Movies and TV shows set in tokyo
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in tokyo ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, touching, stylized, melancholic, visually appealing and weird films and TV shows about / with storytelling, runaway, loneliness, dialogue, mentor, friendship, catastrophe, vengeance, violence and life philosophy plots mostly in Drama, Animation and Action genres shot in Japan, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as tokyo: Lost in Translation (2003), Adrift in Tokyo (2007), Enter the Void (2009), Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020), Alice in Borderland (2020), Tokyo! (2008), Ghost in the Shell (2017), The Ramen Girl (2008), Wasabi (2001), The Wolverine (2013).
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List of movies set in tokyo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, intellectual, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, friendship, character study, alienation, fish out of water, melancholy, unlikely couple, actor, hotel room ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, yale university, america ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Leading a lazy life, Fumiya has been a university student for 8 years and owes money to loan sharks. One day, a man named Fukuhara comes to collect the loan, which Fumiya cannot pay. So Fukuhara makes a proposition: He will cancel the debt as long ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, light, psychological ...
Plot:
city life, loan, confession, on the road, walking, regret, gangster, yakuza, friendship, teenager, flashback, cafe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, east asia, asia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style:
psychedelic, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, stripper, afterlife, trippy, drug trip, lsd, sex scene, hallucination, life after death, incest, abortion, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels.
Style:
erotic, depressing, psychological, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
foreigner in japan, erotica, asian man white woman relationship, strong sexual content, female nudity, interracial sex, looking for sex, looking for love, sex, interracial love, fetish, identity crisis ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to survive.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, dorama, psychological, witty ...
Plot:
survival, game, game of death, fight, danger, violence, quest, mercilessness, psychology, courage, team, friendship ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan
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13K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Japan, South Korea, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Tokyo! is an anthology of three short films by directors Michel Gondry (France), Leos Carax (France) and Joon-ho Bong (Korea), each of whom offers an imaginative and transnatural/supernatural glimpse into the Tokyo Megapolis.
Style:
anthology, surreal, art house, cerebral, dark comedy ...
Plot:
male nudity, city life, surrealism, obsession, imagination, isolation, depression, freak, drug, creativity, fall in love, vengeance ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia, paris france, new jersey ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong, Canada, India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, cerebral, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, female protagonist, robot, technology, distopia, hacker, dystopia, tough girl, androids, chase ...
Time:
future, year 2017, near future, 2010s, year 2011
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
Style:
teen, feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
cooking, food, restaurant, culture clash, american abroad, mentor, interracial romance, language barrier, chef, cooking and food, foreigner in japan, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia, new jersey
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45K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his ...
Style:
funny, realistic, exciting, semi serious, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
yakuza, father daughter relationship, police brutality, justice, lone hero, culture clash, japanese mafia, mafia, youth, inheritance, tough guy, bank robbery ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, france, paris france, asia ...
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521K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
Style:
exciting, tense, epic, intense, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, chick flick
Plot:
superhuman powers, superhero, immortality, chase, supernatural ability, avenger, mutant, comic book, fight scenes, x men, comic hero, yakuza ...
Time:
future, year 2013, 2010s, year 1945
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, canada, seattle
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384K
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must ...
Style:
anime, touching, melancholic, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot:
time travel, body swapping, beautiful scenery, plot twist, destiny, school, love story, girl, friendship, schoolgirl, love, memory loss ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2013, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
tokyo, japan, east asia
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and ...
Style:
anime, touching, sweet, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
rain, shoemaker, youth, overcoming, unlikely couple, age difference, young lovers, teenage life, grownups, relationships, shyness, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After the Second Impact, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by giant creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind. The child Shinji's objective is to fight the Angels by piloting one of the mysterious Evangelion mecha units. A remake of the ...
Style:
mecha, atmospheric, anime, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
androids and robots, artificial intelligence, female warrior, chaos, angel, battles, supernatural, save the world, parent child relationship, dystopian future, imaginary, man versus machine ...
Time:
near future
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Style:
touching, depressing, atmospheric, gloomy, bleak ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
poverty, childhood, children, young kid, child abandonment, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, innocence lost, responsibility, neglect, jailbait, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia, california ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ryûhei Sasaki (Teruyuki Kagawa) is keeping a secret from his wife, Megumi (Kyôko Koizumi), and his two teenage sons. Even though he leaves the house every day, he's not really going to work. He's going to an employment office. He ...
