List of Japanese films of 2010 explained

Highest-grossing films

Rank	Title	Gross^[1]
1	Arrietty
2
3	Bayside Shakedown 3
4
5

List of films

A list of films produced in Japan in 2010 (see 2010 in film):

Opening	Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes	Ref
	Accidental Kidnapper	Hideo Sakaki	Katsunori Takahashi, Show Aikawa, Roi Hayashi	Crime comedy		^[2]
	After the Flowers	Kenji Nakanish	Keiko Kitagawa, Masahiro Komoto, Shuntaro Miyao	Costume drama		^[3]
	Alien vs Ninja		Masanori Mimoto, Shuji Kashiwabara, Donpei Tsuchihira	Martial Arts Science Fiction Comedy		^[4]
	Arrietty	Hiromasa Yonebayashi		Anime		^[5]
	Beck		Hiro Mizushima, Takeru Satoh, Kenta Kiritani			^[6]
	Birthright	Naoki Hashimoto	Sayoko Oho, Miyu Yagyu, Ryoko Takizawa	Horror		^[7]
	Black Rat					^[8]
						^[9]
	Book Girl				Based on a light novel	^[10]
	Box!	Toshio Lee	Hayato Ichihara, Kengo Kora, Mitsuki Tanimura	Sports drama		^[11]
	A Boy and His Samurai	Yoshihiro Nakamura	Ryo Nishikido, Rie Tomosaka, Fuku Suzuki, Hiroki Konno		Based on a manga	^[12]
	Caterpillar					^[13]
	Cold Fish	Sion Sono				^[14]
	Colorful			Anime		^[15]
	Confessions		Takako Matsu			^[16]
	Dancing Chaplin	Masayuki Suo	Luigo Bonino, Tamiyo Kusakari, Roland Petit			^[17]
						^[18]
	The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya		Aya Hirano, Tomokazu Sugita, Minori Chihara, Yūko Gotō Daisuke Ono		Based on a light novel
						^[19]
	Eden of the East: Paradise Lost					^[20]
	Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works		Noriaki Sugiyama, Ayako Kawasumi, Kana Ueda			^[21]
		Keita Amemiya	Ryosei Konishi, Mary Matsuyama,			^[22]
	GeGeGe no Nyōbō				Based on a book	^[23]
	Gothic & Lolita Psycho	Go Ohara	Rina Akiyama			^[24]
	Hanamizuki					^[25]
	Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora				Based on a light novel	^[26]
	Haru's Journey	Masahiro Kobayashi	Tatsuya Nakadai, Eri Tokunaga, Hideji Otaki			^[27]
	Heaven's Story		Moeki Tsuruoka, Tomoharu Hasegawa, Shugo Oshinari			^[28]
	Helldriver		Yumiko Hara, Eihi Shiina, Yurei Yanagi	Splatter		^[29]
	Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!		Shinobu Otake, Aoi Miyazaki, Kenta Kiritani			^[30]
	Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island	Kim Tae-kyun	Koji Yamamoto, Miori Takimoto	Horror		^[31]
	Hospitalité	Koji Fukada	Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino, Kanji Furutachi	Black comedy		^[32]
		Yosuke Okuda	Itabashi Shunya, Waki Katakura, Kenraku Tamura	Crime comedy-drama		^[33]
	Hutch the Honeybee					^[34]
	Inazuma Eleven: Saikyō Gundan Ōgre Shūrai					^[35]
	Into the White Night	Yoshihiro Fukagawa	Maki Horikita, Kengo Kora, Eiichiro Funakoshi			^[36]
	Kimi ni Todoke		Mikako Tabe, Haruma Miura			^[37]
	Kakera: A Piece of Our Life					^[38]
	Ongakubito	Hidetaka Itō	Kazuma Sano, Mirei Kiritani			^[39]
		Osamu Kaneda, Kenzō Maihara, Takayuki Shibasaki	Yuichi Nakamura, Dori Sakurada, Kimito Totani			^[40]
		Koichi Sakamoto	Renn Kiriyama, Masaki Suda, Hikaru Yamamoto, Minehiro Kinomoto, Mitsuru Matsuoka, Genki Sudo, Aya Sugimoto			^[41]
			Renn Kiriyama, Masaki Suda, Hikaru Yamamoto, Minehiro Kinomoto, Kikkawa Koji, Shu Watanabe			^[42]
	Kinako				Based on a true story	^[43]
	King of Thorn	Kazuyoshi Katayama				^[44]
	Kyōfu	Hiroshi Takahashi				^[45]
	The Lady Shogun and Her Men	Fuminori Kaneko	Kazunari Ninomiya, Ko Shibasaki, Maki Horikita	Costume fantasy drama		^[46]
	Light Novel no Tanoshii Kakikata		Maasa Sudo, Hisanori Satō, Ayana Taketatsu		Based on a light novel	^[47]
	The Lightning Tree	Ryuichi Hiroki	Masaki Okada, Yū Aoi, Keisuke Koide	Costume romance		^[48]
	Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano				Based on a novel	^[49]
	Maria-sama ga Miteru				Based on a light novel	^[50]
						^[51]
	Mutant Girls Squad	Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Tak Sakaguchi		Splatter		^[52]
						^[53]
	Norwegian Wood		Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara	Drama		^[54]
	Ōoku	Fuminori Kaneko
	Otōto		Sayuri Yoshinaga Tsurube Shofukutei Yū Aoi
	Outrage			Gangster black comedy		^[55]
		Toshikazu Nagae	Aoi Nakamura, Noriko Aoyama, Ayako Yoshitani			^[56]
			Rica Matsumoto, Megumi Toyoguchi, Yūji Ueda, Ikue Ōtani
	Planzet			Anime Science fiction		^[57] ^[58]
	Railways
	Redline	Takeshi Koike
		Shōjirō Nakazawa
	Sankaku
	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World				Based on the comic books. A UK-USA-Japan co-production.
	Shodo Girls!!			Teen	Based on a true story	^[59]
	Sketches of Kaitan City				Based on a collected short story series
	Solanin	Takahiro Miki			Based on a manga
	Space Battleship Yamato
		Kenji Yokoi			Based on Takumi-kun: Bibō no Detail	^[60]
			Eric Bossick, Akiko Monō, Shinya Tsukamoto			^[61]
	Thirteen Assassins			Costume martial arts	Japan-UK co-production	^[62]
	Welcome to the Space Show				Premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival prior to nationwide release
				Anime
	Yuriko's Aroma		Noriko Eguchi, Shōta Sometani, Saori Hara	Erotic comedy drama		^[63]

