List of Japanese films of 2016

A list of Japanese films that were first released in 2016.

Highest-grossing films

The following is a list of the 10 highest-grossing Japanese films at the Japanese box office during 2016.

Rank	Title	Gross[1]
1	Your Name	¥21.32 billion (US$182.2 million)
2	Shin Godzilla	¥8.11 billion (US$69.3 million)
3	Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare	¥6.33 billion (US$54.1 million)
4	Yo-kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!	¥5.53 billion (US$47.3 million)
5	One Piece Film: Gold	¥5.20 billion (US$44.4 million)
6	Nobunaga Concerto: The Movie	¥4.61 billion (US$42.6 million)
7	Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016	¥4.12 billion (US$58.4 million)
8	Assassination Classroom: Graduation	¥3.52 billion (US$32.6 million)
9	Orange	¥3.25 billion (US$28.2 million)
10	Girls und Panzer der Film	¥2.40 billion (US$22.9 million)

Film releases

January – March

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Ref(s)
J A N U A R Y	8	Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu	Tatsuya Oishi	Hiroshi Kamiya, Maaya Sakamoto, Yui Horie, Takahiro Sakurai, Miyu Irino, Masashi Ebara	[2][3]
		Garakowa: Restore the World	Masashi Ishihama	Yumiri Hanamori, Ayane Sakura, Risa Taneda	[4][5]
		Jinsei no Yakusoku	Kan Ishibashi	Yutaka Takenouchi, Yōsuke Eguchi, Tori Matsuzaka, Yūka	[6][7][8][9]
	9	King of Prism Series	Masakazu Hishida	Tetsuya Kakihara, Tomoaki Maeno, Toshiki Masuda, Shinichiro Miki	[10][11]
		Pink and Gray	Isao Yukisada	Yuto Nakajima, Masaki Suda, Kaho, Yukino Kishii	[12][13]
	22	Persona 3 The Movie: No. 4, Winter of Rebirth	Tomohisa Taguchi	Akira Ishida, Megumi Toyoguchi, Kōsuke Toriumi, Rie Tanaka	[14][15]
		Nobunaga Concerto	Hiroaki Matsuyama	Shun Oguri, Kō Shibasaki, Osamu Mukai, Takayuki Yamada, Kiko Mizuhara, Arata Furuta	[16][17]
	29	Dangerous Cops: Final 5 Days	Toru Murakawa	Hiroshi Tachi, Kyōhei Shibata, Atsuko Asano, Tōru Nakamura	[18][19]
		The Inerasable	Yoshihiro Nakamura	Yūko Takeuchi, Ai Hashimoto, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Kenichi Takitō	[20][21]
F E B R U A R Y	6	New Initial D the Movie Legend 3: Dream	Masamitsu Hidaka, Tomohito Naka	Mamoru Miyano, Hiroaki Hirata, Maaya Uchida, Hiroshi Tsuchida	[22]
	12	selector destructed WIXOSS	Takuya Satō	Ai Kakuma, Ayane Sakura, Ai Kayano, Chinatsu Akasaki	[23]
		Lychee Light Club	Eisuke Naito	Shuhei Nomura, Yuki Furukawa, Shotaro Mamiya, Ayami Nakajo	[24][25]
		Children of Iron	Koki Fukuyama	Tomoko Tobata, Jyonmyon Pe, Taishi Sato, Mau Konishi	[26]
	26	Defying Kurosaki-kun	Shō Tsukikawa	Kento Nakajima, Nana Komatsu, Yudai Chiba, Sara Takatsuki	[27][28]
	27	Tantei Opera Milky Holmes the Movie: Milky Holmes' Counterattack	Hiroaki Sakurai	Suzuko Mimori, Sora Tokui, Mikoi Sasaki, Izumi Kitta	[29][30]
M A R C H	4	Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation	Kōji Maeda	Kanna Hashimoto, Hiroki Hasegawa, Masanobu Andō, Takurō Ōno	[31][32][33]
		Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016	Shinnosuke Yakuwa	Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Ohara, Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Tomokazu Seki	[34][35][36]
	11	PriPara Minna no Akogare Let's Go PriPari	Makoto Moriwaki	Yuri Chinen, Taishi Nakagawa, Nana Komatsu, Erina Mano	[37][38][39]
		What a Wonderful Family!	Yoji Yamada	Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura, Yui Natsukawa	[40][41]
		Everest: The Summit of the Gods	Hideyuki Hirayama	Junichi Okada, Hiroshi Abe, Machiko Ono, Pierre Taki	[42][43]
	18	Chihayafuru Part 1	Norihiro Koizumi	Suzu Hirose, Shuhei Nomura, Mackenyu, Mone Kamishiraishi	[44][45]
		Erased	Yūichirō Hirakawa	Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kasumi Arimura, Rio Suzuki, Tsubasa Nakagawa, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Tetta Sugimoto, Yuriko Ishida	[46][47][48]
		Pretty Cure All Stars: Singing with Everyone♪ Miraculous Magic!	Yutaka Tsuchida	Rie Hosaka, Rina Honnizumi, Yui Ogura, Konomi Tada	[49][50][51]
	25	Assassination Classroom: Graduation	Eiichirō Hasumi	Sota Fukushi, Yuma Nakayama, Yuki Furukawa, Renn Kiriyama	[52][53][54][55]

