50 Films & TV Shows Set In Kanagawa Prefecture
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Around the World in 80 Days
California England 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇮🇳 India 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Kanagawa Prefecture The 1870sEnglish Lord Phileas Fogg has just become the main suspect in a daring bank robbery. Meanwhile, he has made a wager with several other lords that he will be able to travel around this world in a mere 80 days. Joined by his butler Passepartout, Fogg begins his journey. However, hot on his heels is Scotland Yard detective Mr. Fix.
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Tokyo Blackout
Kanagawa PrefectureBased on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Shiga Prefecture Nagano Prefecture Kyoto Prefecture Kanagawa PrefectureDuring his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression on the old man's maid, who apparently falls in love with Tora-san.
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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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Terror of Mechagodzilla
Shizuoka Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture Kanagawa PrefectureMechagodzilla has been resurrected! — A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads biologist Ichinose to uncover the work of Dr. Mafune and his mysterious daughter Katsura. Aligned with the Black Hole Aliens, Katsura's life becomes entwined with the resurrected machine.
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Godzilla vs. Gigan
Tokyo Prefecture Kanagawa PrefectureDefeat the evil space monsters! You can protect the Earth, Godzilla! — Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.
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Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
Kanagawa Prefecture The 1960sIt takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
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All Monsters Attack
Kanagawa PrefectureA Godzilla father-son crisis: the furious new monster Gabara appears, taking aim at the throne of Monster Island! — Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant struggle to make ends meet often leaves the schoolboy alone. Constantly teased by a bully nicknamed "Gabara", his only friends are toy consultant Shinpei and fellow classmate Sachiko. Ichiro turns to escapist dreams of Monster Island where he befriends the equally bullied Minilla.
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Japan Organised Crime Boss
Kanagawa PrefectureComing out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
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Black Rose Mansion
Kanagawa Prefecture Hyōgo PrefectureA feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive men's club, he gets more than he bargains for when she attracts scores of homicidal past lovers. The film takes a bizarre twist when Kyohei's son falls victim to the femme fatale's unique charm.
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Gamera vs. Viras
Tokyo Prefecture Kanagawa PrefectureAs alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien's spaceship, the Scouts are menaced by the evil inhabitants, including Viras, a squid-like monster that grows to colossal size to battle Gamera.
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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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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Tokyo Prefecture Kanagawa PrefectureAtrocious new monster Ebirah! — Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.
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The Kamikaze Guy
🇹🇼 Taiwan Tokyo Prefecture Kanagawa PrefectureAn elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Toyama Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture Nagano Prefecture Kumamoto Prefecture Kanagawa PrefectureSpace Super Monster (King Ghidorah) attacks the Earth! — A meteor lands in Kurobe Valley as detective Shindo is assigned to protect Princess Salno from assassination. She emerges under the guise of a Venusian prophetess and catches the attention of journalist Naoko and Mothra's fairies by predicting a powerful space monster's arrival. The infant Mothra must convince Godzilla and Rodan to set aside their hatred of humanity or face the monster alone.
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Wolves, Pigs & Men
Kanagawa PrefectureDo we stake our lives? — Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is not invited. Jiro meanwhile is planning a big job - steal 40 million in cash and drugs, and he invites Sabu and gang to act as decoys, for 50,000 each. The sting is a success, but the double-crossing starts almost immediately. Sabu discovers how little of the take they were promised and hides the stash. Jiro and his slimy partner pressure the kids to fess up. Meanwhile, their respectable elder brother Ichiro is being leaned on by the town's big boss, whose money it was.
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High and Low
Kanagawa PrefectureFrom Akira Kurosawa, director of "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro" comes a tense, taut film of a modern "perfect crime" with more excitement than even Hitchcock could create. — An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
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Pigs and Battleships
Kanagawa PrefectureIn the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
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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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Early Summer
Kanagawa PrefectureIn postwar Tokyo, Noriko, still single at the advanced age of 28, lives contentedly in an extended family household that includes her parents and her brother's family. An uncle's visit prompts the family to find her a husband.
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Tokyo File 212
Tokyo Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sA dangerous spy net in the powderkeg Orient! — A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
Kanagawa Prefecture The 1880sIn this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.
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Eleventh Hour
Kanagawa PrefectureUsing Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war.
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Oil For The Lamps Of China
🇨🇳 China Kanagawa PrefectureThe FLAMING HELL OF THE LAST FRONTIER — An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
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Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Kanagawa PrefectureSet in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry appears on his motorcycle and offers to take Sunako for a ride, we know that this friendship won't last and that the lives of both girls will change in ways they are barely able to comprehend, and can do little to change.