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	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
		Garakowa: Restore the World	Masashi Ishihama	Yumiri Hanamori, Ayane Sakura, Risa Taneda
		Jinsei no Yakusoku	Kan Ishibashi	Yutaka Takenouchi, Yōsuke Eguchi, Tori Matsuzaka, Yūka
	9	King of Prism Series	Masakazu Hishida	Tetsuya Kakihara, Tomoaki Maeno, Toshiki Masuda, Shinichiro Miki
		Pink and Gray	Isao Yukisada	Yuto Nakajima, Masaki Suda, Kaho, Yukino Kishii
	22	Persona 3 The Movie: No. 4, Winter of Rebirth	Tomohisa Taguchi	Akira Ishida, Megumi Toyoguchi, Kōsuke Toriumi, Rie Tanaka
		Nobunaga Concerto	Hiroaki Matsuyama	Shun Oguri, Kō Shibasaki, Osamu Mukai, Takayuki Yamada
	29	Saraba Abunai Deka: Final 5 Days	Toru Murakawa	Hiroshi Tachi, Kyōhei Shibata, Atsuko Asano, Tōru Nakamura
		The Inerasable	Yoshihiro Nakamura	Yūko Takeuchi, Ai Hashimoto, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Kenichi Takitō
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
	12	selector destructed WIXOSS	Takuya Satō	Ai Kakuma, Ayane Sakura, Ai Kayano, Chinatsu Akasaki
		Lychee Light Club	Eisuke Naito	Shuhei Nomura, Yuki Furukawa, Shotaro Mamiya, Ayami Nakajo
		Children of Iron	Koki Fukuyama	Tomoko Tobata, Jyonmyon Pe, Taishi Sato, Mau Konishi
	26	Defying Kurosaki-kun	Shō Tsukikawa	Kento Nakajima, Nana Komatsu, Yudai Chiba, Sara Takatsuki
	27	Tantei Opera Milky Holmes the Movie: Milky Holmes' Counterattack	Hiroaki Sakurai	Suzuko Mimori, Sora Tokui, Mikoi Sasaki, Izumi Kitta
M A R C H	4	Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation	Kōji Maeda	Kanna Hashimoto, Hiroki Hasegawa, Masanobu Andō, Takurō Ōno
		Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016	Shinnosuke Yakuwa	Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Ohara, Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Tomokazu Seki
	11	PriPara Minna no Akogare Let's Go PriPari	Makoto Moriwaki	Yuri Chinen, Taishi Nakagawa, Nana Komatsu, Erina Mano
		What a Wonderful Family!	Yoji Yamada	Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura, Yui Natsukawa
		Everest: The Summit of the Gods	Hideyuki Hirayama	Junichi Okada, Hiroshi Abe, Machiko Ono, Pierre Taki
	18	Chihayafuru Part 1	Norihiro Koizumi	Suzu Hirose, Shuhei Nomura, Mackenyu, Mone Kamishiraishi
		Erased	Yūichirō Hirakawa	Rie Hosaka, Rina Honnizumi, Yui Ogura, Konomi Tada
		Pretty Cure All Stars: Singing with Everyone♪ Miraculous Magic!	Yutaka Tsuchida	Rie Hosaka, Rina Honnizumi, Yui Ogura, Konomi Tada
	25	Assassination Classroom: Graduation	Eiichirō Hasumi	Sota Fukushi, Yuma Nakayama, Yuki Furukawa, Renn Kiriyama

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
	8	Joshikō	Kōki Yamamoto	Minami Minegishi, Riho Takada, Haru Izumi, Erina Nakayama
	15	Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer	Kōbun Shizuno	Minami Takayama, Wakana Yamazaki, Rikiya Koyama, Tōru Furuya
		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
	22	I've Always Liked You	Tetsuya Yanagisawa	Hiroshi Kamiya, Haruka Tomatsu, Yūki Kaji, Kana Asumi
		Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions	Satoshi Kuwabara	Shunsuke Kazama, Kenjiro Tsuda, Hiroki Takahashi, Maki Saitō
		I Am a Hero	Shinsuke Sato	Yo Oizumi, Kasumi Arimura, Masami Nagasawa, Hisashi Yoshizawa
	23	Sound! Euphonium: The Movie – Welcome to the Kitauji High School Concert Band	Tatsuya Ishihara	Tomoyo Kurosawa, Ayaka Asai, Moe Toyota, Chika Anzai
	29	Terra Formars	Takashi Miike	Hideaki Itō, Emi Takei, Tomohisa Yamashita, Takayuki Yamada
		Chihayafuru Part 2	Norihiro Koizumi	Suzu Hirose, Shuhei Nomura, Mackenyu, Mone Kamishiraishi
M A Y	6	64: Part I	Takahisa Zeze	Kōichi Satō, Nana Eikura, Gō Ayano, Yui Natsukawa
	13	The Whispering Star	Sion Sono	Megumi Kagurazaka, Kenji Endō, Yūto Ikeda
		Hentai Kamen: Abnormal Crisis	Yūichi Fukuda	Ryohei Suzuki, Fumika Shimizu, Yūya Yagira, Tsuyoshi Muro
		If Cats Disappeared from the World	Akira Nagai	Takeru Satoh, Aoi Miyazaki, Gaku Hamada, Eita Okuno
	20	After the Storm	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Yōko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi
	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
	27	Wolf Girl and Black Prince	Ryūichi Hiroki	Fumi Nikaidō, Kento Yamazaki, Mugi Kadowaki, Ryusei Yokohama
		Himeanole	Keisuke Yoshida	Gō Morita, Gaku Hamada, Aimi Satsukawa, Tsuyoshi Muro
J U N E	4	The Kodais	Masato Hijikata	Haruka Ayase, Takumi Saito, Kiko Mizuhara, Shotaro Mamiya
		Evergreen Love	Kōichirō Miki	Takanori Iwata, Mitsuki Takahata, Hana Imai, Joji Abe
	10	64: Part II	Takahisa Zeze	Kōichi Satō, Nana Eikura, Gō Ayano, Yui Natsukawa
	17	Sadako vs. Kayako	Kōji Shiraishi	Mizuki Yamamoto, Tina Tamashiro, Masahiro Komoto, Masanobu Andō
		CREEPY	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yūko Takeuchi, Haruna Kawaguchi, Masahiro Higashide
	18	Mars	Saiji Yakumo	Taisuke Fujigaya, Masataka Kubota, Marie Iitoyo, Hirona Yamazaki
	24	Twisted Justice	Kazuya Shiraishi	Gō Ayano, YOUNG DAIS, Yukio Ueno, Haruna Yabuki
		Too Young to Die! Wakakushite Shinu	Kankurō Kudō	Tomoya Nagase, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Machiko Ono, Aoi Morikawa

