Do you know the films made by Americans and other countries that portray or take place in Japan? Want to know if a certain scene was actually shot in Japan? Want to find western movies about Japan? This article will help.
Today we will see a complete list of foreign films that were shot in Japan. Where the vast majority really deals with a história do Japão, without the lack of expected stereotypes. I hope you enjoy the article.
This photo above belongs to the movie Lost in Translation, where we have previously written about this film in an article and video by my friend Roberto Pedraça. The movie presents a stereotypical view of Japan by Westerners, but it portrays it accurately.
Foreign Films Filmed in Japan
See below for a complete list of the film's name, year of release, directors and stars of the film.
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| Movie | Year | directors | Stars |
| 3 Ninjas: Kickback | 1994 | Charles T. Ganganis | Victor Wong and Max Elliot Slade |
| 47 Ronin | 2013 | Carl Rinsch | Keanu Reeves and Hiroyuki Sanada |
| Around the World in Eightty Days | 1956 | Michael Anderson | David Niven and Cantinflas |
| Atout Coeur to Tokyo Pour Oss 117 | 1966 | Michel Boisrond | Frederick Stafford and Marina Vlady |
| Babel | 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal |
| De volta ao Front. | 1952 | George Sherman | Tom Ewell and Harvey Lembeck |
| Black Rain | 1989 | Ridley Scott | Michael Douglas and Ken Takakura |
| Blood on the Sun | 1945 | Frank Lloyd | James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney |
| Bushido Blade | 1981 | Shusei Kotani | Timothy Patrick Murphy and Frank Converse |
| Lumiere Cafe | 2003 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Yo Hitoto and Tadanobu Asano |
| Cold Fever | 1995 | Friðrik Þór Friðriksson | Masatoshi Nagase and Lili Taylor |
| Earthquake Bird | 2019 | Wash Westmoreland | Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough |
| Emperor | 2012 | Peter Webber | Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones |
| Enlightenment Guaranteed | 2000 | Doris Dörrie | Uwe Ochsenknecht and Gustav-Peter Wöhler |
| Enter the Void | 2009 | Gaspar Noé | Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta |
| escape in japan | 1957 | Arthur Lubin | Cameron Mitchell and Jon Provost |
| Fear and Trembling | 2003 | Alain Corneau | Sylvie Testud and Kaori Tsuji |
| Godzilla | 2014 | Gareth Edwards | Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ken Watanabe |
| Gun Ho | 1986 | Ron Howard | Michael Keaton |
| House of Bamboo | 1955 | Samuel Fuller | Robert Ryan and Robert Stack |
| Para o Sol | 2005 | Christopher Morrison | Steven Seagal and Matt Davis |
| Ilha dos Cães | 2018 | Wes Anderson | Bryan Cranston and Edward Norton |
| Jack London | 1943 | Alfred Santell | Michael O'Shea |
| Japanil Kalyanaraman | 1985 | SP Muthuraman | Kamal Haasan and Radha |
| Kill Bill vol. 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu |
| Cartas de Iwo Jima | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | Ken Watanabe e Kazunari Ninomiya |
| Perdido na tradução | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson |
| Mastermind | 1976 | Alex March | Zero Mostel and Keiko Kishi |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | 2005 | Rob Marshall | Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li |
| Mishima: Life in Four Chapters | 1985 | Paul Schrader | Ken Ogata e Masayuki Shionoya |
| Monster | 2008 | Eric Forsberg | Sarah Lieving and Erin Evans |
| Mr. Baseball | 1992 | Fred Schepisi | Tom Selleck and Ken Takakura |
| My Geisha | 1962 | Jack Cardiff | Shirley MacLaine and Yves Montand |
| Navy Wife | 1956 | Edward Bernds | |
| Nobody's Perfect | Alan Rafkin | ||
| Okinawa Rendez-vous | Gordon Chan | ||
| Oriental Evil | George P. Breakston | ||
| Rhapsody in August | 1991 | Akira Kurosawa | Richard Gere and Sachiko Murase |
| Sayonara | 1957 | Joshua Logan | Marlon Brando and Miiko Taka |
| Scooby Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Christopher Berkeley | ||
| Shogun | 1980 | Jerry London | Richard Chamberlain and Toshirō Mifune |
| Stopover Tokyo | 1957 | Richard L. Breen | Robert Wagner and Joan Collins |
| Stratosphere Girl | 2004 | Matthias X. Oberg | Chloé Winkel |
| Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo | 2006 | ||
| The Bad News Bears Go to Japan | 1978 | John Berry | Tony Curtis and Jackie Earle Haley |
| The Barbarian and the Geisha | 1958 | John Huston | John Wayne and Eiko Ando |
| The Challenge | 1982 | John Frankenheimer | Scott Glenn and Toshirō Mifune |
| The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift | 2006 | Justin Lin | Lucas Black and Bow Wow |
| The Grudge | 2004 | Takashi Shimizu | Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jason Behr |
| The Hunted | 1995 | JF Lawton | Christopher Lambert |
| The Karate Kid 2 | 1986 | John Avildsen | Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita |
| O Último Samurai | 2003 | Edward Zwick | Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe |
| A Garota do Ramen | 2009 | Robert Allan Ackerman | Brittany Murphy and Sohee Park |
| O Mar de Árvores | 2015 | Gus Van Sant | Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe |
| A Casa do Chá da Lua de Agosto | 1956 | Daniel Mann | Marlon Brandon and Glenn Ford |
| The Wolverine | 2013 | James Mangold | Hugh Jackman and Hiroyuki Sanada |
| The Yakuza | 1975 | Sydney Pollack | Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura |
| Tokyo Eyes | 1998 | Jean-Pierre Limosin | Shinji Takeda and Hinano Yoshikawa |
| Tokyo Fiancée | 2014 | Belgian and Stefan Liberski | |
| Tokyo Joe | 1949 | Stuart Heisler | Humphrey Bogart and Alexander Knox |
| Tokyo Pop | 1988 | Fran Rubel Kuzui | Carrie Hamilton and Diamond Yukai |
| Tokyo! | 2008 | Michel Gondry | Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho |
| Log! Log! Log! | 1970 | Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku | Martin Balsam and Soh Yamamura |
| Typhon sur Nagasaki | 1957 | Yves Ciampi | Jean Marais and Danielle Darrieux |
| Walk Don't Run (1966 | Charles Walters | Jim Hutton | |
| Wasabi | 2001 | Gérard Krawczyk | Jean Reno and Ryoko Hirosue |
| Yoshiwara | Max Ophüls | ||
| You Only Live Twice | 1967 | Lewis Gilbert | Sean Connery and Akiko Wakabayashi |