Editing Nagoya (section)

===In popular culture===
The world premiere of the first ''[[Godzilla]]'' movie was in Nagoya on October 27, 1954.{{sfn|Ryfle|Godziszewski|2017|p=104}} The city, especially Nagoya Castle, has been featured in two other Godzilla movies: ''[[Mothra vs. Godzilla]]'' and ''[[Godzilla vs. Mothra]]''. The city is also featured in ''[[Gamera vs. Gyaos]]'' and is the main setting of 2003 film ''[[Gozu]].'' The 1995 film ''[[The Hunted (1995 film)|The Hunted]]'' starring [[Christopher Lambert]] and the 1992 film ''[[Mr. Baseball]]'' starring [[Tom Selleck]] were also filmed in the city.

The city was the setting for the 2007 movie ''[[Best Wishes for Tomorrow|Ashita e no yuigon]]'' (translated as ''Best Wishes for Tomorrow''), in which a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] war criminal sets out to take responsibility for the execution of U.S. airmen.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q4896840}}</ref> The anime ''[[The Wind Rises]]'' by [[Hayao Miyazaki]], released in 2013, is a highly fictionalized biography of the [[Mitsubishi A6M Zero]]'s chief engineer [[Jiro Horikoshi]] and takes mostly place in Nagoya of the 1920s and 1930s.<ref>{{cite web |last=Cangialosi |first=Jason |title=Miyazaki's 'The Wind Rises' Ignites Debate & Japanese Box-Office |url=http://voices.yahoo.com/miyazakis-wind-rises-ignites-debate-japanese-box-12282476.html?cat=37 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140727212120/http://voices.yahoo.com/miyazakis-wind-rises-ignites-debate-japanese-box-12282476.html?cat=37 |archive-date=27 July 2014 |access-date=15 August 2013 |publisher=[[Yahoo! Voices]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=UK |first=The Huffington Post |date=9 May 2014 |title=EXCLUSIVE: Hayao Miyazaki On Rising For His Final Film |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/09/the-wind-rises-hayao-miyazaki-video_n_5295745.html |access-date=12 April 2017 |work=huffingtonpost.co.uk}}</ref> Nagoya is also the setting for the manga and anime series [[Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki]], which highlights many of the sites and traditions of the city.

Haruki Murakami called Nagoya "another world" (異界, ikai) in the book "Tokyo Surume Club: Chikyuu no Hagurekata".