The following is a list of films released in Japan in 1993 (see 1993 in film).
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloom in the Moonlight | Isako Washio Tōru Kazama Fumi Dan | ||||
| A Class to Remember | Toshiyuki Nishida | Japan Academy Prize for Best Film | |||
| Based on a Naoki Prize-winning novel | |||||
| Crayon Shin-chan: Action Kamen vs Haigure Devil | Anime | First Crayon Shin-chan movie | |||
| Dairanger Movie | Tokusatsu | ||||
| Shigeyasu Yamauchi | Anime | ||||
| Yoshihiro Ueda | Anime | ||||
| Gakko | |||||
| Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II | Takao Okawara | ||||
| Kamen Rider ZO | Keita Amemiya | Tokusatsu | |||
| Madadayo | Akira Kurosawa | Akira Kurosawa's last film. | |||
| Mermaid's Scar | Morio Asaka | OVA[1] | |||
| Moving | Screened at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| Ninja Scroll | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Kōichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara | Anime | ||
| Sonatine | Takeshi Kitano | Beat Takeshi | |||
| Tora-san's Matchmaker | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | 46th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series | ||
| Yearning | Bandō Tamasaburō V | Entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| YuYu Hakusho: The Golden Seal | Noriyuki Abe | Anime | The first film in the Yu Yu Hakusho franchise. |