List of Japanese films of 2018

A list of Japanese films that were first released in 2018.

Highest-grossing films

The following is a list of the top 10 highest-grossing Japanese films released at the Japanese box office in 2018.

Rank	Title	Gross
1	Code Blue	¥9.30 billion ($ million)
2	Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer	¥9.18 billion ($ million)
3	Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Treasure Island	¥5.37 billion ($ million)
4	Shoplifters	¥4.55 billion ($ million)
5	Gintama 2	¥3.70 billion ($55.2 million)
6	Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura	¥3.21 billion ($ million)
7	One Cut of the Dead	¥3.12 billion ($ million)
8	Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us	¥3.09 billion ($ million)
9	Killing for the Prosecution	¥2.96 billion ($ million)
10	Mirai	¥2.88 billion ($ million)

Film releases

January – March

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Ref(s)
J A N U A R Y	5	We Make Antiques!	Masaharu Take	Kiichi Nakai, Kuranosuke Sasaki
	6	Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take on Me	Tatsuya Ishihara	Jun Fukuyama, Maaya Uchida, Azumi Asakura, Chinatsu Akasaki, Sumire Uesaka, Juri Nagatsuma
		Garo: Kami no Kiba	Keita Amemiya	Wataru Kuriyama, Junya Ikeda, Tsunenori Aoki
	13	Attack on Titan: The Roar of Awakening	Tetsurō Araki, Masashi Koizuka	Yūki Kaji, Yui Ishikawa, Marina Inoue, Hiro Shimono
		Mazinger Z: Infinity	Keita Amemiya	Wataru Kuriyama, Junya Ikeda, Tsunenori Aoki
		Evil and the Mask	Teppei Nakamura	Hiroshi Tamaki, Yuko Araki, Ryo Yoshizawa, Tatsuya Nakamura
	19	Saki Achiga-hen episode of Side-A	Yuichi Onuma	Hiyori Sakurada, Momoka Ito, Yuri Tsunematsu, Kōme Watanabe, Riko Nakayama, Nao Minamisawa
		The Lies She Loved	Kazuhito Nakae	Masami Nagasawa, Issey Takahashi, Daigo, Rina Kawaei, Maho Nonami, Eriko Hatsune
	26	Colours of Wind	Kwak Jae-yong	Yuki Furukawa, Takemi Fujii, Tomoya Ishii, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Mantaro Koichi, Yoshiko Nakada
		The Crimes That Bind	Katsuo Fukuzawa	Hiroshi Abe, Nanako Matsushima, Junpei Mizobata, Rena Tanaka, Erina Mano
F E B R U A R Y	2	Impossibility Defense	Kōji Shiraishi	Tori Matsuzaka, Erika Sawajiri, Mackenyu, Shotaro Mamiya, Tet Wada, Tetsuya Sugaya
	3	The Scythian Lamb	Daihachi Yoshida	Ryo Nishikido, Fumino Kimura, Yuka, Kazuki Kitamura, Mikako Ichikawa, Shingo Mizusawa
