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2 | Thermae Romae | ||
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5 | Wolf Children |
A list of Japanese films that are released in the Japanese box office in 2012.
The film A Letter to Momo became the first anime film to be screened at the Warsaw International Film Festival.[2] The 2012 films Ai to Makoto and will be screened in the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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Magic Tree House | Based on a children fantasy series | [4] | ||||
Quartet! | [5] | |||||
Ryūjin Mabuyer The Movie Nanatsu no Mabui | Based on a television series | [6] | ||||
Tibetan Dog | [7] | |||||
Gekkō no Kamen | Inspired by the story Sokotsu Nagaya | [8] | ||||
Hasami | [9] | |||||
Himizu | Entered into the 68th Venice International Film Festival | [10] | ||||
Robo-G | [11] | |||||
.hack//The Movie | Nanami Sakuraba | Based on a video game | [12] | |||
Always Sanchōme no Yūhi '64 | Based on a manga | [13] | ||||
[14] | ||||||
Members of the group AKB48 | Sequel to a 2011 documentary | [15] | ||||
Inu no Kubiwa to Koroke to | [16] | |||||
Shiawase no Pan | [17] | |||||
Tempest 3D | [18] | |||||
The Wings of the Kirin | Based on a novel | [19] [20] | ||||
Arakawa Under the Bridge | Based on a manga | [21] | ||||
Berserk Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler | Hiroaki Iwanaga, Takahiro Sakurai, Toa Yukinari | Based on a manga | [22] | |||
Mameshiba Ichirō 3D | [23] | |||||
Nihon Retto | NA | [24] | ||||
Shinobido | Based on a theme park attraction | [25] | ||||
Tokyo Playboy Club | [26] | |||||
NA | [27] | |||||
Based on a video game | [28] [29] | |||||
Gyakuten Saiban | Based on a video game | [30] | ||||
Kitsutsuki to Ame | [31] | |||||
Based on the true story of the Hayabusa spacecraft | [32] | |||||
Life Is Dead | Based on a manga | [33] | ||||
Utahime | Based on a novel | [34] | ||||
Afro Tanaka | Based on a manga | [35] | ||||
Ikiterumono wa Inainoka | [36] | |||||
[37] | ||||||
Based on a novel | [38] [39] | |||||
Love Police | [40] | |||||
Zombie Ass | [41] | |||||
Koun no Tsubo | [42] | |||||
Doraemon: Nobita to Kiseki no Shima ~Animal Adventure~ | 17th film in the Doraemon film series | [43] | ||||
Sequel to the film | ||||||
[44] | ||||||
Henge | [45] | |||||
Okaeri Hayabusa | Based on the true story of the Hayabusa spacecraft | |||||
River | Based on real events | [46] | ||||
Bokura ga Ita (Part 1) | Based on a manga | |||||
Ghostwriter Hotel | [47] | |||||
Ouran High School Host Club | Based on a manga; similar to the 2011 television drama based on the same manga | [48] | ||||
Part of the Pretty Cure All Stars film series | [49] | |||||
Strike Witches | Based on a mixed-media project | [50] | ||||
Tanemaku Tabibito | ||||||
Salvage Mice | ||||||
Ultraman Saga | Hideki Oka | |||||
Ano Sora no Ao | [51] | |||||
Aoi Sora Shiroi Kumo | [52] | |||||
Ashita ni Kakeru Ai | Collaboration with China to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Japan-China friendship | [53] | ||||
Atsuhime Number 1 | ||||||
Kotoko | ||||||
Ramen Samurai | [54] | |||||
Red Tears | [55] | |||||
Continuation of a television drama series | ||||||
Totecheeta Chiquitita | Developed under the Fukushima Film Project | [56] | ||||
Watashi no Ojisan | Based on a novel | [57] | ||||
Based on a manga | [58] | |||||
Based on a manga | [59] | |||||
Donzumari Benki | [60] | |||||
A Letter to Momo | Karen Miyama, Yuka, Toshiyuki Nishida, | Entered into the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival | [61] | |||
Bokura ga Ita (Part 2) | Based on a manga | |||||
Osamu Kaneda | Tokusatsu | |||||
Monsters Club | Horror | Screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival | ||||
Sentimental Yasuko | Drama | Adapted from a stage play of the same name | [62] | |||
X Game 2 | Horror | sequel to the 2010 film X Game | [63] | |||
Based on a novel | [64] | |||||
Thermae Romae | Based on a manga | [65] | ||||
Chronicle of My Mother | ||||||
Uchū Kyōdai | Based on a manga | [66] | ||||
Kono Sora no Hana | Based on the Nagaoka Fireworks festival | [67] | ||||
Potechi | Based on a short story | [68] | ||||
Rent a Neko | [69] | |||||
Sadako 3D | [70] | |||||
Anime | Based on a novel | [71] | ||||
Girl | Based on a novel | [72] | ||||
Kotsutsubo | Based on a novel | [73] | ||||
Mada, Ningen | Jumpei Matsumoto | [74] | ||||
My House | Based on a novel | [75] | ||||
[76] | ||||||
Blood-C: The Last Dark | Based on a manga | [77] | ||||
