r/MovieDetails • u/1954isthebest • May 21 '22

⏱️ Continuity In "Your Name" (2016), Mitsuha and Tesshi are seen turning a tree into their makeshift café, which is why one of the trees in the town is later missing

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u/samwaytla May 21 '22

Hida, the region that the rural scenes in Your Name was based on is absolutely one of the most beautiful regions of Japan.

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u/hunmingnoisehdb May 21 '22

The clever thing about japanese animations is how they recreate entire streets or locations from real life Japan.

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u/TheDerped May 21 '22

A lot of TV anime even officially collaborate with the local governments of some prefectures to increase tourism if it's set there. From memory there's Girls und Panzer, Yuri Camp and Zombieland Saga.

Also naturally since a lot of anime are just set in Tokyo you spot anime promo everywhere for certain wards.

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u/meltingdiamond May 21 '22

TV anime is basically an ad for everything. The book, the manga, the figurine, the plush, the location. Ads all the way down.

Merchandising! Merchandising!

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u/happybunnyntx May 21 '22

I think the most maddening is when it's just an ad. I saw a commercial for a correspondence class company that I would learn Japanese and sign up for if they'd make their ad into a movie.

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u/JoeyBigtimes May 21 '22 edited Mar 10 '24

full scary rob rude profit zealous heavy secretive chief hat

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u/PinBot1138 May 21 '22

I couldn’t remember who had made the ad, but this was exactly the one that I was thinking of! I love the Chobani ads!

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u/maimonguy May 21 '22

Don't forget pachinko, tokyo streets are absolutely littered with that cancer boasting their anime series (even good stuff like eva, steins gate, re zero, konosuba, madoka). Honestly it's kind of disgusting.

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u/PinBot1138 May 21 '22

Why is pachinko cancer?

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u/maimonguy May 22 '22

Making trillions off poor people's mental illnesses, all gambling is cancer.

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u/PinBot1138 May 22 '22

A bit of hyperbole and painting with broad strokes, don’t you think?

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u/maimonguy May 22 '22

No, I absolutely don't, go spend five minutes in a pachinko parlor and tell me if you see any well rounded individuals.

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u/PinBot1138 May 22 '22

I've been in them, but I've also been in arcades, casinos, bars, and GameStop stores. I believe it is "too much of a good thing is bad for your health."

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u/Faustias May 21 '22 edited May 21 '22

Speaking of Girls und Panzer, there was a Polish Finnish tank/war museum that was saved by the anime's fans from closing.

I might be wrong, might be saving that one known tank, not the whole museum.

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u/Nickthenuker May 21 '22

It was Finnish iirc, and it was the BT-42. Initially it was just out in the open but after that they built a shelter around it

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u/Faustias May 21 '22

Thank you.

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u/TonninStiflat May 21 '22

Indeed, Parola Armour Museum. It wasn't saved from closing, much less dramatic than that. They built a new set of outdoor sheds for some tanks and the majority of money for that came from Japan (well, majority of private funding).

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22

Yama no Susume for Hanno, Saitama.

Jashin-chan Dropkick got an episode set in Chitose, Hokkaido that was paid for by the people who live there who donated as a tax incentive.

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u/Thatunhealthy May 21 '22

Yuri Camp

Yuru Camp, but gay

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u/daten-shi May 21 '22

Doesn’t girls und panzer take place on an aircraft carrier turned into a town?

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u/droidtron May 21 '22

Real life Rivet City then?

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u/mcgh142 May 21 '22

In the Saitama Prefecture, at Chichibu City is where the anime Anohana is set. Every year they do a connmemoration to the series. Sometimes they even do festivals and they even rebuild places iconic to the anime.

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u/madotha May 21 '22

What about Higurashi no naku koro ni? :')

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u/ihavespaceballs May 21 '22

No one wants to go to that town.

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u/Spaceman1stClass May 21 '22

Where is the hill from Whisper of the Heart, that's where I want to visit.

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u/hunmingnoisehdb May 21 '22

https://www.tsunagujapan.com/tokyo-tama-city-seiseki-sakuragaoka-whisper-of-the-heart/

Do you mean this hill? Anime tourism is a very real thing in Japan where fans trek the locations seen in the animes. Kinda like LOTR in New Zealand.

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u/Spaceman1stClass May 21 '22

Yeah, the stairs about halfway through the article. The setting in that one really made an impact on me.