	9	Macross Delta the Movie: Passionate Walkūre	Kenji Yasuda	Yuuma Uchida, Minori Suzuki, Asami Seto, Ami Koshimizu, Kiyono Yasuno, Nao Tōyama
	10	Color Me True	Hideki Takeuchi	Haruka Ayase, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Tsubasa Honda, Kazuki Kitamura, Akiyoshi Nakao, Anna Ishibashi
		Code Geass Lelouch of the Resurrection the Movie: Rebellion Path	Gorō Taniguchi	Jun Fukuyama, Takahiro Sakurai, Yukana, Ami Koshimizu, Kaori Nazuka, Fumiko Orikasa
	16	River's Edge	Isao Yukisada	Fumi Nikaidō, Ryo Yoshizawa, Shuhei Uesugi, Sumire, Shiori Doi, Aoi Morikawa
	17	Sunny 32	Kazuya Shiraishi	Pierre Taki, Rie Kitahara, Mugi Kadowaki, Lily Franky, Taro Suruga, Takuma Otoo
		Dharuriser the Movie	Katsunori Sato	Takeaki Wachi, Kunihiko Ida, Taro Yamaguchi
	24	Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms	Mari Okada	Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Ai Kayano, Yūki Kaji
		Infini-T Force	Jun Matsumoto	Ai Kayano, Kenichi Suzumura, Atsushi Ono, Tomokazu Seki, Takahiro Sakurai, Soma Saito
M A R C H	3	Principal!	Tetsuo Shinohara	Yuina Kuroshima, Nozomu Kotaki, Mahiro Takasugi, Rina Kawaei, Mitsuki Tanimura
		Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple	Takuya Igarashi	Yūto Uemura, Mamoru Miyano, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Toshiyuki Toyonaga
		Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Treasure Island	Kazuaki Imai	Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Ohara, Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Tomokazu Seki
	10	Kids on the Slope	Takahiro Miki	Yuri Chinen, Taishi Nakagawa, Nana Komatsu, Erina Mano
		Last Winter, We Parted	Tomoyuki Takimoto	Takanori Iwata, Mizuki Yamamoto, Takumi Saito, Reina Asami, Kaho Tsuchimura, Kazuki Kitamura
		Sakura Guardian in the North	Yōjirō Takita	Sayuri Yoshinaga, Masato Sakai, Ryoko Shinohara, Ittoku Kishibe, Reiko Takashima, Toshiyuki Nagashima
		Ultraman Geed The Movie: Connect the Wishes!	Koichi Sakamoto	Tatsuomi Hamada, Chihiro Yamamoto, Mayu Hasegawa, Hideyoshi Iwata, Yûta Ozawa, Yuika Motokariya
	17	Chihayafuru Part 3	Norihiro Koizumi	Suzu Hirose, Shuhei Nomura, Mackenyu, Mone Kamishiraishi
		Pretty Cure Superstars!	Yoko Ikeda	Rie Hikisaka, Rina Honnizumi, Yui Ogura, Konomi Tada
	21	Laughing Under the Clouds	Katsuyuki Motohiro	Sota Fukushi, Yuma Nakayama, Yuki Furukawa, Renn Kiriyama
	30	Honey So Sweet	Kōji Shintoku	Sho Hirano, Yuna Taira, Ryusei Yokohama, Kaho Mizutani

