Massan Filming Locations
Where was Massan filmed? Massan was filmed in 2 locations across Japan and United States in the following places:
Massan Filming Locations
Tokyo, Japan’s busy capital, mixes the ultramodern and the traditional, from neon-lit skyscrapers to historic temples. The opulent Meiji Shinto Shrine is known for its towering gate and surrounding woods. The Imperial Palace sits amid large public gardens. The city's many museums offer exhibits ranging from classical art (in the Tokyo National Museum) to a reconstructed kabuki theater (in the Edo-Tokyo Museum).
Massan (2014)
Massan is based on the lives of Masataka Taketsuru and his wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan, a Scotswoman Taketsuru met while studying abroad. American actress Charlotte Kate Fox stars as Ellie Kameyama opposite Japanese actor Tetsuji Tamayama as Masaharu Kameyama in a fictionalized account of Rita's travels to Japan and Taketsuru's attempts to begin the Nikka Whisky Distilling company. The story starts in Taisho era year 9, 1920 and the storyline develops for the next 50 years : The son and heir to a sake brewery in Hiroshima has discovered a passion for making whiskey. Blessed by his employer, he travels alone to Scotland to learn how to make the finest Whiskey. After two years, he returns to Japan with his expertise and dream of making Whiskey and his new foreigner wife. Massan is a Japanese television drama series, the 91st Asadora (morning drama) broadcast on NHK. It premiered on September 29, 2014, and will be broadcast daily until March 28, 2015. It is the first time that NHK's Asadora series has featured a non-Japanese actor in a lead role The drama shows a unique way of viewing Japanese virtues, and cross-cultural hospitality, while gaining an understanding of the differences between Scotland and Japan. The drama offers a unique view of growing up "Japanophile."