5 Films & TV Shows Set In Toyama Prefecture

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  OVER DRIVE

  🇮🇳 India Toyama Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Gunma Prefecture Fukuoka Prefecture 🇲🇾 Malaysia

  At the SCRS (Seiko Cup Rally Series), talented young drivers hope to advance to the WRC (World Rally Championship). Atsuhiro Hiyama (Masahiro Higashide) is the chief mechanic and an engineer at Supika Racing Factory. He is well regarded by his peers. His younger brother is Naozumi (Mackenyu Arata). He is an extremely gifted driver for Supika Racing Factory, but he is also a troublemaker. They continually argue because of Naozumi's reckless racing style. One day, Hikaru Endo (Aoi Morikawa) becomes his manager. --asianwiki

  Released in 2018 • 104 minutes
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  Wolf Children

  Toyama Prefecture

  Love wildly — After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.

  Released in 2012 • 117 minutes
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  Gamera: Super Monster

  Toyama Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Shiga Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture Hyōgo Prefecture Aichi Prefecture

  A 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.

  Released in 1980 • 92 minutes
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  Gamera vs. Barugon

  Toyama Prefecture Shiga Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Hyōgo Prefecture 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea

  Gamera burns the streets of Osaka in an instant! Barugon freezes Osaka Castle with a single gust! An underwater clash at Lake Biwa! — Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

  Released in 1966 • 106 minutes
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  Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

  Toyama Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture Nagano Prefecture Kumamoto Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture

  Space 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.

  Released in 1964 • 92 minutes