April - June

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Ref(s)
A P R I L	6	The Bastard and the Beautiful World	Various	Sion Sono, Kenji Yamauchi, Hikari Ōta, Yuichi Kodama
	7	Servamp: Alice in the Garden	Hideaki Nakano	Takuma Terashima, Yūki Kaji, Hiro Shimono, Kazuma Horie
	13	Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer	Tachikawa Yuzuru	Minami Takayama, Wakana Yamazaki, Rikiya Koyama, Tōru Furuya
		Crayon Shin-chan: Burst Serving! Kung Fu Boys ~Ramen Rebellion~	Wataru Takahashi	Akiko Yajima, Miki Narahashi, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Satomi Kōrogi, Mari Mashiba, Tamao Hayashi
	20	Inuysashiki	Shinsuke Sato	Noritake Kinashi, Takeru Satoh, Fumi Nikaidō, Kanata Hongō
	27	Batman Ninja	Junpei Mizusaki	Kōichi Yamadera, Wataru Takagi, Ai Kakuma, Roger Craig Smith, Tony Hale, Grey DeLisle
		My Little Monster	Sho Tsukikawa	Masaki Suda, Tao Tsuchiya, Yuki Furukawa, Yuki Yamada, Elaiza Ikeda
		Marmalade Boy	Ryūichi Hiroki	Hinako Sakurai, Ryo Yoshizawa, Miho Nakayama, Rei Dan
M A Y	4	Laplace's Witch	Takashi Miike	Sho Sakurai, Suzu Hirose, Sota Fukushi, Tao Okamoto, Masanobu Takashima, Mirai Shida
	5	PriPara and Kiratto Pri Chan the Movie!	Nobutaka Yoda	Coco Hayashi, Miyu Kubota, Nanami Atsugi, Himika Akaneya
	11	Love × Doc	Osamu Suzuki	Yō Yoshida, Shuhei Nomura, Kayoko Okubo, Atsushi Shinohara
	12	Last Hold!	Yukinori Makabe	Ryoichi Tsukada, Iwamoto Hikaru, Tatsuya Fukasawa, Shōta Watanabe
		The Blood of Wolves	Kazuya Shiraishi	Kōji Yakusho, Tori Matsuzaka, Yōko Maki, Kenichi Takito
	18	Nomitori Zamurai	Yasuo Tsuruhashi	Hiroshi Abe, Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Takumi Saito
		Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle	Hiroyuki Seshita, Kōbun Shizuno	Mamoru Miyano, Takahiro Sakurai, Tomokazu Sugita, Junichi Suwabe
	19	Kamen Rider Amazons the Movie: The Last Judgement	Hidenori Ishida	Tom Fujita, Masashi Taniguchi, Rena Takeda, Ayu Higashi, Mitsutoshi Shundo
	25	What a Wonderful Family 3!	Yoji Yamada	Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura, Yui Natsukawa
		My Friend: A	Takahisa Zeze	Toma Ikuta, Eita, Kōichi Satō, Kaho
		After the Rain	Akira Nagai	Nana Komatsu, Yo Oizumi, Nana Seino, Hayato Isomura, Shono Hayama
	26	Code Geass Lelouch of the Resurrection the Movie: Imperial Path	Gorō Taniguchi	Jun Fukuyama, Takahiro Sakurai, Yukana, Ami Koshimizu
		My Brother's Friend	Ryo Nakajima	Ryusei Yokohama, Risa Matsukaze, Kōdai Matsuoka, Tsuyoshi Furukawa
J U N E	1	Over Drive	Eiichirō Hasumi	Masahiro Higashide, Mackenyu, Aoi Morikawa, Takumi Kitamura, Keita Machida
		50 First Kiss	Yuichi Fukuda	Takayuki Yamada, Masami Nagasawa, Tsuyoshi Muro, Katsuya
	2	Peacemaker Kurogane	Hiroshi Takeuchi	Yūki Kaji, Yumiko Kobayashi, Jouji Nakata, Mitsuki Saiga
	8	A Forest of Wool and Steel	Kōjirō Hashimoto	Kento Yamazaki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Tomokazu Miura, Moka Kamishiraishi
		Shoplifters	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka, Sosuke Ikematsu
	9	Life in Overtime	Hideo Nakata	Hiroshi Tachi, Hitomi Kuroki, Ryōko Hirosue, Asami Usuda
	15	Recall	Katsuhide Motoki	Tomoya Nagase, Dean Fujioka, Issey Takahashi, Kyoko Fukada
	22	Yakiniku Dragon	Wui Shin Chong	Yōko Maki, Mao Inoue, Yo Oizumi, Nanami Sakuraba
	23	One Cut of the Dead	Shinichiro Ueda	Takayuki Hamatsu, Mao, Harumi Syuhama, Yuzuki Akiyama
		The Cat in His Arms	Isshin Inudo	Erika Sawajiri, Ryo Yoshizawa, Kazunobu Mineta, KOM_I
		Missions of Love	Toru Yamamoto	Tina Tamashiro, Yuta Koseki, Kanta Sato, Anna Yamada
	30	Punk Samurai Slash Down!	Gakuryū Ishii	Gō Ayano, Keiko Kitagawa, Masahiro Higashide, Shōta Sometani

