Japan for Movie & Drama Location Travelers

About this book

Japan is the world's great location country: a slope town in the Inland Sea that ended the most beloved film ever made here, a Hokkaido farm town that grew up inside a twenty-year television drama, morning serials that adopt a new home town every six months, castle towns that play every century on request. This guide gives the movie and drama location traveller 200 complete journeys, each built as a working method: the location case for the scene, exactly how the journey is built around it, its season and timing with its fallback, and the manners owed to the town, its residents and the strangers on its lanes. Kyoto's period districts and Onomichi's slopes, Tokyo's twenty screen lives, Furano and the asadora map, monster skylines and home-drama suburbs, ferries to island sets, snow audits and rain lists, and a full handbook of film commission desks, notebook craft and residents' rules. Hours, fees and filming schedules change, so none are asserted as fixed facts; every entry names the official source for its subject — while the durable part, how to plan, match, pivot and behave in any Japanese screen town, is guaranteed in full.