Films shot in Tokyo

Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with Emma Thomas, his wife. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. The ensemble cast includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao, and Michael Caine.

2003 film directed by Sofia Coppola

2004 film by Roland Emmerich

2006 film directed by Justin Lin

1967 film directed by Lewis Gilbert

2015 film directed by James Wan

2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

2003 film by Quentin Tarantino

1972 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

2013 film directed by James Mangold

2006 film by Clint Eastwood

2018 film by Jon Turteltaub

2010 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2000 film directed by Kinji Fukasaku

1954 film directed by Ishirō Honda

2009 film by Stephen Sommers

1953 Japanese film by Yasujiro Ozu

1957 film by Akira Kurosawa

2008 science fiction film directed by Doug Liman

2018 film directed by David Kerr

2012 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2004 film directed by Takashi Shimizu

1949 film by Akira Kurosawa

2016 film directed by Oliver Stone

2018 film directed by Steven S. DeKnight

2001 film directed by Gérard Krawczyk

1999 film by Takashi Miike

2023 film by Wim Wenders

2006 film by Takashi Shimizu

1962 film directed by Ishirō Honda

2023 film directed by Takashi Yamazaki

2021 film directed by Robert Schwentke

2004 film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura

2009 film directed by Gaspar Noé

2012 film by Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz

2016 film by Hideaki Anno

2002 film directed by Jeff Tremaine

is a 1999 Japanese road drama film written, directed and co-edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in the film with Yusuke Sekiguchi. Its score was composed by Joe Hisaishi. The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

2004 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

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

2008 film by Masayuki Ochiai

2015 film directed by Drake Doremus

2000 film by Edward Yang

2016 film directed by Jason Zada

The Smashing Machine is a 2025 American biographical sports drama film, written and directed by Benny Safdie. It stars Dwayne Johnson as former amateur wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr, alongside Emily Blunt as Kerr's girlfriend, with Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten and Oleksandr Usyk in supporting roles.

1989 Japanese science fiction action film by Kazuki Ómori

1964 Japanese science fiction dramatic horror film by Ishirō Honda

1981 film directed by Terence Young

1974 film by Sydney Pollack

2013 Indian Hindi-language film

1983 film by Chris Marker

2012 film by Peter Webber

2021 film directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan

2013 film directed by Morgan Spurlock

2005 American-Japanese film by Christopher Morrison

2002 film by Takashi Shimizu

2001 film by Sion Sono

1903 film by Tsunekichi Shibata

1949 film by Stuart Heisler

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.