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Famous Directors Visit Japan

Famous non-Japanese filmmakers who made one film set in Japan. Surprisingly common.

See also:
Directors Visit China | Directors Visit India

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  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • Enter the Void
  • Sans Soleil
  • Lost in Translation
  • Like Someone in Love
  • Isle of Dogs
  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  • Silence
  • The Sea of Trees
  • The Sun
  • Manhunt
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  • Tokyo!
  • Letters from Iwo Jima
  • Family Romance, LLC
  • The Yakuza
  • Tokyo-Ga
  • The Wolverine
  • Babel
  • Black Rain
  • House of Bamboo
  • Anatahan
  • Hell in the Pacific
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • The Last Samurai
  • Sayonara
  • You Only Live Twice
  • La moglie giapponese
  • Café Lumière
  • Samurai Marathon
  • Young Pines
  • Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
  • Cherry Blossoms
  • Island of Loves
  • Perfect Days
  • Norwegian Wood
  • The Barbarian and the Geisha
  • Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
  • Unbroken
  • Bullet Train
  • Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
  • The Toxic Avenger Part II