Beberapa sutradara Hollywood telah beralih ke Tokyo sebagai latar belakang untuk pembuatan film di Jepang. Contoh-contoh film pascaperang antara lain ''[[Tokyo Joe (1949 film)|Tokyo Joe]]'', ''[[My Geisha]]'', ''[[Tokyo Story]]'' dan film [[James Bond]] bertajuk ''[[You Only Live Twice (film)|You Only Live Twice]]''. Contoh-contoh film keluaran terbaru antara lain ''[[Kill Bill]]'', ''[[The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift]]'', ''[[Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation]]'', ''[[Babel (film)|Babel]]'', dan ''[[Inception]]''.
Penulis Jepang [[Haruki Murakami]] mengambil Tokyo sebagai latar dari beberapa novelnya (termasuk novel [[Norwegian Wood]]). Dua novel pertama [[David Mitchell]] (''[[Number9dream|''number9dream'']]'' dan [[Ghostwritten (novel)|''Ghostwritten'']]) juga menampilkan kota tersebut. Pelukis Inggris kontemporer [[Carl Randall]] menghabiskan 10 tahun tinggal di Tokyo sebagai seorang seniman berandal, menciptakan karya yang menggambarkan jalan-jalan kota yang ramai dan ruang publik.<ref name="BBC World Service - Carl Randall interview">{{citation | title= BBC World Service: World Update. 'Carl Randall – Painting the faces in Japan's crowded cities'. | publisher= BBC World Service | year= 2016 | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mt7rn | access-date= December 21, 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161227232234/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mt7rn | archive-date= December 27, 2016 | dead-url= no | df= mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="BBC News - Carl Randall interview">{{citation | title= BBC News. 'Painting the faces in Japan's crowded cities'. | publisher= BBC News – Arts & Entertainment | year= 2016 | url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35841387 | access-date= July 21, 2018 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170222002416/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35841387 | archive-date= February 22, 2017 | dead-url= no | df= mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="Tokyo Portraits by Carl Randall">{{citation | title= 'Tokyo Portraits by Carl Randall'. | publisher= The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, London | year= 2014 | url= http://www.dajf.org.uk/exhibitions/tokyo-portraits-by-carl-randall-2 | access-date= December 21, 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161221234253/http://www.dajf.org.uk/exhibitions/tokyo-portraits-by-carl-randall-2 | archive-date= December 21, 2016 | dead-url= no | df= mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="BP Portrait Award 2013">{{citation | title= 'The BP Portrait Awards 2013'. | publisher= The National Portrait Gallery, London | year= 2012 | url= http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/bp-portrait-award-2013/the-exhibition/exhibitors/bp-2013-exhibitor-6.php | access-date= December 21, 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170206151037/http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/bp-portrait-award-2013/the-exhibition/exhibitors/bp-2013-exhibitor-6.php | archive-date= February 6, 2017 | dead-url= no | df= mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="Japan Portraits">{{citation | title= 'Japan Portraits'. | publisher= Carl Randall – artist website | year= 2016 | url= http://www.carlrandall.com/japan-portraits | access-date= December 21, 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161221092002/http://www.carlrandall.com/japan-portraits/ | archive-date= December 21, 2016 | dead-url= no | df= mdy-all }}</ref>