References

• 2010 in Japan
• 2010 in Japanese television
• List of 2010 box office number-one films in Japan

Notes and References

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3. Web site: After the Flowers (花のあと). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. November 17, 2010. July 11, 2011.
4. Web site: Alien vs Ninja (AVN). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. August 13, 2010. July 11, 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175816/http://www.filmbiz.asia/reviews/alien-vs-ninja. March 3, 2016.
5. Web site: Arrietty. Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. July 1, 2011. July 11, 2011.
6. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=335785. ja:映画 BECK. 2015-06-13. Stingray. allcinema. ja.
7. Web site: Birthright (臍帯). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. April 3, 2011. July 11, 2011.
8. Web site: アイドルを血のりで染めて撮影できる舞台挨拶. 18 May 2010. Eiga.com. ja. 13 November 2020.
9. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=337057. ja:映画 アニメ 劇場版 BLEACH ブリーチ 地獄篇. 2015-06-13. Stingray. allcinema. ja.
10. Web site: Bungaku Shoujo, Haiyoru! Nyaru-Ani Promos Streamed. 2015-06-13. Anime News Network.
11. Web site: Box! (ボックス!). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. August 20, 2010. July 11, 2011.
12. Web site: A BOY AND HIS SAMURAI . October 8, 2011. Fantastic Fest. Festival Genius.
13. Web site: Belinale. Berlin International Film Festival. July 11, 2011.
14. Web site: Cold Fish (冷たい熱帯魚). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. September 10, 2010. July 11, 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110714074611/http://www.filmbiz.asia/reviews/cold-fish. July 14, 2011.
15. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=335873. ja:映画 アニメ カラフル. 2015-06-13. Stingray. allcinema. ja.
16. Web site: Confessions (告白). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. July 19, 2010. July 11, 2011.
17. Web site: Dancing Chaplin (ダンシングチャップリン). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. December 7, 2010. July 11, 2011.
18. Web site: Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky Revealed (Updated). 2015-06-13. Anime News Network.
19. Web site: Doraemon's 30th Film to Open Next March. 2015-06-13. Anime News Network.
20. Web site: http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=37079. ja:東のエデン劇場版II Paradise Lost. 2015-06-13. Agency for Cultural Affairs. ja.
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22. Web site: Garo: Red Requiem (牙狼〈GARO〉〜RED REQUIEM〜). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. May 28, 2010. July 11, 2011.
23. Web site: GeGeGe no Nyōbō Book by GeGeGe Author's Wife Gets Film (Updated). 2015-06-13. Anime News Network.
24. Web site: Psycho Gothic Lolita - Cast, Reviews, Summary, and Awards - AllRovi. Allrovi. July 29, 2011. Buchanan, Jason. https://archive.today/20120719071758/http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/psycho-gothic-lolita-v534262. July 19, 2012. dead.
25. Web site: Hanamizuki (ハナミズキ). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. November 12, 2010. July 11, 2011.
26. Web site: http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=37119. ja:半分の月がのぼる空. 2015-06-13. Agency for Cultural Affairs. ja.
27. Web site: Haru's Journey (春との旅). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. January 25, 2011. July 11, 2011.
28. Web site: Heaven's Story (ヘヴンズ・ストーリー). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. February 4, 2011. July 11, 2011.
29. Web site: Helldriver (ヘルドライバー). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. July 12, 2011. July 12, 2011. dead. https://archive.today/20120801203748/http://www.filmbiz.asia/reviews/helldriver. August 1, 2012.
