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List of Japanese films of 2022
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This is a list of Japanese films released in 2022.
Highest-grossing films
Worldwide
The following is a list of the top ten highest-grossing Japanese films from 2022 at the worldwide box office.
† Background shading indicates films playing in the week commencing 14 June 2024 in theaters around the world.
| Rank | Title | Gross | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suzume † | $304,466,908 | [1] |
| 2 | One Piece Film: Red | $246,570,000 | [2] |
| 3 | The First Slam Dunk † | $232,893,000 | [3] |
| 4 | Jujutsu Kaisen 0 | $196,290,952 | [4] |
| 5 | Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween | $92,005,000 | [5] |
| 6 | Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero | $86,562,140 | [6] |
| 7 | Kingdom 2: Far and Away | $39,353,000 | [7] |
| 8 | Shin Ultraman | $35,000,000 | [7][8] |
| 9 | 99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie | $23,000,000 | [7] |
| 10 | The Last 10 Years | $22,880,000 | [7] |
| Silent Parade | $22,880,000 |
Japan
The following is a list of the top ten highest-grossing Japanese films released at the Japanese box office during 2022.
| Rank | Title | Gross[7] |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Piece Film: Red | ¥19.70 billion ($150.24 million) |
| 2 | Jujutsu Kaisen 0 | ¥13.80 billion ($105.25 million) |
| 3 | Suzume | ¥13.15 billion ($100.29 million) |
| 4 | Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween | ¥9.78 billion ($74.59 million) |
| 5 | Kingdom 2: Far and Away | ¥5.16 billion ($39.35 million) |
| 6 | Shin Ultraman | ¥4.44 billion ($33.86 million) |
| 7 | 99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie | ¥3.01 billion ($22.96 million) |
| 8 | The Last 10 Years | ¥3.00 billion ($22.88 million) |
| Silent Parade | ¥3.00 billion ($22.88 million) | |
| 10 | The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Hero | ¥2.89 billion ($22.04 million) |
Box office records
- The anime films Suzume and The First Slam Dunk set several box office records.
- In South Korea, The First Slam Dunk became the highest-grossing anime film, before its record was surpassed by Suzume.[9]
- In China, Suzume became the highest-grossing anime film.[9] It also set the record for the biggest opening for an anime film in China, before its record was surpassed by The First Slam Dunk.[10]
- The First Slam Dunk also set Chinese box office records for the highest pre-sales for an animated import,[11] and the largest IMAX opening weekend for a foreign animated film.[12]
Film releases
January–March
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Ref(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J A N U A R Y |
1 | BanG Dream! Poppin' Dream! | Kōdai Kakimoto | Aimi, Sae Ōtsuka, Rimi Nishimoto, Ayaka Ōhashi, Ayasa Itō | [13][14] |
| 7 | My Brother, The Android and Me | Junji Sakamoto | Etsushi Toyokawa, Masanobu Ando, Yuki Kazamatsuri, Hirotarō Honda, Yuki Katayama, Taijirō Tamura | [15] | |
| Truth | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Kotoha Hiroyama, Ayano Fukumiya, Tomomi Kono | [16][17] | ||
| Bungo Stray Dogs The Movie: Beast | Koichi Sakamoto | Shohei Hashimoto, Yūki Torigoe, Masashi Taniguchi, Teruma, Ryōki Nagae, Kōsuke Kuwano | [18] | ||
| The Sunday Runoff | Yūichirō Sakashita | Masataka Kubota, Rie Miyazawa, Eiji Akaso, Chika Uchida, Mantaro Koichi | [19] | ||
