VideoMt Fuji & Kawaguchiko · Yamanashi Prefecture

Pre-wedding film in Mt Fuji & Kawaguchiko

In short

A pre-wedding film at Mt Fuji costs $1,200 for 30 minutes of filming and a 60-second film with licensed music within four weeks. We film the sunrise at Lake Kawaguchi; a second chapter elsewhere is added with extra hours ($150 each), and the cloud plan is agreed before the day.

Starting from: $1,200
Duration: 30 min
Video: 60 s film

Why here

Why choose Pre-wedding film in Mt Fuji & Kawaguchiko?

A film can do something a photograph at Fuji cannot: show the mountain arriving. Cloud lifting off the summit, light moving down the snow, the lake going from grey to gold — those minutes become the spine of the story, and your voices or letters run over them. The cost is that the mountain may not perform, so the 30 minutes go to the chapter that needs Fuji, and a second chapter that does not, in another place, is added with extra hours.

How the shoot is planned

How a session in Mt Fuji & Kawaguchiko is planned

The route

The 30 minutes are the sunrise on the north shore of Lake Kawaguchi: the filmmaker sets up, holding a wide shot while the summit catches light, then moves to a gimbal for the two of you walking the shore. A clip microphone records a few lines you have written to each other; we keep the lake wind out of it by recording those words later in the morning, indoors. With extra hours, filming can start in your room while hair and make-up are finished — hands, the dress on its hanger, the window going pale — and after the change a second chapter goes to a quieter shore at Lake Saiko or Motosu, or to the forest roads between them, for the close, slower scenes.

The timing

Book between October and February for a clear summit and a quiet shore: the lake is often mirror-still at first light, and sound is cleanest before the tour coaches arrive around 09:00. Early to mid-November adds maple colour on the north shore; mid-April adds blossom but more haze. Avoid June to September unless you have two mornings, because summer cloud can hide the mountain for several days in a row and the film’s opening depends on it.

What’s included

What Pre-wedding film in Mt Fuji & Kawaguchiko includes

In the package

A 60-second film with licensed music
Story outline and location agreed in advance
Delivered within 4 weeks

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Inspiration

Pre-wedding film: ideas for your shoot

Frames by photographers on Unsplash, credited below — the mood to plan your own shoot against, not our portfolio.

Photos: Brock DuPont, Dmitriy Frantsev, Kyle Loftus, an.nemopo, Elist Nguyen on Unsplash

Before you book

FAQ — Pre-wedding film in Mt Fuji & Kawaguchiko

How much is a pre-wedding film at Mt Fuji?

$1,200 for 30 minutes of filming and a 60-second film within four weeks; a longer story across more places is filmed with extra hours at $150 each. Photos are not included: for both on the same morning, book the $800 pre-wedding photoshoot as well, so a photographer and a filmmaker work side by side. Hair and make-up is $100.

What does the film look like if Fuji never appears?

It becomes a film about the lake in mist, which can be beautiful but is not the story you booked. With two mornings, we keep the second one for the mountain, filming any second chapter you added first. With one, we tell you the evening before what the forecast suggests, and you decide whether to go ahead or move the date.

Can we include drone shots of the lake?

Only from private land with the owner’s consent and MLIT approval, added as the $235 drone add-on and booked at least three weeks ahead. The public shore where the sunrise chapter is filmed is not a flight location, so the aerial scenes belong to a second chapter on the private site, filmed with extra hours.

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