925 Films & TV Shows Set In Japan
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Escapade In Japan
🇯🇵 JapanThe exciting adventures of two little runaway boys in Japan! — A plane on its way to Japan is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A small American boy survives the ditching but is separated from the rest of the passengers and crew and is picked up by a Japanese fisherman, who takes the boy back to his village. The boy is befriended by the fisherman's son, but when they see Japanese police swarming over the village, they are afraid that they've done something wrong and run away, although the police are only searching for the missing boy. Together the two boys travel through the Japanese countryside, trying to avoid the police who are searching for them and meeting up with many different kinds of people along the way.
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Joe Butterfly
Tokyo Prefecture The 1940sThe Uproarious Saga of Those Hilarious Heroes Who Took Tokyo in a Storm of Laughter with their Riotous Operation Kimono! — The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
Mie Prefecture Hokkaido Prefecture The 1980s The 1940sThe story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
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Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
🇯🇵 JapanA remake of Kaidan Saga yashiki (1953).
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Typhoon Over Nagasaki
🇯🇵 JapanPierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko. But Françoise Fabre, a French journalist and Pierre's former lover, contacts him while visiting the Land of the Rising Sun. They meet again, find out their love might not be dead. Meanwhile, Pierre gradually becomes estranged from sweet, humble Noriko. One day, a typhoon strikes Nagasaki...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Tokyo PrefectureIncredible, unstoppable titan of terror! — During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.
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Rodan
Nagasaki Prefecture Kumamoto Prefecture Fukuoka PrefectureBorn from a volcanic crater, the crimson monster bird Rodan tramples the Earth — Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.
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Early Spring
Tokyo PrefectureA young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
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Street of Shame
Tokyo PrefectureMen were their prey! Beauty was their lure! — The personal tales of various sex workers who occupy a Japanese brothel.
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Warning From Space
Tokyo PrefectureThe citizens of Tokyo panic when they see UFOs in the sky. The aliens are benign, however, and have come to warn of a runaway planetoid known as Planet R that's on a collision course with Earth. As Planet R approaches, the Earth's atmosphere begins to heat up, and mankind must race to construct a weapon to destroy it.
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Farewell to Dream
Tokyo PrefectureA coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
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Navy Wife
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives, demand the same from their husbands.
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Godzilla Raids Again
Osaka PrefectureThe great story of the terrifying spirits that rampage through Japan! — Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.
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House of Bamboo
Tokyo PrefectureTokyo Post-War Underworld! — Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Kyoto PrefectureAfter years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.
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The Night My Number Came Up
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇯🇵 JapanAt a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a Royal Navy officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.
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Three Stripes in the Sun
Osaka PrefectureThe Amazing Story of the Fighting Sergeant... and a Girl in a Pink Kimono! — A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.
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Godzilla
Tokyo PrefectureGodzilla, a weapon of science, a great battle of wonder and terror! — Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
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Hell and High Water
Tokyo PrefectureA privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇯🇵 Japan 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sJets Dare Danger Over Korea! — A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
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The Crucified Lovers
Kyoto Prefecture The 17th CenturyThe tortured heart behind the cultivated image. — In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the best worker, Mohei, the pair flee the city and declare their love for each other. Ishun orders his men to find them, and separate them to avoid public humiliation.
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Late Chrysanthemums
🇯🇵 JapanWhat is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts. Even her best friends, Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, who were her fellow Geisha, are now indebted to her. For all of them, the glamor of their young lives has passed; Tomi and Tamae have children, but their children have disappointed them. Kin has two former lovers who still pursue her; one she wants to see, and the other she doesn't. But even the one she remembers fondly, when he shows up, proves to be a disappointment.
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Twenty-Four Eyes
🇯🇵 Japan The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sSchoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming.
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Ditch
Kanagawa PrefectureToku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan. The two men try to get rid of her but then let her stay when she gives them money. Tsuru tells the people of the village that she lost her job due to a strike, then was robbed of her severance pay, then sold to a brothel in Tsuchiura. She ran away with a friend from Kawasaki. Toku and Pin-chan sell her to a geisha house and spend the money. She is thrown out. The owner demands his money back. Tsuru earns the money to pay their debt by working as a prostitute outside the station. The other prostitutes beat her. She fends them off with a policeman's revolver and is then shot dead by the police.
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