List of Japanese films of 2001

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

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			Entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival
Crayon Shin-chan: The Adult Empire Strikes Back
Desert Moon	Shinji Aoyama			Entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
Detective Conan: Countdown to Heaven
Distance	Hirokazu Koreeda			Entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	Hironobu Sakaguchi	Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, James Woods	Science fiction
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			Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
The Happiness of the Katakuris	Takashi Miike		Comedy horror, Musical
Ichi the Killer	Takashi Miike		Crime, Horror
Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time			Fantasy anime
Kairo	Kiyoshi Kurosawa		Horror	Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
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			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
One Piece the Movie: Clockwork Island Adventure		Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Hirata
Onmyoji	Yojiro 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 Ito	Action, Science fiction
Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki		Fantasy Anime	Blue Ribbon Award winner Japan Academy Prize for Best Film Academy Award for Best Animated Feature winner
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

External links

• Japanese films of 2001 at the Internet Movie Database