Films in this library shot in Japan, a national cinema of enormous influence, and a location shot on its own terms. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
EnglandAround the World in 80 Days (1956) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Mike Todd shot the Verne novel in six countries with about forty recognizable faces in one-scene appearances, invented the modern cameo, and beat Giant…
JapanOne Cut of the Dead (2017) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The first thirty-seven minutes are a bad zombie film shot in one take, and the remaining hour explains every mistake in it. Made for about…
Japan
JapanKurosawa's 1958 medieval adventure. Mifune as general, two bumbling peasants.
JapanYoji Yamada's 2002 late-Edo samurai drama. Hiroyuki Sanada as widowed petty officer.
China2012 Sam Mendes Bond film with Craig facing Javier Bardem. M's past returns, Bond's Scottish childhood home, Adele theme song.
Bahamas1977 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Moore teamed with Soviet agent Barbara Bach against Stromberg. The Spy Who Loved Me is Lewis Gilbert's 1977 British spy film.
Bahamas1967 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Connery in Japan facing Blofeld in a hollow volcano. You Only Live Twice is Lewis Gilbert's 1967 British spy film loosely adapting Ian Fleming's 1964 novel.
Japan
JapanKurosawa's 1985 King Lear in feudal Japan. Three-hour battle epic with armies of 1,400 extras.
JapanKurosawa's 1957 Macbeth set in feudal Japan. The arrow finale is among the most committed practical-effects sequences ever filmed.
JapanKurosawa's 1961 samurai-noir. Mifune as the masterless ronin who plays two factions against each other.
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