In Popular Culture
- Expo '70 is the setting for the Daiei Motion Picture Company production of Noriaki Yuasa's Gamera vs. Jiger (1970), which was extensively filmed on location at the Expo grounds. The final battle between the monsters takes place at the Expo site. The film was marketed overseas as Monsters Invade Expo '70.
- Expo '70 is mentioned in the Japanese manga 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa. In the manga, the Expo is recalled many times and the Tower of the Sun plays a role. It also features heavily in the anime Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back where it is used to represent the nostalgia people feel for the 20th century.
- Expo '70 is the main setting for the Canadian director Robert Lepage's 1998 film entitled Nô, based on his play The Seven Branches of the River Ota.
- Director Douglas Trumbull said that the design of the space freighter Valley Forge in the 1971 science fiction drama Silent Running was inspired by the Landmark Tower.
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