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Mount Fuji on Film: From Naruse to Godzilla to Anime

21 Jan

I’ve always been intrigued by 19th century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai’s series of woodblock prints entitled, “36 Views of Mount Fuji,” which indeed offers Mount Fuji from a variety of angles and settings. It’s made me sit up and take notice whenever I see Mount Fuji featured in a scene from any Japanese movie, TV show or anime, to the point where I’ve compiled a few dozen images of Fuji from these sources.

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