History Main / HollywoodMedievalJapan

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* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII: Turtles In Time'' features the heroes going back in time to a highly fictionalized medieval Japan.

* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' portrays a fictionalized version of the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion as the end of Japan's medieval society, where the Imperial government wants to modernize and Westernize while a group of conservative samurai rebel and fight for traditional Japanese values. The film depicts ninja night-raids in addition to the rebels fighting [[NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight rifles and cannons with blades and bows]]. In reality, the war the story is based on was fought with gunpowder on both sides, with the rebels only reverting back to traditional weapons after they ran out of modern ammo.

* ''Film/{{Silence}}'' is about three Portuguese priests trying to spread Catholicism to Japan during the Edo period.

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* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' gives us Agatea; a whole continent which is a FantasyCounterpartCulture for everything Far Eastern or Oriental on our world. The Japanese aspects are a mishmash of UpToEleven Japan, taken from various points over the country's history, culture, and folklore, thrown into a blender, churned, and then poured out to see what emerges.

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* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' portrays the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion as the long-overdue end of Japan's medieval style of society, where the Imperial government wants to modernize while a group of samurai fight back. The film depicts ninja night-raids in addition to the rebels fighting [[NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight rifles and cannons with blades and bows]]. In reality, the war was fought with gunpowder on both sides, with the rebels only reverting back to traditional weapons after they ran out of modern ammo.

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII: Turtles In Time''

The {{anime}} portrayal is somewhat more accurate, but naturally, Japan has its own stereotypes about its past. For a look at native Japanese anime and live action film depictions of this era, see JidaiGeki.

* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings''s is set in a fantasy world that resembles feudal Japan.

* The Draconis Combine in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' is basically Hollywood Medieval Japan InSpace with HumongousMecha: people in the Combine speak Japanese, they fight with katanas, they sic ninjas on their enemies, they commit seppuku when they've acted dishonorably... This is even subtly acknowledged in several books, such as a note in one novel where several Draconis Combine warriors visited Japan while on Terra and annoy the heck out of actual Japanese people with their LoonyFan behavior.

* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' portrays the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion as the long-overdue end of Japan's medieval style of society, where the Imperial government wants to modernize while a group of samurai fight back. The film depicts ninja night-raids in addition to the rebels fighting [[NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight rifles and cannons with blades and bows]]. In reality, the war was fought with gunpowder on both sides.

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* Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Theatre/TheMikado'', which was actually an intentional ''parody'' of the British aristocracy set in Japan.
* ''Theatre/MadameButterfly''
** Only with a very wide definition of ''medieval'' - it is set at late 19th or early 20th century, about the time it was written in.
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** For that matter, most ''TMNT'' episodes/issues that involve TimeTravel or the BackStory.
* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' is technically about the very end of this period.

* Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Theatre/TheMikado''
** Which was actually an intentional ''parody'' of the British aristocracy set in Japan.

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* ''Literature/{{Shogun}}''

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* The Draconis Combine in ''TabletopGame/Battletech'' is basically Hollywood Medieval Japan InSpace with HumongousMecha: people in the Combine speak Japanese, they fight with katanas, they sic ninjas on their enemies, they commit seppuku when they've acted dishonorably... This is even subtly acknowledged in several books, such as a note in one novel where several Draconis Combine warriors visited Japan while on Terra and annoy the heck out of actual Japanese people with their LoonyFan behavior.

(Western) works that are set in this time period include:

See also: AnachronismStew, HollywoodHistory. The fantasy equivalent is {{Wutai}}.

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* ''UsagiYojimbo'' does this better than most -- Stan Sakai was born in Japan (though he moved to Hawaii at an early age), grew up watching [[JidaiGeki chanbara movies]] and his comments in the back of the comic book collections show that he has indeed done research, and [[ShownTheirWork it shows]].

* ''[[Literature/AsianSaga Shogun]]''