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To pull the audience into the cinema and also to let them actually also go through what many have gone through in the past, Hollywood always manages to find new and exciting ways to do so. Tokyo is one of the sought out places because of the Japanese heritage and old world styling. This helps the audience to really experience what others have gone through.

Movie experience should take the viewer into a world they would not normally experience in real life. That is why movies were invented in the first place. Tokyo with it’s exotic glamorous locale allows those who will never have the chance to go where they will never get the opportunity to ever see. So by escaping into the imagination of the filmmakers the average person can travel to worlds beyond their realm of reality.

While these most famous 5 Hollywood films are actually shot in Tokyo, there are other movies, which were not shot in Japan but portray Japan in all its wonders:

Letters from Iwo Jima

One of the most realistic war movies of all time gives the movie audience a peek into the Battle of Iwo Jima. Director and Producer Clint Eastwood transformed the set into the infamous battle allowing the viewer to see the war from the aspect of two Japanese soldiers. While using the authentic location of Tokyo, the film crew transformed the set to look like a Japan of the past.

The Last Samurai

Next on the list is another war movie, which starred Tom Cruise. Similar to Letters from Iwo Jima only in the aspect that Tokyo was transformed into a world of the past. This film tells the story of a troubled American soldier while he finds inner peace staying at a remote Japanese village.

Kill Bill

While this movie was separated into two movies, major parts of each were filmed in the exotic location. Kill Bill takes the viewer on an epic journey with the characters from events in their past immersed in true Japanese culture to a modern world overseas.

The Grudge

Japan is one of the best locations for horror films because it takes the audience into one of the scariest journeys into the unknown quality that exudes from the atmosphere. The original Japanese movie “The Grudge”, with the help of the director of the original Japanese movie and filmed in Tokyo, still remains to be one of the scariest movies ever watched.

Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Probably one of the most famous of movies filmed in Tokyo is probably the one movie in the Fast and the Furious franchise that remains the least popular. This movie ranks high in action with a great story of a young American man becoming involved with illegal street racing in Tokyo.

Tokyo is definitely the best choice of exotic location to shoot a film.

Cecilia Owens, a freelance travel writer, writes articles for a top South African travel comparison website called bestflights.co.za