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Highest-grossing films

Rank Title Gross
1 Spirited Away ¥30.4 billion
2 Pokémon 4Ever ¥3.90 billion
3 Battle Royale ¥3.11 billion
4 Onmyōji ¥3.01billion
5 Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves ¥3.00 billion

List of films

A list of films released in Japan in 2001 (see 2001 in film).

Japanese films released in 1961
Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Akumyō
Akumyō 2: Araburu Kenkadamashī
All About Lily Chou-Chou Shunji Iwai Hayato Ichihara Drama
Apartment Wife: Moans from Next Door Toshiki Satō Mao Nakagawa
Tsukasa Saitō		 Pink Best Film, Pink Grand Prix
Avalon Mamoru Oshii Science fiction Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
Blue Hiroshi Ando Drama Entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival
Crayon Shin-chan: The Adult Empire Strikes Back
Desert Moon Shinji Aoyama Drama Entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
Detective Conan: Countdown to Heaven
Distance Hirokazu Koreeda Entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
Gaoranger: Fire Mountain Howls Tokusatsu Shown on a double bill with Kamen Rider Agito: Project G4
Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai Tokusatsu V-Cinema
Go
Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack Shusuke Kaneko Kaiju
Goryokaku Historical epic Based on events in the Boshin War of the 1860s
H Story Nobuhiro Suwa Drama Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
The Happiness of the Katakuris Takashi Miike Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda Horror, musical [1][2]
Ichi the Killer Takashi Miike Crime, Horror
Inugami Masato Harada Yūki Amami, Atsuro Watabe, Eugene Harada — [3]
Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time Fantasy anime
Kamen Rider Agito: Project G4 Tokusatsu Shown on a double bill with Gaoranger: Fire Mountain Howls
Kinnikuman Nisei the Movie
Man Walking on Snow Masahiro Kobayashi Drama Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
Metropolis Rintaro Science fiction
Anime
Millennium Actress Satoshi Kon Drama, Anime
Minna no Ie
Mourning Wife Daisuke Gotō Mayuko Sasaki
Koharu Yamasaki		 Pink Silver Prize, Best Actress, 2nd place and Best Cinematography, Pink Grand Prix
Saiyuki: Requiem - The Motion Picture Hayato Date Toshihiko Seki, Sōichirō Hoshi, Hiroaki Hirata, Akira Ishida Adventure, fantasy
One Piece the Movie: Clockwork Island Adventure Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Hirata
Onmyoji Yōjirō Takita Mansai Nomura Fantasy, Martial arts
Pistol Opera Seijun Suzuki Makiko Esumi Crime
Poketto Monsutā Serebii: The Meeting that Traversed Time Kunihiko Yuyama Fantasy Anime
The Princess Blade Shinsuke Sato Yumiko Shaku, Hideaki Itō Action, Science fiction
Pulse Kiyoshi Kurosawa Kumiko Asō, Haruhiko Kato, Koyuki J-horror [3][4]
Spirited Away Hayao Miyazaki Fantasy Anime Blue Ribbon Award winner
Japan Academy Prize for Best Film
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature winner
St. John's Wort Ten Shimoyama Megumi Okina, Yoichiro Saito, Koji Okura J-horror [3]
Timeranger vs. GoGoV Tokusatsu V-Cinema
Tomie: Re-birth Takashi Shimizu Miki Sakai Horror
Ultraman Cosmos: The First Contact Tokusatsu
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge Shōhei Imamura Kōji Yakusho
Misa Shimizu
Mitsuko Baisho		 Imamura's last feature film, entered into Cannes
Waterboys Shinobu Yaguchi Sports comedy

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ "TIFF History" (in Japanese). Tokyo International Film Festival.
  2. ^ Vick, Tom. "Happiness of the Katakuris". AllMovie. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c Galbraith IV 2008, p. 417.
  4. ^ Galbraith IV 2008, p. 418.

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