July - September

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

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
		The Good Morning Show!	Ryoichi Kimizuka	Kiichi Nakai, Masami Nagasawa, Mirai Shida, Saburō Tokitō
	8	My Dad and Mr. Ito	Yuki Tanada	Juri Ueno, Tatsuya Fuji, Lily Franky, Tomoharu Hasegawa
	14	The Long Excuse	Miwa Nishikawa	Masahiro Motoki, Eri Fukatsu, Pistol Takehara, Kenshin Fujita
		Gantz: O	Keiichi Sato	Daisuke Ono, M.A.O, Tomohiro Kaku, Saori Hayami
		Somebody	Daisuke Miura	Takeru Satoh, Masaki Suda, Kasumi Arimura, Fumi Nikaidō
	15	Zegapain ADP	Masami Shimoda	Shintarō Asanuma, Kana Hanazawa, Ayako Kawasumi, Romi Park
	28	Her Love Boils Bathwater	Ryōta Nakano	Rie Miyazawa, Hana Sugisaki, Joe Odagiri, Tori Matsuzaka
	29	Death Note: Light Up the New World	Shinsuke Sato	Masahiro Higashide, Sosuke Ikematsu, Masaki Suda, Erika Toda, Rina Kawaei
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
		Drowning Love	Yūki Yamato	Nana Komatsu, Masaki Suda, Daiki Shigeoka, Mone Kamishiraishi
	11	In This Corner of the World	Sunao Katabuchi	Rena Nōnen, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Mayumi Shintani, Shigeru Ushiyama
		Museum	Keishi Ōtomo	Shun Oguri, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Machiko Ono, Shūhei Nomura
	18	Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow	Yoshitaka Mori	Kenichi Matsuyama, Masahiro Higashide, Lily Franky, Keiko Takeshita
	25	KanColle: The Movie	Keizō Kusakawa	Sumire Uesaka, Rina Hidaka, Yumi Tanibe, Saki Fujita
		Itazura na Kiss the Movie ~High School-Hen~	Minoru Mizoguchi	Kanta Satō, Reina Bisa, Nonoka Yamaguchi, Simon Ohkura
	26	Shippu Rondo	Teruyuki Yoshida	Hiroshi Abe, Tadayoshi Okura, Yuko Oshima, Tsuyoshi Muro
D E C E M B E R	9	Monster Strike The Movie	Shinpei Ezaki	Maaya Sakamoto, Tomo Muranaka, Yūsuke Kobayashi, Lynn
		Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate	Takashi Yamazaki	Junichi Okada, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Shōta Sometani, Tōru Nomaguchi
	14	The Moment You Fall in Love	Tetsuya Yanagisawa	Momo Asakura, Natsuki Hanae, Tsubasa Yonaga, Yoshimasa Hosoya
		My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday	Takahiro Miki	Sota Fukushi, Nana Komatsu, Masahiro Higashide, Yuki Yamada
		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
	23	Pop in Q	Naoki Miyahara	Asami Seto, Shiori Izawa, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Atsumi Tanezaki
		The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio	Takashi Miike	Toma Ikuta, Eita, Tsubasa Honda, Shinichi Tsutsumi
	31	Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress Pt.1	Nobuhiro Yamashita, Tetsurō Araki	Tasuku Hatanaka, Sayaka Senbongi, Maaya Uchida, Toshiki Masuda

See also

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

External links

• Japanese films of 2016 at IMDb

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• The Japan Times "Shippu Rondo" https://www.japantimes.co.jp/films/shippu-rondo/#.Wau_hjBLe70