Films shot in Japan

2023 film directed by Chad Stahelski

1954 film directed by Ishirō Honda

2022 film directed by David Leitch

2009 film directed by Lasse Hallström

F1 is a 2025 American sports drama film starring Brad Pitt as Formula One (F1) racing driver Sonny Hayes, who returns after a 30-year absence to save his former teammate's underdog team, APXGP, from collapse. The film was directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger. Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, and Javier Bardem also star in supporting roles.

2008 film directed by Yōjirō Takita

2013 film directed by Carl Rinsch

1976 film by Nagisa Ōshima

Sayonara is a 1957 American romantic drama film directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Miiko Taka and Ricardo Montalbán. It tells the story of an American Air Force pilot during the Korean War who falls in love with a famous Japanese dancer. The screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from James A. Michener's 1954 novel.

2016 film directed by Park Chan-wook

1962 film directed by Ishirō Honda

2001 film directed by Renny Harlin

2004 film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura

1964 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara

2020 film directed by Andrew Levitas

1992 non-narrative film

2007 film by François Girard

1984 Japanese action/adventure film by Kōji Yakusho, Koji Hashimoto

1991 film by Alek Keshishian

1964 Japanese science fiction dramatic horror film by Ishirō Honda

1956 film by Daniel Mann

1995 film directed by Gordon Chan

2016 film by Mario Van Peebles

1967 film by Jun Fukuda

2012 film by Peter Webber

2015 film directed by Gus Van Sant

2005 American-Japanese film by Christopher Morrison

1994 Japanese science fiction kaiju film directed by Kenshō Yamashita

2007 film directed by Takashi Miike

1994 film directed by Charles T. Kanganis

1980 miniseries by Jerry London

1999 film by Peter Greenaway

Rental Family is a 2025 comedy-drama film directed by Hikari, who co-wrote it with Stephen Blahut. It stars Brendan Fraser as an American actor based in Japan who begins working for a rental family agency, where he plays roles in the lives of strangers. The supporting cast includes Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Mahina Gorman, and Akira Emoto.

2005 film by Andrew Lau, Alan Mak

series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874

2017 Japanese film directed by Shinichiro Ueda

2017 film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

1995 film by J. F. Lawton

1986 film by Masanori Hata

2011 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

1962 film by Jack Cardiff

2017 film by Fumihiko Sori

2014 Japanese heist film

1992 film by Fred Schepisi

2021 film directed by Keishi Ōtomo

2013 film by Takashi Miike

1968 film by Kinji Fukasaku

1966 Japanese film

2021 film directed by Sion Sono

2025 film by Chie Hayakawa

1995 film by Shunji Iwai

2022 film directed by Kōji Fukada

2021 film directed by Keishi Ōtomo

1966 film by Michel Boisrond

2010 film directed Aparna Sen

2017 film directed by Emilio Insolera

1958 film by Frank Tashlin

1977 film by Junji Kurata

1968 film by Chang Cheh

2019 Japanese film