Tokyo, the largest city in Japan and one of the great mysteries of the Far East; the Tokyo lifestyle is unlike that of any other city in the world. Japan's lengthy history of film is centered around the city, although there haven't been nearly as many Hollywood films produced there, with recent exceptions being Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai and the English language horror remake, The Grudge.
With that in mind, ComingSoon.net got a chance to visit set of The Grudge 2, being filmed at Japan's legendary Toho Sound Studios, home to the "Godzilla" movies and some of the greatest samurai films ever made. As it approaches its 75th Anniversary, Toho has been expanding and trying to break away from its Godzilla image, having recently received $20 million dollars for an expansion thanks to the Denzu company. While it will continue being one of Japan's top movie studios, it will also be filming many Japanese television shows in the future. It was a great time to be in Japan and at Toho, because the cherry blossoms, which literally only blossom for a week each year, were in full bloom, and it gave Toho a colorful and sunny spring feel, which couldn't be any more different than the dark nature of the film being made there.
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