| 14 | The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Hero | Akira Tanaka | Masami Nagasawa, Masahiro Higashide, Fumiyo Kohinata, Shinya Kote, Yōsuke Eguchi, Nagisa Sekimizu, Risa Oda, Ryōko Hirosue | [20] | |
| The World for Two of Us | Kashou Iizuka | Yuki Katayama, Ryota Bando, Goichi Mine, Kanako Mochida, Miyu Teshima, Miharu Tanaka | [21] | ||
| What's With That | Shinpei Yamazaki | Shirō Shimomoto, Setsuko Karasuma, Kazuma Sano, Misa Wada, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Bunmei Tobayama | [22] | ||
| Poprun | Shinichiro Ueda | Nobuji Minagawa, Hidenobu Abera, Eri Tokunaga, Harumi Shuhama, Yuka Iseki, Hideki Nagai | [23] | ||
| 21 | Missing | Shinzō Katayama | Jiro Sato, Aoi Ito, Hiroya Shimizu, Misato Morita, Shotaro Ishitadashi, Izumi Matsuoka | [24] | |
| The Midnight Maiden War | Ken Ninomiya | Ren Nagase, Elaiza Ikeda, Tasuku Emoto, Makiko Watanabe, Yushin Shinohara, Akinori Ando | [25] | ||
| 28 | Noise | Ryūichi Hiroki | Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Ryūnosuke Kamiki, Haru Kuroki, Ayumi Ito, Daichi Watanabe | [26] | |
| Pure Japanese | Daishi Matsunaga | Dean Fujioka, Aju Makita, Tetsu Watanabe, Daichi Kaneko, Yukio Sakaguchi, Ryutaro Ninomiya | [27] | ||
| The Orbital Children | Mitsuo Iso | Natsumi Fujiwara, Azumi Waki, Kensho Ono, Chinatsu Akasaki, Yumiko Kobayashi, Mariya Ise | [28][29] | ||
| The Unnameable Dance | Isshin Inudo | Min Tanaka, Rin Ishihara, Tatsuya Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide, Lajko Felix, Seigō Matsuoka | [30] | ||
| Prior Convictions | Yoshiyuki Kishi | Kasumi Arimura, Go Morita, Ryuya Wakaba, Makita Sports, Shizuka Ishibashi, Yukiya Kitamura | [31] | ||
| Kamen Rider Saber: Trio of Deep Sin | Kazuya Kamihoriuchi | Syuichiro Naito, Takaya Yamaguchi, Asuka Kawazu, Ryo Aoki, Yuki Ikushima, Eiji Togashi, Hiroaki Oka | [32] | ||
| F E B R U A R Y |
4 | The Deer King | Masashi Ando, Masayuki Miyaji | Shinichi Tsutsumi, Ryoma Takeuchi, Anne Watanabe, Hisui Kimura, Yoshito Yasuhara, Toaru Sakurai | [33][34][35][36][37] |
| Mr. Suzuki | Sou Sasaki | Asako Ito, Norihiko Tsukuda, Hisako Okata, Nao Yasunaga, Kai Shishido, Iwawo | [38] | ||
| You've Got a Friend | Ryūichi Hiroki | Jun Murakami, Nahana, Masao Yoshi, Momoka Ayukawa, Shima Ohnishi, Tomu Miyazaki | [39] | ||
| Miracle City Koza | Kazuhiro Taira | Kenta Kiritani, Yuuki Oshiro, Tsunami Ryuto, Mitsuhiro Koike, Shinichi Tsuha, Hidetoshi Kanzaki | [40] | ||
| What to Do with the Dead Kaiju? | Satoshi Miki | Ryosuke Yamada, Tao Tsuchiya, Gaku Hamada, Hidekazu Mashima, Eri Fuse, Seiji Rokkaku, Toshihiro Yashiba, Yoshiki Arizono | [41] | ||
| 11 | Just Remembering | Daigo Matsui | Sosuke Ikematsu, Sairi Ito, Reika Ozeki, Hiromasa Yashiki, Toshiki Hirose, Ryo Narita | [42] | |
| Usogui: Lie Eater | Hideo Nakata | Ryusei Yokohama, Hayato Sano, Mai Shiraishi, Shohei Miura, Kaito Sakurai, Kanata Hongō | [43] | ||
| Homestay | Natsuki Seta | Kento Nagao, Anna Yamada, Rikako Yagi, Ayumu Mochizuki, Hidekazu Mashima, Kiyohiko Shibukawa | [44][45] | ||
| Kitakaze Outsider | Tetsuhiro Sai | Tetsuhiro Sai, Maho Kasaku, Wataru Ito, Wako Ueda, Izumi Sano, Natsuko Urakawa | [46] | ||
| Takatsu River | Yoshinari Nishikori | Masahiro Komoto, Naho Toda, Ito Ohno, Hiromasa Taguchi, Chloe Takahashi, Tomoko Naraoka | [47] | ||
| 18 | Fruits Basket: Prelude | Yoshihide Ibata | Miyuki Sawashiro, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Manaka Iwami, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Yuma Uchida | [48] | |
| The Blue Skies at Your Feet | Yuki Saito | Riko Fukumoto, Genta Matsuda, Mizuki Itagaki, Mayuu Yokota, Riko, Toshihiro Yashiba | [49] | ||
