# List of foreign films set in Japan

The following is a list of foreign films set in Japan. Japan has provided an exotic and cosmopolitan backdrop to many international films set mostly or entirely in Japan. A common theme of western films set in Japan is the differences between Japanese and Western culture and how the characters cope with their new surroundings.
* 3 Ninjas: Kick Back (1994) — directed by Charles T. Ganganis, starring Victor Wong and Max Elliot Slade
* 47 Ronin (2013) — directed by Carl Rinsch, starring Keanu Reeves and Hiroyuki Sanada
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* Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) — directed by Michael Anderson, starring David Niven and Cantinflas
* Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 (1966) — directed by Michel Boisrond, starring Frederick Stafford and Marina Vlady
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* Babel (2006) — directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael García Bernal
* Back at the Front (1952) — directed by George Sherman, starring Tom Ewell and Harvey Lembeck
* The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978) — directed by John Berry, starring Tony Curtis and Jackie Earle Haley
* The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) — directed by John Huston, starring John Wayne and Eiko Ando
* Batman Ninja (2018) — directed by Junpei Mizusaki, starring Kōichi Yamadera
* Big Hero 6 (2014) — directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, starring Scott Adsit and Ryan Potter
* Black Rain (1989) — directed by Ridley Scott, starring Michael Douglas and Ken Takakura
* Blood on the Sun (1945) — directed by Frank Lloyd, starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney
* Bullet Train (2022) — directed by David Leitch, starring Brad Pitt
* Bushido Blade (1981) — directed by Shusei Kotani, starring Timothy Patrick Murphy and Frank Converse
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* Café Lumière (2003) – directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
* Cars 2 (2011) — directed by John Lasseter, starring Owen Wilson
* The Challenge (1982) — directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Scott Glenn and Toshirō Mifune
* Cold Fever (1995) — directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, starring Masatoshi Nagase and Lili Taylor
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* Earthquake Bird (2019) — directed by Wash Westmoreland, starring Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough
* Emperor (2012) — directed by Peter Webber, starring Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones
* Enlightenment Guaranteed (2000) — directed by Doris Dörrie, starring Uwe Ochsenknecht and Gustav-Peter Wöhler
* Enter the Void (2009) — directed by Gaspar Noé, starring Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta
* Escapade in Japan (1957) — directed by Arthur Lubin, starring Cameron Mitchell and Jon Provost
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* Fast & Furious 6 (2013) — directed by Justin Lin, starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker
* The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) — directed by Justin Lin, starring Lucas Black and Bow Wow
* Fear and Trembling (2003) — directed by Alain Corneau, starring Sylvie Testud and Kaori Tsuji
* Flags of Our Fathers (2006) — directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Ryan Phillippe and Jesse Bradford
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* Godzilla (2014) — directed by Gareth Edwards, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ken Watanabe
* The Grudge (2004) — directed by Takashi Shimizu, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jason Behr
* Gung Ho (1986) — directed by Ron Howard, starring Michael Keaton
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* Hacksaw Ridge (2016) — directed by Mel Gibson, starring Andrew Garfield and Sam Worthington
* The Handmaiden (2016) — directed by Park Chan-wook, starring Kim Min-hee and Kim Tae-ri
* House of Bamboo (1955) — directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Robert Ryan and Robert Stack
* The Hunted (1995) — directed by J.F. Lawton, starring Christopher Lambert
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* Into the Sun (2005) — directed by Christopher Morrison, starring Steven Seagal and Matt Davis
* Isle of Dogs (2018) — directed by Wes Anderson, starring Bryan Cranston and Edward Norton
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* Jack London (1943) — directed by Alfred Santell, starring Michael O'Shea
* Japanil Kalyanaraman (1985) — directed by S.P. Muthuraman, starring Kamal Haasan and Radha
* John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) — directed by Chad Stahelski, starring Keanu Reeves and Donnie Yen
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* The Karate Kid 2 (1986) — directed by John Avildsen, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita
* Kill Bill vol. 1 (2003) — directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu
* Kate (2021) — directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Woody Harrelson
