Mount Taranakiyama

Taranaki’s eponymous mountain is a suitable double for Mount Fuji, or so thinks Edward Zwick (Glory, Legends of the Fall) who will direct Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai later this year. New Zealand’s pristine looks make it the spitting image of 19th century Japan, the setting for the story of an American Civil War veteran who travels to Japan to teach them the art of war and comes away learning a thing or two himself.