| Rank | Title | Gross | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Godzilla vs. Destoroyah | ||
| 2 | Shall We Dance? | ||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | Gakkō no Kaidan 2 | ||
| 5 | Supermarket Woman |
A list of films released in Japan in 1996 (see 1996 in film).
| Title | Director | width=15% | Cast ! | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toshiki Satō | Hotaru Hazuki | Pink | Best Film, Best Actress, Best Screenplay: Pink Grand Prix | ||
| Atashi wa juice | Toshiki Satō | Naomi Akimoto, Natsuki Ozawa, Shingo Tsurumi | |||
| Boys Be Ambitious | |||||
| Ohranger vs. Kakuranger | Shōhei Tōjō | Masaru Shishido, Kunio Masaoka, Masashi Gōda | Direct-to-video crossover | ||
| Animated feature | |||||
| Don't Look Up | Hideo Nakata | Yūrei Yanagi, Yasuyo Shirashima, Kei Ishibashi | Horror | [1] | |
| Animated feature | |||||
| Dorami & the Doraemons - Seven Strange Tales of the Robot School | Animated short | ||||
| Shigeyasu Yamauchi | Part of the Dragon Ball series; last theatrical film in the series until in 2013 | ||||
| Emperor Tomato Ketchup | Shūji Terayama | Goro Abashiri, Tarō Apollo, Shiro Demaemochi | |||
| Gakko II | Toshiyuki Nishida, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masatoshi Nagase | ||||
| Gakkō no Kaidan 2 | Hironobu Nomura, Naomi Nishida, Kyōko Kishida | Horror | Part of the Gakkō no Kaidan series | ||
| Shinobu Nakayama, Ai Maeda, Toshiyuki Nagashima | |||||
| Heisei Harenchi Gakuen | Hiroyuki Muramatsu | Based on a manga | |||
| Haru | Comedy-drama, romance | [2] | |||
| Kids Return | Masanobu Andō, Ken Kaneko, Leo Morimoto | ||||
| Animated feature | |||||
| Mari's Prey | Keiichirō Yoshida | Makiko Kuno, Takeshi Yamato, Kenichi Endō | Erotic thriller | ||
| Naked Blood | Hisayasu Satō | ||||
| Neighborhood Story | Atsuji Shimizu | Based on a manga | |||
| Organ | Kei Fujiwara | Kei Fujiwara, Kimihiko Hasegawa, Yosiaki Maekawa | Horror | ||
| Picnic | Shunji Iwai | Chara, Tadanobu Asano, Koichi Hashizume | |||
| Rebirth of Mothra | Megumi Kobayashi, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Aki Hano | ||||
| Revive! Ultraman | Tokusatsu | Part of the Ultra Series | |||
| Shall We Dance? | Kōji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka | Comedy-drama | [3] | ||
| Runa Hayama, Kazuhiro Sano | |||||
| Supermarket Woman | Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Ryunosuke Kaneda | Comedy | |||
| Swallowtail Butterfly | Hiroshi Mikami, Chara, Ayumi Ito | Entered into the 20th Moscow International Film Festival | |||
| Village of Dreams | Yōichi Higashi | Mieko Harada, Keigo Matsuyama, Shogo Matsuyama | Entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| The Wart | Yōta Kawase, Maako Mizuno, Yumika Hayashi | Pink | |||
| The Way to Fight | Takeshi Caesar, Ryoko Imamura, Kazuki Kitamura | Direct-to-video | |||
| Women at a Secret Meeting: From Wives to Coeds | Yūki Morishita, Shun'ichi Yajima, Kyōsuke Sasaki | ||||
| Toshiharu Ikeda | Kei Marimura, Makiko Watanabe, Ren Ōsugi | Erotic thriller | |||