List of Japanese films of 1999 explained

Highest-grossing films

Rank	Title	Gross
1
2	Ring 2
3	Poppoya
4
5

List of films

A list of films released in Japan in 1999 (see 1999 in film).

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
Adolescence of Utena				^[1]
Adrenaline Drive	Shinobu Yaguchi	Masanobu Andō, Hikari Ishida, Yutaka Matsushige	Comedy	^[2]
After the Rain	Takashi Koizumi		Drama	Japanese-French co-production^[3] ^[4]
Audition	Takashi Miike	Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Miyuki Matsuda	Horror	^[5]
Away With Words	Christopher Doyle	Tadanobu Asano, Kevin Sherlock, Mavis Xu	Drama	^[6]
Barren Illusion	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Shinji Takeda, Miako Tadano, Yutaka Yasui	Science fiction	^[7]
				Animated feature
Charisma		Köji Yakusho, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Ren Osugi	Drama	^[8] ^[9]
Dead or Alive	Takashi Miike	Riki Takeuchi	Action	^[10]
Don't Look Back	Akihiko Shiota		Drama	^[11]
Eiga kureyon Shin-chan–Bakuhatsu! Onsen Wakwaku daikessen				Animated feature
EM Embalming	Shinji Aoyama	Reiko Takashima, Yukata Matsushige, Toshio Shiba	Horror	^[12]	accessdate=November 4, 2013
The Haunted School 4	Hideyuki Hirayama
	Shusuke Kaneko		Science fiction	^[13] ^[14]
Gemini	Shinya Tsukamoto		Horror	^[15] ^[16]
Gingaman vs. Megaranger
Godzilla 2000: Millennium		Takehiro Murata, Shiro Sano, Hiroshi Abe	Science fiction	^[17] ^[18]
Himitsu		Ryōko Hirosue, Kaoru Kobayashi, Kayoko Kishimoto	Fantasy, romance	^[19]
Japanese Hell	Teruo Ishii	Michiko Maeda, Nozomi Saito	Horror	^[20] ^[21]
Jin Roh	Mamoru Oshii			^[22]
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film	Masahiro Kobayashi
Keiho	Yoshimitsu Morita	Kyōka Suzuki, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Ittoku Kishibe	Mystery	^[23]
Kikujiro		Takeshi Kitano, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto	Comedy-drama	^[24]
Kureshin Paradaisu! Meido • In • Saitama				Animated feature
Ley Lines	Takashi Miike	Kazuki Kitamura, Sho Aihara, Naoto Takenaka	Action, crime	^[25] ^[26]
M/Other	Nobuhiro Suwa	Tomokazu Miura, Makiko Watanabe, Ryudai Tatkahashi	Drama	^[27]
Messengers	Yasuo Baba		Comedy
Moonlight Whispers	Akihiko Shiota	Kenji Mizuhashi, Tsugumi, Kouta Kusano	Drama, romance	^[28]
My Neighbors the Yamadas	Isao Takahata		Comedy	^[29]
Nobita Drifts in the Universe	Tsutomu Shibayama			Animated feature^[30]
Nobita no kekkon Zenya	Ayumu Watanabe			Animated short
Nodo-Jiman	Kazuyuki Izutus	Shigeru Muroi, Kohei Otomo, Isao Bido	Comedy
Office Lady Love Juice	Yūji Tajiri	Azumi Kubota, Mikio Satō	Pink
Osaka Story				^[31]
Owls' Castle	Masahiro Shinoda	Shohei Hino, Shima Iwashita, Takaya Kamikawa
The Perfect Education	Ben Wada	Naoto Takenaka, Hijiri Kojima, Eriko Watanabe	Drama	^[32]
				^[33]
Pola X		Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve	Drama	French-German-Japanese-Swiss co-production^[34] ^[35] ^[36]
Poppoya	Yasuo Furuhata	Ken Takakura, Nenji Kobayashi, Shinobu Otake	Drama	^[37]
Rainbow Over the Cape	Masahiko Okumura	Rentarō Mikuni, Mieko Harada, Isao Natsuyagi
Ring 2			Horror	^[38]
Saimin	Masayuki Ochiai	Miho Kann, Ken Utsui, Yukio Watanabe	Horror	^[39]
Shabondama Elegy	Ian Kerkof	Thom Hoffman, Mai Hoshino, Kiyomi Ito	Crime, romance	Japanese-Dutch co-production^[40] ^[41]
Shady Grove	Shinji Aoyama	Arata, Wakaba Nakano	Romantic drama	^[42]
Shikoku		Chiaki Kuriyama, Yui Natsukawa, Michitaka Tsutsui	Thriller	^[43]
Silver	Takashi Miike	Atsuko Sakuraba, Kenji Haga, Keiji Matsuda
Taboo	Nagisa Oshima	Takeshi Kitano, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano	Drama	^[44]
			Horror	^[45]
	Kazuya Konaka	Takeshi Yoshioka
White-Collar Worker Kintaro	Takashi Miike	Katsunori Takahashi, Michiko Hada, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Wild Zero		Guitar Wolf, Makoto Inamiya, Masashi Endo		^[46] ^[47] ^[48]
Will to Live	Kaneto Shindo	Rentarō Mikuni, Shinobu Otake		^[49]
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Za • Doraemonzu–Okashina Okashina Okashinana	Yoshitomo Yonetani			Animated short

