This post is a little different than the (few) previous ones. Instead of talking about films showing in Tokyo, it is a list of films about or set in Tokyo. This week I am curating the @beingtokyo account on twitter. (More info on that here). Beyond just talking about what I am doing in Greater Tokyo, I thought it might be interesting to get into some discussions about film, thinking that one way a city defines itself (or is defined by others) is through film. I chose a the first six below. I ended up asking for more suggestions from the @beingtokyo community and got a whole bunch more. Thinking it was kind of a waste to let these suggestions float into the twitter archive, I collected them here.
If you want to suggest any others, you can tweet me @beingtokyo .
Tokyo Story
Tokyo Family
Lost In Translation
Shall We Dance
Godzilla
Tora-san’s Lullaby
@beingtokyo suggestion – take Lost In Translation off the list, & replace it with Tokyo Sonata or Like Someone in Love.
— Fernando Gros (@fernandogros) December 2, 2015
Tokyo Sonata
Like Someone in Love
@beingtokyo 「誰も知らない」is a good one.
— Dave Brunner (@supercubdebito) December 2, 2015
Nobody Knows
@beingtokyo Wasabi, while chauvinistic and mindless, is a fun ride and depicts "average" tokyo better than Lost in Translation.
— Dan (@dokool) December 2, 2015
Wasabi
@beingtokyo @fernandogros Tokyo Pop, one of my favs from the 80s
— Vivian Morelli (@lostinseoul) December 2, 2015
Tokyo Pop
@beingtokyo Stray Dog!
— Dave Brunner (@supercubdebito) December 2, 2015
Stray Dog
野良犬 Stray Dog Opening 1949 黒澤明 Kurosawa… 投稿者 MorinoMashio
Bounce Ko Gals
@lostinseoul @beingtokyo @fernandogros "Bounce Ko Girls" captured the 90s ennui very well. https://t.co/z9839RQcNd
— Mulboyne (@Mulboyne) December 2, 2015
I couldn’t find an embedable trailer, but this Vietnamese site has the trailer.
@beingtokyo The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
~half-kidding~
— RF Parsley (@sanverde) December 2, 2015
@beingtokyo Tokyo Drift 🙂 And uhm what about Wolverine in Tokyo, yeah I love #actionmovies 🙂
— Saskia Rock (@saskia_rock) December 2, 2015
Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift
The Wolverine
@beingtokyo @fernandogros
"Bad news bears go to Japan" (1978). Terrible movie, good scenery.
"Walk, don't run" (1966)
— the tokyo files (@thetokyofiles) December 2, 2015
The Bad News Bears Go To Japan
Walk Don’t Run
@beingtokyo @fernandogros
set in Tokyo?
"Adrift in Tokyo" (2007)
"Season of the sun" (1956)
"Tokyo Olympiad" (1965)
— the tokyo files (@thetokyofiles) December 2, 2015
Adrift in Tokyo
Season of the Sun
Tokyo Olympiad
@beingtokyo Actually, if you know Shibuya, I suggest this year's animation "bake mono no ko" They pretty much nail the area. It was uncanny…
— Michael caldwell (@Absurdum14) December 2, 2015
The Boy and the Beast
@beingtokyo @supercubdebito They played House of Bamboo at the cinema museum place recently – great on a big screen…
— Michael caldwell (@Absurdum14) December 2, 2015
House of Bamboo