16 Films & TV Shows Set In Yamanashi Prefecture
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The Sea of Trees
Yamanashi PrefectureLove will bring you home. — A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
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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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Grave Halloween
Yamanashi PrefectureNo one survives in the suicide forest. — After inadvertently unleashing an ancient curse, a documentary crew of American exchange students is haunted by angry spirits in Japan's infamous Suicide Forest.
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The Forest
Yamanashi PrefectureDeath... is just the beginning. — By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her. .
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Godzilla: Final Wars
New York Arizona British Columbia 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇬 Egypt Shanghai Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture New South Wales 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 🇦🇶 Antarctica Pacific OceanFarewell, Godzilla. — Humanity final rids themselves of Godzilla, in-prisoning him in an icy tomb at the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Yamanashi Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture Niigata Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture Kagoshima Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 2000s The 1950sThe God of Destruction Godzilla lands in Japan! — Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.
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Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Ibaraki Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 2000sGodzilla disappears. — In an alternate timeline the original Godzilla is never defeated and repeatedly reemerges to feed on Japan's energy sources. A new inter-dimensional weapon called the Dimension Tide is created with the intent of eliminating Godzilla. However, the new weapon might also serve as a gateway to something far more sinister.
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Rebirth of Mothra III
Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Kyoto Prefecture Aichi Prefecture The 1990sThe strongest enemy, the final transformation. — To save the world, Mothra goes back in time in an attempt to defeat a younger King Ghidorah.
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Memories
Yamanashi PrefectureIn this anime anthology, a salvage ship crew happens upon a haunted vessel in "Magnetic Rose"; a cold tablet turns a lab worker into a biological weapon in "Stink Bomb"; and an urban populace carries on an endless war with an unseen foe in "Cannon Fodder."
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Kagemusha
Yamanashi Prefecture The 16th CenturyAkira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
Yamanashi Prefecture The 1970sFrom appetizer to dessert - One town becomes a monster meal. — A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.
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The Castle of Sand
Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Shimane Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Ishikawa Prefecture Akita PrefectureTwo detectives are tasked to investigate the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard.
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Destroy All Monsters
New York 🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia The Moon Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture The 1990sThe mysterious Kilaaks appear! Shaking the universe, the great battle of 11 monsters! — At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.
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Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Tochigi Prefecture Shizuoka PrefectureAn expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
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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.
