Where was The Last Samurai filmed?

2003 film directed by Edward Zwick

The Last Samurai (2003) was filmed in Engyō-ji Temple — 1 recorded filming location in Japan. It is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.

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Filming locations

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  🏛 Landmarks & buildings

  Engyō-ji Temple

  🇯🇵 Japan

  Buddhist temple in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Also per Wikipedia's Production section

Wikipedia’s Production section names 3 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Japan, New Zealand, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

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