List of Japanese films of 1982 explained

A list of films released in Japan in 1982 (see 1982 in film).

Box-office ranking

Rank	Title	Director	Cast
1	Sailor Suit and Machine Gun	Shinji Sōmai	Hiroko Yakushimaru
2	High Teen Boogie	Toshio Masuda	Masahiko Kondō
3	The Great Japanese Empire	Toshio Masuda (director)	Tetsurō Tamba
4	Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space	Yoshiyuki Tomino	Tōru Furuya
5		Hideo Nishimaki	Nobuyo Ōyama

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
	1982
A Ilha dos Amores	Paulo Rocha			Co-produced with Portugal and entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival
Asuka e soshite mada minu koe		Keiko Takeshita, Tatsuro Nadaka, Shinya Owada
Bright Lake
				Animated feature
Exchange Students		Satomi Kobayashi
Fall Guy				Japan Academy Prize for Best Film
Farewell to the Land	Mitsuo Yanagimachi			Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival
The Flight of Dragons	Jules Bass, Katsuhisa Yamada		Animation
The Gate of Youth (Part II)			Drama
	, Duan Ji-Shun	Rentarō Mikuni, Sun Dao-Lin, Misako Konno		Japanese-Chinese co-production
Goggle V Movie
Hai tiin bugi
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san	Yoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi		29th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
Kaibutsu-kun–Demon no ken				Animated feature
The Last Unicorn	Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass		Animated fantasy
Long Run–Rongu ran
Karate Cop
Kidnap Blues		Kazuyoshi Tamori, Yosuke Yamashita, Yumiko Fujita
		Ken Takakura, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tomokazu Miura
Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounter in Space			Anime for Children
Ninja Hattori-kun–Ninnin ninpo eniki no maki				Animated feature
Nomugi Pass II		Keiko Takeshita, Tatsuro Nadaka, Shinya Owada

Tekuno porisu 21 C
Tora-san, the Expert	Yoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi		30th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series

The Wizard of Oz
Yaju-deka	Eiichi Kudo			Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival

Book: Galbraith IV, Stuart . The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography . 2008 . . 978-1461673743.