April - June

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Ref(s)
A P R I L	6	Tamayura ~Sotsugyō Shashin~ Part 4: Ashita	Junichi Sato	Ayana Taketatsu, Kana Asumi, Yuko Gibu, Yuka Iguchi	[56][57]
	8	Joshikō	Kōki Yamamoto	Minami Minegishi, Riho Takada, Haru Izumi, Erina Nakayama	[58][59]
	15	Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer	Kōbun Shizuno	Minami Takayama, Wakana Yamazaki, Rikiya Koyama, Tōru Furuya	[60][61]
		Crayon Shin-chan: Fast Asleep! The Great Assault on Dreamy World!	Wataru Takahashi	Akiko Yajima, Miki Narahashi, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Satomi Kōrogi, Mari Mashiba, Tamao Hayashi	[62][63][64]
	22	I've Always Liked You	Tetsuya Yanagisawa	Hiroshi Kamiya, Haruka Tomatsu, Yūki Kaji, Kana Asumi	[65][66]
		Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions	Satoshi Kuwabara	Shunsuke Kazama, Kenjiro Tsuda, Hiroki Takahashi, Maki Saitō	[67][68]
		I Am a Hero	Shinsuke Sato	Yo Oizumi, Kasumi Arimura, Masami Nagasawa, Hisashi Yoshizawa	[69][70]
	23	Sound! Euphonium: The Movie – Welcome to the Kitauji High School Concert Band	Tatsuya Ishihara	Tomoyo Kurosawa, Ayaka Asai, Moe Toyota, Chika Anzai	[71][72]
	29	Terra Formars	Takashi Miike	Hideaki Itō, Emi Takei, Tomohisa Yamashita, Takayuki Yamada	[73][74][75]
		Chihayafuru Part 2	Norihiro Koizumi	Suzu Hirose, Shuhei Nomura, Mackenyu, Mone Kamishiraishi	[76][45]
M A Y	6	64: Part I	Takahisa Zeze	Kōichi Satō, Nana Eikura, Gō Ayano, Yui Natsukawa	[77][78]
	13	The Whispering Star	Sion Sono	Megumi Kagurazaka, Kenji Endō, Yūto Ikeda	[79][80]
		Hentai Kamen: Abnormal Crisis	Yūichi Fukuda	Ryohei Suzuki, Fumika Shimizu, Yūya Yagira, Tsuyoshi Muro	[81][82]
		If Cats Disappeared from the World	Akira Nagai	Takeru Satoh, Aoi Miyazaki, Gaku Hamada, Eita Okuno	[83][84][85][86]
	20	After the Storm	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Yōko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi	[87][88][89]
	21	Destruction Babies	Tatsuya Mariko	Yūya Yagira, Masaki Suda, Nijiro Murakami, Nana Komatsu, Sosuke Ikematsu, Takumi Kitamura
		Garo: Divine Flame	Yuichiro Hayashi	Daisuke Namikawa, Katsuhito Nomura, Romi Park, Kenyu Horiuchi, Miyu Tomita, Arisa Komiya, Masato Hagiwara	[90][91]
	27	Wolf Girl and Black Prince	Ryūichi Hiroki	Fumi Nikaidō, Kento Yamazaki, Mugi Kadowaki, Ryusei Yokohama	[92][93][94]
		Himeanole	Keisuke Yoshida	Gō Morita, Gaku Hamada, Aimi Satsukawa, Tsuyoshi Muro	[95][96]
J U N E	4	The Kodais	Masato Hijikata	Haruka Ayase, Takumi Saito, Kiko Mizuhara, Shotaro Mamiya	[97][98][99][100]
		Evergreen Love	Kōichirō Miki	Takanori Iwata, Mitsuki Takahata, Hana Imai, Joji Abe	[101][102]
	10	64: Part II	Takahisa Zeze	Kōichi Satō, Nana Eikura, Gō Ayano, Yui Natsukawa	[77][78]
	17	Sadako vs. Kayako	Kōji Shiraishi	Mizuki Yamamoto, Tina Tamashiro, Masahiro Komoto, Masanobu Andō	[103][104]
		CREEPY	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yūko Takeuchi, Haruna Kawaguchi, Masahiro Higashide	[105][106][107]
	18	Mars	Saiji Yakumo	Taisuke Fujigaya, Masataka Kubota, Marie Iitoyo, Hirona Yamazaki	[108][109]
	24	Twisted Justice	Kazuya Shiraishi	Gō Ayano, YOUNG DAIS, Yukio Ueno, Haruna Yabuki	[110][111]
		Too Young to Die!	Kankurō Kudō	Tomoya Nagase, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Machiko Ono, Aoi Morikawa	[112][113][114]

