925 Films & TV Shows Set In Japan
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The Human Vapor
Tokyo PrefectureA librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a beautiful dancer. The Human Vapour is ruthless in his quest for money and kills anyone who stands in his way, especially police. He soon becomes Tokyo's most wanted criminal. Can he be stopped before he kills again?
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The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond
🇯🇵 JapanTwo lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ago, there had been a crime, whose shadow still hovers over these places.
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Trip for Tat
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇯🇵 JapanTweety Bird goes on a world tour with his mistress, Granny. And a hungry Sylvester Cat follows them everywhere they go (France, Japan, Switzerland, and Italy).
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Satan's Sword
🇯🇵 Japan The 19th CenturyThe Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazatos unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Tsuke Ryunosuke, a nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good.
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sFrom the measureless depths of a woman's emotions... — The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
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The Manster
🇯🇵 JapanHalf-Man, Half-Monster! — A reporter is sent to interview a scientist working in his mountain laboratory.
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Odd Obsession
🇯🇵 JapanA middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
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Floating Weeds
Mie PrefectureA troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes Komajuro is his uncle. The leading actress Sumiko is jealous and so, in order to humiliate the master, persuades the younger actress Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi.
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Battle in Outer Space
The Moon Tokyo Prefecture The 1960sWill the Earth be reduced to space dust? A giant battle unfolds on the other side of the moon! — In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and control the minds of men. In response, a global council meeting is held to determine the source of the attacks and prepare a rocket ship armada for a counter-attack, a true battle in outer space. . . The film is a sequel of sorts to Toho's THE MYSTERIANS in the reprise of the Etsuko Shiraishi character of that film as its heroine. It was edited to 74 minutes for its American release.
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Tokyo After Dark
Tokyo PrefectureAn American serviceman stationed in Tokyo, who's engaged to a local singer, faces both a military court-martial and a trial in the Japanese courts after an accidental shooting in which a teenager is killed.
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The Song of the Cart
Hiroshima PrefectureA lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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The Geisha Boy
🇯🇵 JapanMORE THAN GREAT COMEDY HERE'S GREAT ENTERTAINMENT — Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
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The H-Man
Tokyo Prefecture Pacific OceanPeople are dissolving! The horror of a flowing radioactive liquid! — Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
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The Barbarian and the Geisha
🇯🇵 Japan The 1850sThe geisha girl they sent to love and to destroy the barbarian from the west! — Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.
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Torpedo Run
Alaska 🇯🇵 JapanThe greatest submarine picture of them all! — A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
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Black Cat Mansion
🇯🇵 Japan The 20th Century The 16th Century The 15th CenturyThe descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
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The Lady Takes a Flyer
🇯🇵 JapanChange of pace comedy casts Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler as competing pilots who fall in love.
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Varan
Tokyo PrefectureA giant monster greater than Godzilla or Rodan! Exercising its power over the whole of Japan! — When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. However, when they get there they find an uncharted lake and as they are observing it they are caught in a landslide and killed. A reporter named Yuriko, the sister of one of the men decides to go to the area to find out what exactly happened. She is accompanied by another entomologist named Kenji and a reporter named Horiguchi. When they get to the village where the men were last seen alive they find out about a legend regarding a giant monster. They soon find out that it is not a legend and the monster named Varan is very much alive. Soon Varan leaves the valley where he has lived for millions of years and is heading for Tokyo.
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Sayonara
🇯🇵 Japan 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..." — Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
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The Mysterians
Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Tochigi Prefecture Shizuoka PrefectureSpace weapons mobilize! — In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
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The Teahouse of the August Moon
Okinawa Prefecture The 1940sAll The Riotous Fun Of The Prize-Winning Stage Comedy! — An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.
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Tokyo Twilight
Tokyo PrefectureTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.
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Stopover Tokyo
Tokyo PrefectureAn American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.
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