July - September

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Ref(s)
J U L Y	6	Rainbow Days	Ken Iizuka	Reo Sano, Taishi Nakagawa, Mahiro Takasugi, Ryusei Yokohama
	7	You, Your, Yours	Daigo Matsui	Sosuke Ikematsu, Kim Kkot-bi, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Koji Okura
	13	Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us	Tetsuo Yajima	Rica Matsumoto, Ikue Ōtani, Megumi Hayashibara, Shinichiro Miki
	20	Bleach	Shinsuke Sato	Sota Fukushi, Hana Sugisaki, Ryo Yoshizawa, Taichi Saotome
		Mirai	Mamoru Hosoda	Moka Kamishiraishi, Haru Kuroki, Gen Hoshino, Kumiko Asō
	27	Code BLUE The Movie	Masaki Nishimura	Tomohisa Yamashita, Yui Aragaki, Erika Toda, Manami Higa, Ryo Narita, Yuko Araki, Fumika Baba, Mackenyu
A U G U S T	1	Sensei Kunshu	Sho Tsukikawa	Ryoma Takeuchi, Minami Hamabe, Taiki Sato, Rina Kawaei
		Ao-Natsu: Blue Summer	Takeshi Furusawa	Wakana Aoi, Hayato Sano, Seika Furuhata, Takumi Kizu
	3	My Hero Academia: Two Heroes	Kenji Nagasaki	Daiki Yamashita, Kenta Miyake, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Ayane Sakura
	4	Kamen Rider Build the Movie: Be The One	Kazuya Kamihoriuchi	Atsuhiro Inukai, Eiji Akaso, Kouhei Takeda, Kaho Takada, Yuki Ochi, Yukari Taki, Yukiaki Kiyama
	10	Flavors of Youth	Li Haoling, Jiaoshou Yi Xiaoxing, Yoshitaka Takeuchi	Taito Ban, Mariya Ise, Sayuri Sadaoka, Minako Kotobuki
	17	Penguin Highway	Hiroyasu Ishida	Kana Kita, Yū Aoi, Rie Kugimiya, Megumi Han
		Gintama 2	Yuichi Fukuda	Shun Oguri, Masaki Suda, Kanna Hashimoto, Yūya Yagira, Haruma Miura, Masataka Kubota, Ryo Yoshizawa, Masaki Okada, Tsuyoshi Muro
	18	The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky	Noriyuki Abe	Yūki Kaji, Sora Amamiya, Misaki Kuno, Aoi Yūki
	24	Killing for the Prosecutions	Masato Harada	Kazunari Ninomiya, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Yutaka Matsushige, Takehiro Hira
		Modest Heroes	Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiyuki Momose, Akihiko Yamashita	Fumino Kimura, Rio Suzuki, Machiko Ono, Kentaro Sakaguchi
	31	Sunny+	Hitoshi Ōne	Ryoko Shinohara, Suzu Hirose, Eiko Koike, Rie Tomosaka
S E P T E M B E R	1	I Want to Eat Your Pancreas	Shinichiro Ushijima	Mahiro Takasugi, Lynn, Yukiyo Fujii, Yuuma Uchida
		Amiko	Yoko Yamanaka	Aira Sunohara, Hiroro Oshita, Maiko Mineo
	7	FLCL Alternative n' Progressive the Movie!	Katsuyuki Motohiro	Mayumi Shintani, Karen Miyama, Yuri Yoshida, Megumi Hayashibara
		Kasane	Yūichi Satō	Kyoko Yoshine, Tao Tsuchiya, You Yokoyama, Mariko Tsutsui
		Shottan, The Miracle	Toshiaki Toyoda	Ryuhei Matsuda, Yojiro Noda, Kento Nagayama, Shōta Sometani
	14	Hibiki	Sho Tsukikawa	Yurina Hirate, Keiko Kitagawa, Ayaka Wilson, Shun Oguri
		3D Kanojo: Real Girl	Tsutomu Hanabusa	Ayami Nakajo, Hayato Sano, Hiroya Shimizu, Yuri Tsunematsu
	21	Eating Women	Jiro Shono	Kyōko Koizumi, Erika Sawajiri, Atsuko Maeda, Alice Hirose
		Cafe Funiculì, Funiculà	Tsukahara Ayuko	Kasumi Arimura, Kentaro Ito, Haru, Kento Hayashi
		My Dad is a Heel Wrestler!	Kyōhei Fujimura	Hiroshi Tanahashi, Yoshino Kimura, Kokoro Terada, Riisa Naka
	28	Samurai's Promise	Daisaku Kimura	Junichi Okada, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Haru Kuroki, Sosuke Ikematsu, Hirofumi Arai, Kyoko Yoshine, Yūya Yagira
	29	Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Tied to the Temporal World	Takahiro Omori, Hideaki Itō	Hiroshi Kamiya, Kazuhiko Inoue, Sanae Kobayashi, Miki Itō