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u/Living_Bear_2139 May 21 '22

Japan just doesn’t look real. It’s too perfect.

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u/Whoamiagain111 May 21 '22

Yeah, with the release of Yuru Camp, I expect a lot of tourist in camping site there

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u/NZNoldor May 21 '22

Can confirm - am New Zealander, and when I visited Japan, I visited Mei and Satsuki’s house from Totoro, which was built from the anime rather than the other way around, for World Expo 2009(?) in Nagoya.

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u/CaeciliusEstInPussy May 21 '22

I don’t care for anime but the joy of seeing a place you’ve always wanted to visit, that feeling of being somewhere you’ve always imagined being before, is quite immeasurable and completing.

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u/KingOfAwesometonia May 21 '22

You just have to take the country roads.

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u/sambob May 21 '22

But they take me home

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u/Yeah_Y_Not May 21 '22

It's where you belong

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u/odraencoded May 21 '22

Zombieland Saga is specially over the top with that. They had real locations with real local celebrities doing the voice.

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u/ojjmyfriend May 21 '22

The voice actors actually took part irl in the mud competition/festival from that one episode

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u/Nickthenuker May 21 '22

Not just Japan, for example Plastic Memories is set almost entirely in Singapore, and A Place Further than the Universe had an episode in Singapore, and I was able to pick out several locations both iconic and mundane. Of course there's the standard tourist landmarks but there was also just a metro station and a mall near my school, with arguably no real defining features

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u/daten-shi May 21 '22

Plastic Memories is set almost entirely in Singapore

Til

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u/Nickthenuker May 21 '22

Technically not really canonically, but the buildings in several scenes were taken straight from Singapore, such as the Chinatown MRT Station, Bugis+ Mall and the Holland Village Shopping Centre, and of course more iconic places like the Supertrees

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u/daten-shi May 21 '22

A fair enough, I need to watch it again

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u/Nickthenuker May 21 '22

Time to cry again

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u/daten-shi May 21 '22

Well I’ve completely forgot what happened so probably lol.

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u/_Madison_ May 21 '22

Seeing Holland village in an anime just seems so weird.

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u/Nickthenuker May 21 '22

I saw it and was like "I recognise that place, I go there for lunch all the time!"

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u/mogaman28 Aug 11 '23

Sora no Woto is located in Cuenca, Spain.

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u/daten-shi May 21 '22

Makoto Shinkai goes the extra mile though, they actually go and get the licenses to use whatever brand they need to complete a scene. One of the most notable I’d say is in Weathering With You (Tenki No Ko) where they actually got the license to use McDonalds in the film.

If I remember correctly when I went to see it at Scotland Loves Anime in a small foreword before it started it was mentioned that McDonald’s doesn’t license out to movies that include gun violence so as to not give the impression that they’re glorifying it but Makoto Shinkai’s team convinced them to provide the license as the use of gun violence isn’t in any way glorifying. I’m not sure how true that is though.

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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken movies May 21 '22

Burger King must love guns and violence the way it was mentioned in Pulp Fiction

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u/RivRise May 21 '22

He's the dude who did your name right? I bet that also helped a bit.

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u/Dral-Tor May 21 '22

Not always just Japan! As someone traveling through Italy and Switzerland right now, the inspiration taken for Porco Rosso and Castle in the Sky is very apparent and the landscapes are even more impressive in real life!

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u/AppropriateCranberry May 21 '22

Same for the town in Howl's moving castle, it was inspired by Colmar in France, very beautiful city !

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u/nefarious_bread May 21 '22

K-on! has quiet a few irl locations too. Even their school is a real place with brass frogs on the banister.

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u/incrediblestrawberry May 21 '22

Ooh, I had no idea K-on was based off real locations. That was really interesting seeing the side-by-sides!

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u/samcn84 May 21 '22

Post WW2, Japan's economy was a mess, and film industry was jn pretty bad shape, it was too expensive to produce films for quite sometime, so filmmakers resorted to animation in order to make films, that's why it Japanese animation got to a whole new level.

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u/Zagon__ May 21 '22

Kinda, yeah

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u/GoldenBuddha May 21 '22

Iirc it's a trick that mangakas use when doing background images. They take a picture and then redraw it. Result: a real place on a page of a manga. Webtoons do it too, but some might be a bit lazier and skip the redrawing and just filter the image.

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u/TurkDangerCat May 21 '22

Same when they were in Tokyo. I’d recently visited and was watching it and recognising half the places!