| Ox-Head Village | Takashi Shimizu | Kōki, Riku Hagiwara, Fumiya Takahashi, Haruka Imo, Rinka Otani, Riko | [50] | ||
| Goodbye, Don Glees! | Atsuko Ishizuka | Natsuki Hanae, Yuki Kaji, Ayumu Murase, Kana Hanazawa, Rino Sashihara, Atsushi Tamura | [51] | ||
| Residents of Evil | Katusmi Sasaki | Kokoro Ebino, Kento Ono | [52] | ||
| 25 | Love Nonetheless | Hideo Jojo | Kōji Seto, Honami Satō, Yuumi Kawai, Ayumu Nakajima, Yuka Kouri | [53] | |
| Deemo: Memorial Keys | Shūhei Matsushita, Junichi Fujisaku | Ayana Taketatsu, Naomi Watanabe, Gaku Hamada, Issey Ogata, Kouhei Matsushita, Kōichi Yamadera | [54] | ||
| Ribbon | Non | Non, Rio Yamashita, Daichi Watanabe, Karin Ono, Misayo Haruki, Daikichi Sugawara | [55] | ||
| Ring Wandering | Masakazu Kaneko | Shō Kasamatsu, Junko Abe, Reiko Kataoka, Toru Shinagawa, Ken Yasuda, Yōji Tanaka | [56] | ||
| Haiiro no Kabe | Kozo Ando | So Okuno, Ayaka Konno, Takanori Jinnai | [57] | ||
| M A R C H |
4 | Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 | Susumu Yamaguchi | Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Ohara, Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Tomokazu Seki, Romi Park | [58][37] |
| Ensemble Stars!! Road to Show!! | Asami Nakatani, Masakazu Hishida | Showtaro Morikubo, Yuki Kaji, Kōhei Amasaki, Chiharu Shigematsu, Junichi Suwabe, Soma Saito | [59] | ||
| The Last 10 Years | Michihito Fujii | Nana Komatsu, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Yuki Yamada, Nao, Satoru Iguchi, Haru Kuroki, Hideko Hara, Yutaka Matsushige | [60] | ||
| Ashiya's School Lunch | Mitsuhito Shiraha | Ruka Matsuda, Takuya Ishida, Takashi Nishina, Mao Miyaji, Izumi Fujimoto, Rintaro Kurita | [61] | ||
| Blue Thermal | Masaki Tachibana | Mayu Hotta, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Junya Enoki, Mikako Komatsu, Daisuke Ono, Haruka Shiraishi | [62] | ||
| The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Gekitotsu | Shunsuke Tada | Mamoru Miyano, Kenichi Suzumura, Yuki Kaji, Daisuke Ono, Yuichi Nakamura, Tokuyoshi Kawashima | [63] | ||
| 11 | Wedding High | Akiko Ōku | Ryōko Shinohara, Tomoya Nakamura, Nagisa Sekimizu, Takanori Iwata, Osamu Mukai, Katsumi Takahashi | [64] | |
| Intimate Stranger | Mayu Nakamura | Asuka Kurosawa, Fuju Kamio, Yu Uemura, Shogen, Shirō Sano, Mitsuko Oka | [65] | ||
| Moonlight Diner | Kōji Kamui | Rei Sugai, Miko Nakagawa, Mitsunari Sakamoto, Chiaki Hiratsuka, Hiroyuki Hagita, Takafumi Kagaya | [66] | ||
| 12 | Kamen Rider OOO 10th: Core Medal of Resurrection | Ryuta Tasaki | Shu Watanabe, Shingo Izumi, Riho Takada, Hiroaki Iwanaga, Asaya Kimijima, Mayuko Arisue, Marie Kai | [67] | |
| 18 | Straying | Rikiya Imaizumi | Nairu Yamamoto, Katsuya Maiguma, Miyū Teshima, Kai Inowaki | [68] | |
| Kappei | Takashi Hirano | Hideaki Itō, Moka Kamishiraishi, Daigo Nishihata, Yusuke Onuki, Arata Furuta, Koji Yamamoto | [69][37] | ||
| Ultraman Trigger: Episode Z | Masayoshi Takesue | Raiga Terasaka, Runa Toyoda, Shunya Kaneko, Tadashi Mizuno, Meiku Harukawa, Katsuya Takagi, Kei Hosogai, Shin Takuma, Kohshu Hirano, Yuichi Nakamura, Akinori Ando | [70] | ||
| 25 | Two Outs Bases Loaded | Hirokazu Fujisawa | Aran Abe, Mizuki Itagaki, Haruka Kudō, Shoki Moroboshi, Ryūhei Watabe, Tamiyasu Cho | [71] | |
| Love Like the Falling Petals | Yoshihiro Fukagawa | Kento Nakajima, Honoka Matsumoto, Kento Nagayama,Yuki Sakurai, Shuntaro Yanagi, Yumi Wakatsuki | [72] | ||
| Mr. Osomatsu | Tsutomu Hanabusa | Koji Mukai, Hikaru Iwamoto, Ren Meguro, Tatsuya Fukazawa, Raul, Daisuke Sakuma | [73][37] | ||