96 Films & TV Shows Set In Japan During The 21st Century
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Napping Princess
🇯🇵 Japan The 2020sThere's a reason why I can see in dreams — Japan, 2020, a few days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. Although she should be studying for her final exams, Kokone, a schoolgirl who lives in a small town with her widowed father, a mysterious and talented mechanic, falls asleep often, anywhere, anytime, entering, over and over, a dream-world where a squad of fantastic motorized contraptions fights against magic, a world close to reality where she will find out the keys of her true past.
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Honnouji Hotel
🇯🇵 Japan The 16th Century The 2010sIn Kyoto, Mayuko (Haruka Ayase) stands at a crossroad in her life. She's thinking about marriage with her boyfriend Kyoichi (Hiroyuki Hirayama). By an accidental opportunity, Mayuko stays at Honnouji Hotel. There, she meets historical figure Nobunaga Oda (Shinichi Tsutsumi) who is attempting to unify Japan.
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Amiko
Nagano Prefecture The 2010sAmiko, a high school girl, adores Aomi to the point of nearly worshipping him. But one day, he runs away from home. Amiko's sometimes cynical, sometimes self-deprecating inner monologue goes off like vibrant stand-up comedy.
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One Cut of the Dead
🇯🇵 Japan The 2010sDon’t Stop Shooting! — "Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie in an abandoned Japanese World War II facility, when they are attacked by real zombies." Or, that's what it says on the tin, but this is the story of how it really happened...
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London Has Fallen
England New York Nevada District of Columbia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇾🇪 Yemen Tokyo Prefecture 🇵🇭 Philippines The 2010sThe world's leaders have assembled. So have their enemies. — In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
California Florida Wales England Tokyo Prefecture The 2000s The 2010s The 1940sStay peculiar — A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
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Now You See Me 2
🇨🇳 China England New York New Jersey 🇲🇴 Macao Tokyo Prefecture New South Wales The 2010s The 1980sYou haven't seen anything yet. — One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.
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Snowden
Virginia Maryland Georgia Hawaii 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇯🇵 Japan The 2000s The 2010sThe only safe place is on the run. — CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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The Forest
Yamanashi Prefecture The 2010sEveryone comes here looking for a way out — Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
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Rage
Tokyo Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture The 2010sA man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.
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We Are X
🇯🇵 Japan The 1980s The 1990s The 2010sThe music never had to be explained. — As glam rock's most flamboyant survivors, X Japan ignited a musical revolution in Japan during the late '80s with their melodic metal. Twenty years after their tragic dissolution, X Japan’s leader, Yoshiki, battles with physical and spiritual demons alongside prejudices of the West to bring their music to the world.
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A Silent Voice: The Movie
Gifu Prefecture The 2000s The 2010sSometimes the answer is as simple as learning to listen. — Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
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Erased
Hokkaido Prefecture The 1980s The 2000sStruggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.
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Sadako vs. Kayako
🇯🇵 Japan The 2000sWho will win this curse!? — A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki
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Your Lie in April
Tokyo Prefecture The 2000s The 2010sArima Kousei won numerous piano competitions while under the strict watch of his mother. He was known as the human metronome during that time. Since the death of his mother, Kousei has been unable to hear the sound of his piano. He then meets Miyazono Kaori through childhood friend Sawabe Tsubaki. Kaori plays the violin and has a free sprit. Since meeting her, Kousei is able to face the piano again. Meanwhile, Kaori holds a secret.
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Furious 7
California England 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates Tokyo Prefecture The 2010sVengeance Hits Home — Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.
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Spectre
Ciudad de México England 🇻🇦 Holy See 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy Tokyo Prefecture 🇪🇭 Western Sahara 🇲🇦 Morocco Africa - General The 2010sA Plan No One Escapes — A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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The Lion Standing in the Wind
🇰🇪 Kenya Nagasaki Prefecture Miyagi Prefecture The 1970s The 1980s The 2010sKoichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
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The Day the Sun Fell
🇯🇵 Japan The 2010s The 1940sTracing the past of her deceased grandfather who worked as a young doctor in the Red Cross hospital of HirSwiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by tracing the lives of a doctor and of former nurses who once shared the same experience. While gathering the memories and present views of these last survivors, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima strikes and history seems to repeat itself.oshima after the atomic bomb was dropped over the city, the filmmaker encounters doctors and nurses who went through similar experiences to his at the time. Right up until his death in 1991, her grandfather was never able to speak about his experiences, but the formidable stories and openness of her protagonists bring her closer to his past.
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Godzilla
Nevada California Hawaii Tokyo Prefecture 🇵🇭 Philippines Pacific Ocean The 1990s The 1950s The 2010sThe world ends, Godzilla begins. — Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.
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Pacific Rim
California Alaska 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Tokyo Prefecture 🇵🇭 Philippines Pacific Ocean The 2010s The 2020sTo Fight Monsters, We Created Monsters — A ragtag band of humans band together in the year 2025 to fight legions of monstrous creatures rising from the sea. Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes -- a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee -- who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.
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Fast & Furious 6
California England 🇪🇸 Spain 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Tokyo Prefecture Atlantic Ocean The 2010sAll roads lead to this — Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly gets convoluted also facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.
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Tokyo Family
Tokyo Prefecture The 2010sIn this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the Second World War. In his remake, Yamada has made very few departures from Ozu’s masterpiece in order to update the story of ageing couple Shukichi and Tomiko to present day Japan. Once again, the pair decides to leave their quiet lives in the country to pay a visit to their children and grandchildren in Tokyo. Once there, they discover that neither their oldest son, a doctor named Koichi, nor their eldest daughter Shigeko - who runs a beauty parlour - has time for them: both are too busy attending to their everyday concerns. Even the youngest son went his own way. The old couple feel lonely and bewildered in the fast-paced metropolis.
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Gatchaman
Tokyo Prefecture The 2050sBy the year 2050 AD, a mysterious organization called Galactor has occupied half of the Earth and threatens to exterminate the human race. Around the same time, the International Science Organization had uncovered mysterious stones that bear unusual powers. It is said that one person out of approximately eight million is able to harness the power of the stones; they are known as a "Receptor". Dr. Kozaburo Nambu gathers a team of these five lucky Receptors together. Known as the "Gatchaman" team, it is their mission to defeat Galactor.
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Reunion
Iwate Prefecture The 2010sThe Movie depicts 10 days after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. At a morgue house in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, the workers treat the dead with dignity as they hand over the bodies to their families. Retired funeral worker (Toshiyuki Nishida), finds himself volunteering at the morgue house.
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