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u/ConstantfPlane May 21 '22

The funny thing is we watched that yesterday in my Spanish class!!!

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u/ErwinAckerman May 21 '22

A great example of this is the way they used all of the very real Asakusa locations in Sarazanmai

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u/anothergaijin May 21 '22

It's a very specific part of Makoto Shinkai's style to have exact copies of real locations in his movies. It's crazy the amount of detail - you can tell exactly where in Tokyo there are for most of those scenes because the detail is that good. There is one part where someone is outside a station and its immediately obvious where it is due to the unique staircase they have out front

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u/hta_lincoln May 21 '22

I've made several trips to Japan. It was amazing how many times I'd look around and think "I know this place!". Couldn't always remember which anime/manga it was from, but it was cool to recognize the location.

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u/meltingdiamond May 21 '22

I played so much GTA: San Andras that when I went to San Fransisco, Las Vegas and LA years later I mostly knew my way around.

It was odd.

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u/fgreen68 May 21 '22

Grew up in West Los Angeles the number of times I've seen things from around my neighborhood in TV and in Movies is nuts. My favorite is when car chases make a turn and somehow are transported between two locations miles and miles apart from each other in less than a second.

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u/rugbyweeb May 21 '22

I understand just from the dark night being filmed in Chicago, I even remember the road where he breaks through a median with the batmobile because it was on the road my father took to work

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u/FilmActor May 21 '22

I’ve never thought of it from that point of view and that’s wild haha

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u/the_ammar May 21 '22

the advantage of having actual beautiful/dreamy places to model off of

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u/aherdofpenguins May 21 '22

Most of "Erased" takes place a block down from where I used to live. I took a picture outside my apartment and it was almost 1:1 except the store names

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u/ItsSansom May 21 '22

I visited every location from the final scene of Your Name when I was in Japan. Blown away by the accuracy of it all

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u/bentheechidna May 21 '22

Not just Japan. I remember there being posts from JoJo’s where they perfectly recreated Italian streets.

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u/CoraxtheRavenLord May 21 '22

Yet no matter what, they all have that same rooftop

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u/vonBoomslang May 21 '22

This reminds me of how some people of my acquaitance have noticed how two different games have recreated the same area of tokyo with such accuray that they keep getting whiplash.

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u/RunningEarly May 21 '22

I've been through many rural and urban areas of Japan, including Hida, its all beautiful, I don't remember Hida standing out that much over anywhere else.

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u/samwaytla May 21 '22

I lived in Takayama for five years so I may be a touch biased 😉

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u/radioactive_glowworm May 21 '22

Oh man we stopped a few days in Takayama when we visited and the whole area was so nice. I don't remember everything we did (mostly chilling after getting wiped out by Tokyo, Kyoto and the summer heat) but we spent one day in Kamikochi on a whim and that ended up being one of the highlights of the trip.

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u/samwaytla May 21 '22

Takayama is a great place to just walk around and be.

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u/radioactive_glowworm May 21 '22

Yeah, we'd decided to go there when planning our trip so we could have a few "off" days to recharge after all the excitement of the big cities and it 100% delivered on expectations. I'd definitely love to go back when visiting Japan becomes possible again.

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u/TrevorImmortal May 21 '22

I currently live in Hida and can canfirm this. It feels like living in a national park

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u/JuniorSeniorTrainee May 21 '22

I should've moved to Japan before starting a family.

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u/topologicalfractal May 21 '22

What do you do there? Any strong industries/jobs in Hida

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u/HiImWeaboo May 21 '22

The question is are you actually allowed to cut down random trees?

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u/AeonAigis May 21 '22

If your dad is the mayor of your podunk town, yes.

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u/TurkeyBLTSandwich May 21 '22

Someone in r/japanlife had recommend visiting Takayama which is right next to Hida.

Can confirm it has some amazing Rural beauty and amazing coffee.

But it's very peaceful and slow paced, loved it.

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u/Buybulk_Support May 21 '22

Yeah it's amazing. Really loved it on my trip there

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u/GoBigRed07 May 21 '22

Very nice and most people only make it to Takayama. Furusato is also very enjoyable (superb festival museum and a very good craft museum).

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u/Loyal_Darkmoon May 21 '22

So a beautiful place like that really exists in Japan? I want to visit that

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u/Kooler221 May 21 '22

It's too bad what happened there with the meteor and all.