See also

• 1999 in Japan
• 1999 in Japanese television

Notes

References

• Book: Mes, Tom . Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike . FAB Press . 2006 . 978-1903254417 .
• Book: Galbraith IV, Stuart . The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography . October 29, 2013 . 2008 . . 978-1461673743.
• Book: Desjardins, Chris . Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film . October 30, 2013 . 2008 . . 978-1845110901.
• Book: Berra, John . Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 . October 30, 2013 . 2012 . . 978-1841505510.
• Book: Harper, Jim . Flowers from Hell . October 30, 2013 . 2012 . . 978-0953656479.

External links

• Japanese films of 1999 at the Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. Davis . Julie . Flanagan . Bill . Chiho Saito and Kunihiko Ikuhara . . January 2001 . 4 . 1 . 6–11.
2. Web site: Adrenaline Drive. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. November 4, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
3. Web site: Ame Agaru. https://web.archive.org/web/20070108200652/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/607113. dead. January 8, 2007. BFI Film & Television Database. British Film Institute. October 29, 2013.
4. Web site: Ame Agaru. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Deming, Mark. October 30, 2013.
5. Web site: Audition. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Crow, Jonathan. October 30, 2013.
6. Web site: Away With Words. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Deming, Mark. November 3, 2013.
7. Web site: Barren Illusion (1999). Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. November 3, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
8. Web site: Charisma. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Crow, Jonathan. October 30, 2013.
9. Web site: Charisma. Cannes Film Festival. February 3, 2016.
10. The Daily Yomiuri. 25 November 1999. 9. Laughing at the End of the World. Gerow, Aaron.
11. Web site: Dokomademo Ikou (1999) - Akihiko Shiota | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. October 30, 2013. Dönmez-Colin, Gönül.
12. Web site: Embalming. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Crow, Jonathan.
13. Web site: Gamera 3 Revenge of Isis. BFI Film & Television Database. British Film Institute. October 29, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20090526024710/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/628569. dead. May 26, 2009.
14. Galbraith, 2008. p.405
15. Galbraith, 2008. p.408
16. Web site: Gemini. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Crow, Jonathan. October 30, 2013.
17. Galbraith, 2008. p.409
18. Web site: Godzilla 2000. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Deming, Mark. October 30, 2013.
19. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=161226. ja:秘密 (1999). 6 July 2014. allcinema. Stingray. ja.
20. Web site: Japanese Hell. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Buchanan, Jason. October 30, 2013.
21. Harper, 2008. p. 24
22. Berra, 2012. p.117-118
23. Web site: Keiho Dai Sanjyukyu Jyo. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. October 30, 2013. Dönmez-Colin, Gönül.
24. Web site: Kikujiro. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. October 30, 2013. Dönmez-Colin, Gönül.
25. Web site: NIPPON KURO SHAKAI. https://web.archive.org/web/20090526024506/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/710188. dead. May 26, 2009. BFI Film & Television Database. British Film Institute. November 4, 2013.
26. Web site: Ley Lines. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. November 4, 2013. Buchanan, Jason.
27. Web site: M/Other. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. October 30, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
28. Web site: Moonlight Whispers. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. October 30, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
29. Web site: My Neighbors the Yamadas. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. November 4, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
30. Galbraith, 2008. p.406
31. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=159652. ja:大阪物語 (1999). 6 July 2014. allcinema. Stingray. ja.
32. Web site: Kanzen Naru Shi-iku. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. November 4, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
33. Galbraith, 2008. p.407
34. Web site: Pola X. Filmportal.de. November 4, 2013.
35. Web site: Pola X. https://web.archive.org/web/20090114230807/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/562641. dead. January 14, 2009. BFI Film & Television Database. British Film Institute. November 4, 2013.
36. Web site: Pola X. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. November 4, 2013. Dönmez-Colin, Gönül.
37. Web site: Poppoya Tetsudo-En. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. October 30, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
38. Web site: Ringu 2. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. October 30, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
39. Web site: The Hypnotist. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. November 3, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
40. Web site: Shabondama Elegy. https://web.archive.org/web/20090528062532/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/610500. dead. May 28, 2009. BFI Film & Television Database. British Film Institute. November 4, 2013.
41. Web site: Shabondama Elegy. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. November 4, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
42. Web site: Shady Grove. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. November 4, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
43. Web site: Shikoku. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. October 30, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
44. Web site: Taboo. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. October 30, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.
45. Web site: Tomie. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. October 30, 2013. Tobey, Matthew.
46. Harper, 2008. p. 43
47. Web site: Wild Zero. Midnight Eye. October 30, 2013. Mes, Tom.
48. Web site: Biography. Guitar Wolf Official Website. November 2, 2013. ja.
49. Web site: Ikitai. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. October 30, 2013. Crow, Jonathan.