Gaiji Keisatsu | Based on a novel | [78] | ||||
The Final Judgement | Based on a novel | [79] | ||||
Hotaru no Hikari | Continuation of a television series of the same name | [80] | ||||
Michi: Hakuji no Hito | Based on a true story | [81] | ||||
[82] | ||||||
Ai to Makoto | Based on a manga | [83] | ||||
Based on a light novel | [84] | |||||
Karappo | [85] | |||||
Berserk Golden Age Arc II: The Battle for Doldrey | Based on a manga | [86] | ||||
[87] | ||||||
Continuation of the television series Rinjo | [88] | |||||
Gusukobudori no Denki | Based on a novel | [89] | ||||
Kono Sora no Hana | Based on the Nagaoka Fireworks festival | |||||
Soreike! Anpanman Yomigaere Bananajima | Characters from the Anpanman series | [90] | ||||
[91] | ||||||
Part of the Umizaru film series | [92] | |||||
Chihiro Iwasaki: 27-sai no Tabidachi | [93] | |||||
Helter Skelter | Based on a manga | [94] | ||||
Kueki Ressha | Based on a novel | [95] | ||||
[96] | ||||||
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 2nd A's | [97] | |||||
Paikaji Nankai Sakusen | Based on a novel | [98] | ||||
The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki | [99] | |||||
Eight Ranger | Based on popular skit by Kanjani Eight | [100] | ||||
Girigiri no Onnatachi | [101] | |||||
Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of Naruto animation | [102] | |||||
Kazoku no Kuni | Based on the director's own experience | [103] | ||||
Another | Based on a novel | [104] | ||||
Kikoeteru, Furi wo Sita Dake | [105] | |||||
The Kirishima Thing | [106] | |||||
[107] | ||||||
Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess | Based on a manga | [108] | ||||
Afterschool Midnighters | [109] | |||||
Anata e | Based on a draft left behind by the late producer Seichi Ichiko | [110] | ||||
Ai Ore! | Sakurako Fukuyama | Based on a manga | [111] | |||
Rurouni Kenshin | [112] | |||||
Ushijima the Loan Shark | Based on a manga | [113] | ||||
I'm Flash! | [114] | |||||
[115] | ||||||
Himitsu no Akko-chan | Based on a manga | [116] | ||||
Hitori Kakurenbo | Based on an urban legend | [117] | ||||
Continuation of the Bayside Shakedown series | [118] | |||||
Bakugyaku Famiglia | Based on a manga | [119] | ||||
Yume Uru Futari | [120] | |||||
Jinsei, Irodori | [121] | |||||
Kagi Dorobou no Method | [122] | |||||
Tenchi Meisatsu | [123] | |||||
Bingo | Based on a novel | [124] | ||||
The Boy Inside | Based on a manga | [125] | ||||
Gekijō-ban Tiger & Bunny -The Beginning | Based on an anime series | [126] | ||||
Muse no Kagami | Based on a NTV television series of the same name | [127] | ||||
Asura | Based on a manga | [128] | ||||
Atarashii Kutsu wo Kawanakucha | Filmed in Paris | [129] | ||||
Kuro Neko Rushi | [130] | |||||
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Part 1) | [131] | |||||
Beyond Outrage | Sequel to the 2010 film Outrage | [132] | ||||
Tsunagu | Based on a novel | [133] | ||||
Hitotsu no Uta | [134] | |||||
Koi ni Itaru Yamai | [135] | |||||
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Part 2) | [136] | |||||
Shiritsu Bakaleya Koko | Continuation of NTV television series of the same name | [137] | ||||
Tabi no Okurimono | [138] | |||||
Land of Hope | International film collaboration | [139] [140] | ||||
Fuse Teppō Musume no Torimonochō | Masayuki Miyaji | [141] | ||||
[142] | ||||||
Based on the manga Cyborg 009 | [143] | |||||
[144] | ||||||
A Terminal Trust | Based on a novel | [145] | ||||
Nobo no Shiro | Based on a novel | [146] | ||||
Kita no Kanariatachi | Based on the novel Oufuku Shokan | [147] | ||||
Ogon O Daite Tobe | Based on a novel | [148] | ||||
Lesson of the Evil | Based on a novel | [149] | ||||
Neraware Gakuen | Based on a science fiction novel | [150] | ||||
Yukuefumei | [151] | |||||
Evangelion 3.0 | Third film in the Rebuild of Evangelion film series | [152] | ||||
Sono Yoru no Samurai | Based on a 2007 stage play | [153] | ||||
Karasu no Oyayubi | Based on a novel | [154] | ||||
Tsunahiichatta! | Inspired by actual events | [155] | ||||
Kyo, Koi wo Hajimemasu | Based on a manga | [156] | ||||
Good Morning Everyone! | [157] | |||||
Part of the One Piece film series | [158] | |||||
Yōkai Ningen Bem | Based on a manga; continuation of a 2011 television drama | [159] | ||||
Odayaka na Nichijo | [160] | |||||
Ōoku: Emonnosuke Tsunayoshi Hen | Based on a manga | [161] | ||||
Gothicmade | ||||||
Graffreeter Toki | Inspired by a manga | |||||
Kamihate Shōten | [162] | |||||
Little Maestro | [163] | |||||
Tenjo no kaze | Okinawa and China collaboration | [164] | ||||