July - September

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Ref(s)
J U L Y	1	Setoutsumi	Tatsushi Ōmori	Sosuke Ikematsu, Masaki Suda, Ayami Nakajo, Takuji Suzuki	[115][116]
	8	Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV	Takeshi Nozue	Gō Ayano, Shiori Kutsuna, Tsutomu Isobe, Shōzō Iizuka	[117][118]
	15	High & Low: The Movie Series	Shigeaki Kubo	Akira, Sho Aoyagi, Hiroyuki Takaya, Yushin Okami	[119][120]
		Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel	Kunihiko Yuyama	Rica Matsumoto, Ikue Ōtani, Megumi Hayashibara, Shinichiro Miki	[121][122]
	22	Accel World: Infinite Burst	Masakazu Obara	Sachika Misawa, Yūki Kaji, Aki Toyosaki, Shintarō Asanuma	[123][124]
		One Piece Film: Gold	Hiroaki Miyamoto	Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi	[125][126]
	29	Shin Godzilla	Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi	Hiroki Hasegawa, Satomi Ishihara, Yutaka Takenouchi, Kengo Kora	[127][128]
	30	Corpse Party Book of Shadows	Masafumi Yamada	Rina Ikoma, Ryōsuke Ikeoka, Nozomi Maeda, Ren Ishikawa	[129][130]
A U G U S T	5	Rudolf the Black Cat	Kunihiko Yuyama	Ryohei Suzuki, Mao Inoue, Akio Ōtsuka, Arata Furuta	[131][132][133]
	13	Aikatsu!: The Targeted Magical Aikatsu Card and Aikatsu Stars!	Shin'ya Watada, Ryuichi Kimura	Sumire Morohoshi, Azusa Tadokoro, Ayaka Ōhashi, Miyu Tomita	[134][135]
	19	Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu	Akiyuki Shinbo, Tatsuya Oishi	Hiroshi Kamiya, Maaya Sakamoto, Yui Horie, Takahiro Sakurai, Miyu Irino, Masashi Ebara	[3][136][137][138]
		Aozora Yell	Takahiro Miki	Tao Tsuchiya, Ryoma Takeuchi, Shōno Hayama, Arata Horii	[139][140]
	26	Your Name	Makoto Shinkai	Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Masami Nagasawa, Etsuko Ichihara	[141][142]
S E P T E M B E R	2	Planetarian: Storyteller of the Stars	Naokatsu Tsuda	Daisuke Ono, Keiko Suzuki, Tamio Ōki, Sanae Fukui	[143][144][145]
	9	Your Lie in April	Takehiko Shinjō	Kento Yamazaki, Suzu Hirose, Anna Ishii, Taishi Nakagawa	[146][147][148]
	16	A Silent Voice	Naoko Yamada	Miyu Irino, Saori Hayami, Aoi Yūki, Kenshō Ono	[149][150]
		Rage	Lee Sang-il	Ken Watanabe, Mirai Moriyama, Kenichi Matsuyama, Gō Ayano	[151][152]
		Over the Fence	Nobuhiro Yamashita	Joe Odagiri, Yū Aoi, Shota Matsuda, Yukiya Kitamura	[153][154]
	30	SCOOP!	Hitoshi Ōne	Masaharu Fukuyama, Fumi Nikaidō, Yō Yoshida, Kenichi Takito	[155][156][157]
		Cutie Honey: Tears	Asai Takeshi	Mariya Nishiuchi, Takahiro Miura, Nicole Ishida, Sousuke Takaoka	[158][159][160]

