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Mission: Impossible Star Tom Cruise, Director Christopher McQuarrie Pose at Ghibli Museum

The Mission: Impossible franchise's official Japanese Instagram account shared a photo of star Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie posing with the giant Totoro plush at the Ghibli Museum on Wednesday. The museum itself subsequently reposted the photo.

Cruise, McQuarrie, and several Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning cast members were in Japan for the worldwide premiere of the film on May 6. According to the film's Japanese website, the event took place at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office and featured a special ukiyo-e woodblock print art of the film. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike was also in attendance at the premiere to announce the opening of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning's red-carpet event. The governor and Cruise were able to meet during the event and shook hands on stage.

Cruise and McQuarrie also had a chance to meet with Godzilla Minus One writer and director Takashi Yamazaki at the Shibuya Sky observation deck, overlooking Tokyo's famed Shibuya Scramble Crossing intersection:

The Final Reckoning is the eighth film in the Mission: Impossible film franchise and the sequel to 2023's Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. The Final Reckoning will open in Japan and the United States on May 23, although theaters in Japan will have advance screenings from May 17 to May 22.

This is not Cruise and McQuarrie's first joint foray into Japan — McQuarrie co-wrote Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow film based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka's light novel All You Need Is Kill. Separately, Cruise starred in The Last Samurai with Ken Watanabe, while Skydance Media hired McQuarrie to co-write and direct a planned live-action Hollywood film adaptation of the Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) anime.

Sources: Mission: Impossible's Japanese X/Twitter account (link 2), Mission: Impossible's Japanese website, Ghibli Museum's X/Twitter account