Style:
lyrical, talky, stylized, serious, touching ...
Plot:
unemployment, alienation, rebellion, youth, hopes, chinawoman, job seeking, housewife, layoff, family secret, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, east asia, asia, china ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, China
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hodaka, a high school boy who moves from his isolated island home to the city of Tokyo, who immediately becomes broke! After finally finding work at a shady occult magazine, the sky rains every day until amidst the hustle and bustle of the big city, ...
Style:
anime, touching, exciting, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
weather, friendship, fall in love, love, magic, teenager, girl, couples, magical girl, magical power, climate change, flood ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to ...
Style:
anime, psychological, touching, tragic ending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorist bombing, conspiracy, terrorism, orphan, tragic hero, hacker, tragedy, childhood friend, death of protagonist, police, human experiment, terrorist ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins ...
Style:
anime, atmospheric, philosophical, futuristic, mind bending ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, hacker, female protagonist, cyborgs, dystopia, policewoman, distopia, female spy, chase, hacking ...
Time:
future, near future, 90s, year 1995, 2020s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill and other members of their assassination circle – but 'The Bride' lives to plot her vengeance. Setting out for some payback, she makes a death list and hunts down those who ...
Style:
visually appealing, spectacular, tense, visually stunning, action packed ...
Audience:
girls' night, manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, martial arts, mentor, female protagonist, one man army, heroine, yakuza, fight, sword, dark hero, female warrior ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 90s, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, austin texas, texas, persia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Ken Kaneki is a bookworm college student who meets a girl names Rize at a cafe he frequents. They're the same age and have the same interests, so they quickly become close. Little does Kaneki know that Rize is a ghoul - a kind of monster that ...
Style:
anime, dark fantasy, exciting, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, murder, supernatural ability, danger, deadly creature, youth, secret identity, friends, survival, heroes, genetically altered, hunt down ...
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia, east asia
Is relevant?
224K
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style:
anime, futuristic, surreal, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, teenager, protest, dystopia, body horror, psychic power, military, experiment, hallucination ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
university, cheerleader, dating, student, dancing, public, father son relationship, flirting, getting home, asian, friendship, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1987
Place:
tokyo, japan, tanzania
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
One Christmas Eve three people, a middle-aged alcoholic named Gin, a former drag queen Hana and a dependent runaway girl Miyuki, discover an abandoned newborn while looking through the garbage.
Style:
touching, emotional, anime, witty, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick
Plot:
holiday, christmas, homeless, transgender, baby, friends, parents and children, friendship, melancholy, lgbt, runaway, loneliness ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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328K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France, Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style:
emotional, breathtaking, inspirational, sincere, cerebral ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, redemption, woman urinating, cultural difference, deaf girl, desert, mexican border, sex, death, destiny, language barrier, multiple perspectives ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, erotic drama ...
Plot:
couples, city life, lifestyle, singleness, strong female presence, prostitute, female sexuality, prostitution, sex work, loneliness, isolation, sexually liberated ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Is relevant?
9K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
Nana is a 2006 anime series based upon the manga of the same name. It centers on two girls with the same name and of the same age, crossing paths and ending up living together in Tokyo.
Style:
anime, emotional, touching, sentimental, shoujo ...
Audience:
girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
looking for love, flatmate, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age, musician, friendship, broken heart, punk rock, twentysomething life, rock band, angst, group of friends ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past ...
Style:
anime, touching, feel good, humorous, manga ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
time travel, high school, supernatural ability, friendship, classmate, teenage girl, coming of age, school, changing the past or future, friends, love, teenage love ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a bomb at Ebisu in Tokyo." A contract worker for the TV broadcasting station and a housewife are accused by the Ebisu police as being the ...
Style:
tension, suspense, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
christmas, investigation, christmas eve, ultimatum, tokyo tower, deadline, terrorism, bomb threat, anonymous telephone call, bomb, telephone call, threatening telephone call ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the Second World War. In his remake, Yamada has made very few ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
family life, parents and children, aging, beauty salon, elderly, siblings relations, couple relations, japanese schoolgirl, pretty girl, asian, old age, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia, east asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That ...
Style:
anime, touching, breathtaking, intense, poignant ...
Plot:
mentor, training, beast, destiny, martial arts, furry, friendship, loneliness, fantasy world, orphan, japanese schoolgirl, good versus evil ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
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