October - December

Opening		Title	Director	Cast	Ref(s)
O C T O B E R	7	Night's Tightrope	Yukiko Mishima	Tsubasa Honda, Mizuki Yamamoto, Mackenyu, Ryo Sato	[161][162][163]
		The Good Morning Show!	Ryoichi Kimizuka	Kiichi Nakai, Masami Nagasawa, Mirai Shida, Saburō Tokitō	[164][165][166]
	8	My Dad and Mr. Ito	Yuki Tanada	Juri Ueno, Tatsuya Fuji, Lily Franky, Tomoharu Hasegawa	[167]
	14	The Long Excuse	Miwa Nishikawa	Masahiro Motoki, Eri Fukatsu, Pistol Takehara, Kenshin Fujita	[168][169][170]
		Gantz: O	Keiichi Sato	Daisuke Ono, M.A.O, Tomohiro Kaku, Saori Hayami	[171][172][173]
		Someone	Daisuke Miura	Takeru Satoh, Masaki Suda, Kasumi Arimura, Fumi Nikaidō	[174][175]
	15	Zegapain ADP	Masami Shimoda	Shintarō Asanuma, Kana Hanazawa, Ayako Kawasumi, Romi Park	[176][177]
	28	Her Love Boils Bathwater	Ryōta Nakano	Rie Miyazawa, Hana Sugisaki, Joe Odagiri, Tori Matsuzaka	[178][179]
	29	Death Note: Light Up the New World	Shinsuke Sato	Masahiro Higashide, Sosuke Ikematsu, Masaki Suda, Erika Toda, Rina Kawaei	[180][181][182][183]
N O V E M B E R	4	Galactic Armored Fleet Majestic Prince: Genetic Awakening	Keitaro Motonaga	Hiroki Aiba, Yōko Hikasa, Yuka Iguchi, Junya Ikeda	[184][185][186]
		Drowning Love	Yūki Yamato	Nana Komatsu, Masaki Suda, Daiki Shigeoka, Mone Kamishiraishi	[187][188][189]
	11	In This Corner of the World	Sunao Katabuchi	Rena Nōnen, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Mayumi Shintani, Shigeru Ushiyama	[190][191]
		Museum	Keishi Ōtomo	Shun Oguri, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Machiko Ono, Shūhei Nomura	[192][193]
	18	Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow	Yoshitaka Mori	Kenichi Matsuyama, Masahiro Higashide, Lily Franky, Keiko Takeshita	[194][195][196]
	25	KanColle: The Movie	Keizō Kusakawa	Sumire Uesaka, Rina Hidaka, Yumi Tanibe, Saki Fujita	[197][198][199][200]
		Itazura na Kiss the Movie ~High School-Hen~	Minoru Mizoguchi	Kanta Satō, Reina Bisa, Nonoka Yamaguchi, Simon Ohkura	[201][202]
	26	Shippu Rondo	Teruyuki Yoshida	Hiroshi Abe, Tadayoshi Okura, Yuko Oshima, Tsuyoshi Muro	[203][204]
D E C E M B E R	9	Monster Strike The Movie	Shinpei Ezaki	Maaya Sakamoto, Tomo Muranaka, Yūsuke Kobayashi, Lynn	[205][206][207]
		Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate	Takashi Yamazaki	Junichi Okada, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Shōta Sometani, Tōru Nomaguchi	[208][209][210]
	14	The Moment You Fall in Love	Tetsuya Yanagisawa	Momo Asakura, Natsuki Hanae, Tsubasa Yonaga, Yoshimasa Hosoya	[211][212]
		My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday	Takahiro Miki	Sota Fukushi, Nana Komatsu, Masahiro Higashide, Yuki Yamada	[213][214][215]
		Yo-kai Watch: Soratobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daibōken da Nyan!	Shigeharu Takahashi, Shinji Ushiro	Ryōka Minamide, Haruka Tomatsu, Tomokazu Seki, Etsuko Kozakura	[216][217]
	23	Pop in Q	Naoki Miyahara	Asami Seto, Shiori Izawa, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Atsumi Tanezaki	[218][219]
		The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio	Takashi Miike	Toma Ikuta, Eita, Tsubasa Honda, Shinichi Tsutsumi	[220][221][222]
	31	Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress Pt.1	Nobuhiro Yamashita, Tetsurō Araki	Tasuku Hatanaka, Sayaka Senbongi, Maaya Uchida, Toshiki Masuda	[223][224]

See also

• 2016 in Japan
• 2016 in Japanese television
• List of 2016 box office number-one films in Japan