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* The Last Samurai (2003) — directed by Edward Zwick, starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe
* Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) — directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya
* Lost in Translation (2003) — directed by Sofia Coppola, starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson
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* Mastermind (1976) — directed by Alex March, starring Zero Mostel and Keiko Kishi
* The Matrix Resurrections (2021) — directed by Lana Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss
* Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) — directed by Rob Marshall, starring Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li
* Minamata (2020) — directed by Andrew Levitas, starring Johnny Depp and Hiroyuki Sanada
* Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) — directed by Paul Schrader, starring Ken Ogata and Masayuki Shionoya
* Mr. Baseball (1992) — directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Tom Selleck and Ken Takakura
* Mr. Holmes (2015) — directed by Bill Condon, starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney
* Monster (2008) — directed by Eric Forsberg, starring Sarah Lieving and Erin Evans
* Mortal Kombat (2021) — directed by Simon McQuoid, starring Lewis Tan and Jessica McNamee
* My Geisha (1962) — directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Shirley MacLaine and Yves Montand
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* Navy Wife (1956) — directed by Edward Bernds
* Nobody's Perfect — directed by Alan Rafkin
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* Okinawa Rendez-vous — directed by Gordon Chan
* Oriental Evil — directed by George P. Breakston
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* The Pacific (2010), miniseries — starring James Badge Dale and Jon Seda
* Pearl Harbor (2001) — directed by Michael Bay, starring Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett
* People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan (2021) — directed by Jack Clough, starring Alan Mustafa and Hugo Chegwin
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* The Ramen Girl (2009) — directed by Robert Allan Ackerman, starring Brittany Murphy and Sohee Park
* Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) — directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, starring Milla Jovovich
* Rush (2013) — directed by Ron Howard, starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl
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* Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) — directed by Allan Dwan, starring John Wayne and John Agar
* Sayonara (1957) — directed by Joshua Logan, starring Marlon Brando and Miiko Taka
* Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword — directed by Christopher Berkeley
* The Sea of Trees (2015) — directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe
* The Sea Wolf (1930) — directed by Alfred Santell, starring Milton Sills
* The Secret Game (1917) — directed by William C. de Mille, starring Sessue Hayakawa
* Shōgun (1980), miniseries — directed by Jerry London, starring Richard Chamberlain and Toshirō Mifune
* Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021) — directed by Robert Schwentke, starring Henry Golding and Andrew Koji
* Stopover Tokyo (1957) — directed by Richard L. Breen, starring Robert Wagner and Joan Collins
* Stratosphere Girl (2004) — directed by Matthias X. Oberg, starring Chloé Winkel
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* The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) — directed by Daniel Mann, starring Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford
* Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006)
* Tokyo! (2008) — directed by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho
* Tokyo Eyes (1998) — directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin, starring Shinji Takeda and Hinano Yoshikawa
* Tokyo Fiancée (2014) — Belgian film written and directed by Stefan Liberski
* Tokyo Joe (1949) — directed by Stuart Heisler, starring Humphrey Bogart and Alexander Knox
* Tokyo Pop (1988) — directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui, starring Carrie Hamilton and Diamond Yukai
* Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) — directed by Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku, starring Martin Balsam and Soh Yamamura
* Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957) — directed by Yves Ciampi, starring Jean Marais and Danielle Darrieux
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* Walk Don't Run (1966) — directed by Charles Walters, starring Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton
* Wasabi (2001) — directed by Gérard Krawczyk, starring Jean Reno and Ryōko Hirosue
* The Wolverine (2013) — directed by James Mangold, starring Hugh Jackman and Hiroyuki Sanada
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* The Yakuza (1975) — directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura
* Yoshiwara — directed by Max Ophüls
* You Only Live Twice (1967) — directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Sean Connery and Akiko Wakabayashi
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