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While Japan has a long and distinguished history in filmmaking, it has provided an exotic and cosmopolitan backdrop to many international films set mostly or entirely in Japan. A common theme of foreign films set in Japan is the differences between Japanese and Western culture and how the characters cope with their new surroundings.

This list is of foreign films set in Japan.

:For Japanese films made in Japan see List of Japanese language films
:See also List of movies, manga, anime, and television shows that take place in Tokyo

A

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956
) — directed by Michael Anderson, starring David Niven
and Cantinflas
Austin Powers in Goldmember
(2002
) — directed by Jay Roach
, starring Mike Myers
, Beyoncé Knowles
, and Michael Caine

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
Black Rain (1989
) — directed by Ridley Scott, starring Michael Douglas
and Ken Takakura
Bushido Blade
(1981
) — directed by Shusei Kotani, starring Timothy Patrick Murphy and Frank Converse

The Challenge (1982
) — directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Scott Glenn
and Toshiro Mifune
Cold Fever
(1995
) — directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, starring Masatoshi Nagase
and Lili Taylor

D

E

Enlightenment Guaranteed
(2000
) — directed by Doris Dörrie, starring Uwe Ochsenknecht and Gustav-Peter Wöhler
Escapade in Japan (1957
) — directed by Arthur Lubin, starring Cameron Mitchell and Jon Provost

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