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33. Web site: Hot as Hell: The Deadbeat March (青春墓場～明日と一緒に歩くのだ～). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. January 25, 2011. July 11, 2011.
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35. Web site: October 14, 2010 . Inazuma Eleven 3D Film, Tailenders Promos Streamed (Updated) . Anime News Network . 2011-07-24.
36. Web site: Into the White Night (白夜行). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. January 27, 2011. July 11, 2011.
37. Web site: Kimi ni Todoke Manga Gets Live-Action Film Green-Lit . 2010-01-06. 2011-10-12. Anime News Network.
38. Web site: カケラ(2009). Allcinema.net. July 11, 2011.
39. Web site: Mirei Kiritani to star in "Ongakubito". 2015-06-26. Tokyograph.
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42. Web site: http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=45767. ja:仮面ライダー×仮面ライダー オーズ＆ダブル feat．スカル MOVIE大戦CORE（コア）. 2015-06-13. Agency for Cultural Affairs. ja.
43. Web site: Kaho to release photobook. 2015-06-13. 6Theory Media, LLC. tokyohive.
44. Web site: King of Thorn Manga Gets Film Adaptation in 2010 (Updated). Anime News Network. June 12, 2009. July 11, 2011.
45. Web site: http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/41033 . ja:恐怖(2009) . 2011-10-13 . Kinema Junpo Film Database . ja . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111218110807/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/41033 . 2011-12-18 .
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47. Web site: Priest, Gothicmade, Shin-chan Online Trailers Streamed. . 2010-07-26 . 2011-08-28.
48. Web site: The Lightning Tree (雷桜). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. October 9, 2010. July 11, 2011.
49. Web site: Fantasia 2011: 'Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano' is a unique cinematic experience. Smith, Justine. July 29, 2011. October 8, 2011. Sound on Sight.
50. Web site: Maria-sama ga Miteru's Live-Action Film Casted. 2015-06-13. Anime News Network.
51. Web site: http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=45759. ja:劇場版 機動戦士ガンダム00 A wakening of the Trailblazer. 2015-06-13. Agency for Cultural Affairs. ja.
52. Web site: Mutant Girls Squad (戦闘少女 血の鉄仮面伝説). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. October 20, 2010. July 11, 2011.
53. Web site: http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=45756. ja:劇場版 NARUTO ナルト 疾風伝 ザ・ロストタワー. 2015-06-13. Agency for Cultural Affairs. ja.
54. Web site: Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. September 3, 2010. July 11, 2011.
55. Web site: Outrage. Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. May 17, 2010. July 11, 2011.
56. Web site: Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night (パラノーマル・アクティビティ 第2章: TOKYO NIGHT). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. March 2, 2011. July 11, 2011.
57. Web site: Sentai Filmworks Licenses Planzet CG Anime Film. 2012-02-06. 2012-02-07. Anime News Network.
58. Web site: Planzet, Eden of the East II Films' Promos Streamed. 2010-03-12. 2012-02-07. Anime News Network.
59. Web site: Shodo Girls!! . eiga.com . ja . 17 June 2012.
60. Web site: イケメン俳優★浜尾京介 「ずっと役者をやっていきたい」. ORICON NEWS. 5 October 2016 . 25 June 2020.
61. Web site: Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. Midnight Eye. July 13, 2011. Mes, Tom.
62. Web site: Thirteen Assassins (十三人の刺客). Film Business Asia. Elley, Derek. October 21, 2010. July 11, 2011.
63. Web site: ユリ子のアロマ(2010). December 19, 2014. allcinema.net. Stingray. ja.