Jovial Japan: Oh, the Places We’ll Go!
The Buttontapper Challenge is back! This month’s challenge is Seussily titled “Oh, the Places We’ll Go!” and will feature a new destination, daily, with inspiration from film and literature.
Today we’re traveling to Japan.
Films featuring Japan
If you’ve seen any Godzilla movies, congratulations: you’ve definitely seen a movie set in Japan! Here’s a short list of Hollywood flicks set in the country that you may also have seen:
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- Adrift in Tokyo
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
- The Karate Kid Part II
- Lost in Translation
- Mr. Baseball
- Silence
- You Only Live Twice
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One of my favorite Japanese films that’s been subtitled for an English-speaking audience is Tampopo, a comedy that’s all about the Japanese obsession with ramen:
Books set in Japan
And, of course, there are thousands of books set in Japan as well. If you’re a fan of Haruki Murakami or Banana Yoshimoto, you’ve already read half a dozen of them. Here are a few more to add to your reading list:
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- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
- In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
- The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
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Have you ever been to Japan?
What did you enjoy most about visiting this country?
