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Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor
I think it is. IIRC, areas in Tokyo city cannot be "bought" or "reserved" for shooting especially by foreign filmmakers. Tokyo is too busy for that, I guess. Still, I could be wrong  . |
There's some restrictions imposed by the Tokyo municipal government or the local film board for on-location filming, as they tend to disrupt local activity; examples include Babel (they had to shoot scenes on the sly) and Tokyo Drift (most of the in-city car-chase action sequences were shot at Los Angeles).
Here's an article as to why it's hard to shoot there:
http://www.japantoday.com/category/a...lming-in-tokyo