Hideki Takeuchi’s 2019 film “Fly Me to the Saitama,” based on Mineo Maya's gag manga, took a comedic if sympathetic view of the much-mocked title prefecture, which has a relationship to Tokyo like that of New Jersey to New York. The film became an award-winning hit in depicting a fantasy rebellion of beleaguered Saitama-ese against their snobby Tokyo betters.
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