14 Films & TV Shows Set In Aichi Prefecture
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Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet
Aichi PrefectureAt the opening ceremony of the WSG (World Sports Games) Tokyo Games, a sports festival held once every four years, it is announced that the world's first vacuum superconducting maglev with a maximum speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour will open. While attracting attention from around the world, top executives of large companies are kidnapped from the party venue where WSG tournament sponsors gather. Conan moves toward a solution and eventually finds a connection with the WSG abduction case that occurred 15 years ago in Boston, USA.
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A Whisker Away
Aichi PrefectureMiyo "Muge" Sasaki is a peculiar second-year junior high student who has fallen in love with her classmate Kento Hinode. Muge resolutely pursues Kento every day, but he takes no notice of her. Nevertheless, while carrying a secret she can tell no one, Muge continues to pursue Kento. Muge discovers a magic mask that allows her to transform into a cat named Tarō. The magic lets Muge get close to Kento, but eventually it may also make her unable to transform back to a human.
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Gamera the Brave
Mie Prefecture Aichi Prefecture The 1970sGamera for the boys, the boys for Gamera! — A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle that grows into a new version of Gamera. But will it become powerful enough in time to defeat the rampaging monster Zedus?
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Rebirth of Mothra III
Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Kyoto Prefecture Aichi Prefecture The 1990sThe strongest enemy, the final transformation. — To save the world, Mothra goes back in time in an attempt to defeat a younger King Ghidorah.
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The Hunted
Aichi PrefectureHe's trapped in a world where killing is an art and revenge is an obsession — Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of danger and intrigue after he and his sexy companion are the targets of assassins hired by the ruthless Kinjo. To survive, Racine must join forces with a powerful samurai and together they will fight the force of evil in an awesome battle rooted in centuries of brutal conflict.
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Mr. Baseball
Aichi PrefectureHe's the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla! — Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
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Godzilla vs. Mothra
Tokyo Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture Aichi Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 1990sEarth S.O.S.! The battle over the future of the human race begins. — Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Aichi PrefectureMitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi’s mother befriends Tora-san and together they travel to Oita to meet them, with Tora-san quickly falling for her en route.
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Gamera: Super Monster
Toyama Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Shiga Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture Hyōgo Prefecture Aichi PrefectureA titanic struggle for supremacy as starship Zanon invades the planet Earth! — As a massive alien craft heads to Earth to do evil, three good and powerful superwomen befriend a young boy who has a special connection to Gamera. The alien Zanon launches a battery of familiar foes against Gamera, who might have to give the ultimate sacrifice to defeat the alien invader.
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Aichi PrefectureAfter winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.
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Gamera vs. Gyaos
Shizuoka Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture Aichi PrefectureGiant Monster Dogfight — Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance with Gamera; a monster no one else seems to trust.
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
Mie Prefecture Aichi Prefecture The 1960sThe sky, sea, and land quake in the fierce battle of the century — Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.
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The Secret of the Telegian
Tokyo Prefecture Nagano Prefecture Aichi PrefectureHere Comes the TELEGIAN!! The World is Terrorized. — Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.
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Bombardier
New Mexico Aichi Prefecture The 1940sSee the bombing of Tokyo before your very eyes — A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