October - December

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Ref(s)
O C T O B E R	5	You Are the Apple of My Eye	Yasuo Hasegawa	Yuki Yamada, Asuka Saitō, Muko Matsumoto, Takara Sakumoto
		Monster Strike the Movie: Sora no Kanata	Hiroshi Nishikiori	Masataka Kubota, Alice Hirose, Kōichi Yamadera, Yūsuke Kobayashi
		That's Trico	Ryo Miyawaki	Ryo Yoshizawa, Yuko Araki, Yosuke Sugino, Rio Uchida
		Perfect World	Kenji Shibayama	Takanori Iwata, Hana Sugisaki, Kenta Suga, Sei Ashina
	12	Lock-On Love!	Noboru Iguchi	Taishi Nakagawa, Erika Karata, Kentaro Ito, Shouma Kai
		LOUDER!: Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!	Satoshi Miki	Sadao Abe, Riho Yoshioka, Yudai Chiba, Kumiko Asō
	13	Every Day A Good Day	Tatsushi Ōmori	Haru Kuroki, Kirin Kiki, Mikako Tabe, Mayu Harada
	19	It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up	Ryūichi Hiroki	Ai Hashimoto, Mugi Kadowaki, Ryo Narita, Daichi Watanabe
		Gekijōban Haikara-san ga Tōru Kōhen - Tokyo Dai Roman	Kazuhiro Furuhashi, Toshiaki Kidokoro	Saori Hayami, Mamoru Miyano, Takahiro Sakurai, Kazuya Nakai
		Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Detonation	Takayuki Hamana	Cast: Yukari Tamura, Nana Mizuki, Kana Ueda, Haruka Tomatsu
		Million Dollar Man	Keishi Otomo	Takeru Satoh, Issey Takahashi, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kazuki Kitamura
	26	The Travelling Cat Chronicles	Koichiro Miki	Sota Fukushi, Mitsuki Takahata, Alice Hirose, Takurō Ōno
		Oz Land	Takafumi Hatano, Toshiaki Kidokoro	Haru, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Amane Okayama, Motoki Fukami
N O V E M B E R	1	Memories of the Antique Books	Yukiko Mishima	Haru Kuroki, Shūhei Nomura, Ryo Narita, Kaho
	2	Stolen Identity	Hideo Nakata	Keiko Kitagawa, Yudai Chiba, Bakarhythm, Jun Kaname
	3	Run! T High School Basketball Club!	Takeshi Furusawa	Jun Shison, Hayato Sano, Akari Hayami, Junki Tozuka
	9	Godzilla: The Planet Eater	Hiroyuki Seshita, Kōbun Shizuno	Mamoru Miyano, Takahiro Sakurai, Tomokazu Sugita, Junichi Suwabe
	16	The House Where The Mermaid Sleeps	Yukihiko Tsutsumi	Ryoko Shinohara, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Rina Kawaei
		No Matter How My Mom Hates Me	Osamu Minorikawa	Taiga, Yō Yoshida, Win Morisaki, Shunya Shiraishi
	23	Gangoose	Yu Irie	Mahiro Takasugi, Ryo Kato, Daichi Watanabe, Kento Hayashi
		Hard Core	Nobuhiro Yamashita	Takayuki Yamada, Takeru Satoh, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Kei Ishibashi
	30	Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative	Shunichi Yoshizawa	Junya Enoki, Tomo Muranaka, Ayu Matsuura
		Our Departures: Railways 3	Yasuhiro Yoshida	Kasumi Arimura, Jun Kunimura, Nanami Sakuraba, Tatsunari Kiyama
D E C E M B E R	7	It Comes	Tetsuya Nakashima	Junichi Okada, Haru Kuroki, Nana Komatsu, Takako Matsu
	14	Waiting for Spring	Yuichiro Hirakawa	Tao Tsuchiya, Takumi Kitamura, Yuta Koseki, Hayato Isomura
		Dragon Ball Super: Broly	Tatsuya Nagamine	Masako Nozawa, Ryō Horikawa, Ryūsei Nakao, Bin Shimada
		Yo-kai Watch: Forever Friends	Shigeharu Takahashi	Shun Oguri, Chiemi Blouson, Nao Tōyama, Etsuko Kozakura
	21	NISEKOI	Hayato Kawai	Kento Nakajima, Ayami Nakajo, Natsumi Ikema, Haruka Shimazaki
	22	Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever	Kyohei Yamaguchi	So Okuno, Gaku Oshida, Ōhata Shieri, Keisuke Watanabe, Atsuhiro Inukai, Eiji Akaso, Kaho Takada, Kouhei Takeda, Kensei Mikami, Nayuta Fukuzaki
	28	A Banana? At This Time of Night?!	Tetsu Maeda	Cast: Yo Oizumi, Mitsuki Takahata, Haruma Miura, Masato Hagiwara

See also

• 2018 in Japan
• 2018 in Japanese television
• List of 2018 box office number-one films in Japan

External links

• Japanese films of 2018 at IMDb

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