Tokyo in pop culture

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As the largest city in Japan and the location of the country's largest broadcasters and studios, Tokyo is frequently the setting for many Japanese films, television shows, animated series (anime), and comic books (manga). The best-known outside Japan may be the kaiju (monster movie) genre, in which landmarks of Tokyo are routinely destroyed by giant monsters such as Godzilla. Many comic books and animated series set in Tokyo, such as Sailor Moon or Ranma ½, have become popular across the world as well. Some futuristic mangas and anime like Akira often depict Tokyo as a sprawling metropolis in a post-apocalyptic setting; some often go so far as to have numbers designating different Tokyo's.

Some Hollywood directors have turned to Tokyo as a filming location. Well-known examples from the postwar era include Tokyo Joe, My Geisha, and the James Bond film You Only Live Twice; well-known contemporary examples include Kill Bill, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Lost in Translation.

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[edit] List of representations of Tokyo in popular culture

This is a list of popular culture such as anime, manga, films, TV series or novels mainly set in Tokyo or Edo. A title with just a brief episode in the city is not listed. Here, "Tokyo" includes whole the administrative area such as Tama, Izu and Ogasawara, but excludes other parts of Greater Tokyo such as Kanagawa, Chiba or Saitama. Titles may be set in the fictitious different city based on Tokyo. "Future Tokyo" may mean the city before the current date, still after the time it was represented. (e.g. Patlabor series was set in 1998-2002, which was "future" at the time the original anime was released in 1988.)

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[edit] Edo period and before

[edit] Meiji, Taishō, and pre-war Shōwa

[edit] Post-war Shōwa until 1980s

[edit] Current Tokyo, after 1980s

[edit] Future

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