List of Japanese films of 2003

Highest-grossing films

Rank	Title	Gross
1	Bayside Shakedown 2	¥17.35 billion
2	Pokémon: Jirachi—Wish Maker	¥4.50 billion
3	Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital	¥3.20 billion
4	Yomigaeri	¥3.07 billion
5	Zatōichi	¥2.85 billion

List of films

A list of films released in Japan in 2003 (see 2003 in film).

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
2LDK
Abaranger Deluxe
Adulterous Wife's Dirty Afternoon	Yutaka Ikejima	Motoko Sasaki	Pink	Silver Prize & Best Actress, Pink Grand Prix
Ambiguous	Toshiya Ueno	Hidehisa Ebata Noriko Murayama	Pink	Best Film, Pink Grand Prix
The Animatrix	Koji Morimoto	Hedy Burress, James Arnold Taylor	Action
The Blue Light	Yukio Ninagawa	Kazunari Ninomiya, Aya Matsuura, Anne Suzuki, Kumiko Akiyoshi	Drama, crime, romance
Azumi	Ryuhei Kitamura	Aya Ueto	Action, Samurai film
Battle Royale 2: Requiem
Battlefield Baseball	Yūdai Yamaguchi		Comedy
Bright Future	Kiyoshi Kurosawa			Entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival
Café Lumière	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano	Drama
Chirusoku no natsu	Kiyoshi Sasabe
Crayon Shin-chan: Glorious Grilled Meat Road
Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital
Doppelganger	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Kōji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku	Thriller
Dragon Head	Jōji Iida	Satoshi Tsumabuki, Sayaka Kanda	Disaster film
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai	Mitsuru Meike	Emi Kuroda	Pink
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
Gozu	Takashi Miike		Horror
Inuyasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler
Ju-on: The Grudge	Takashi Shimizu	Megumi Okina	Horror	Re-make of Ju-on 1
Ju-on: The Grudge 2	Takashi Shimizu	Noriko Sakai	Horror	Re-make of Ju-on 2
Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost
A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn	Daisuke Gotō	Horyu Nakamura, Ryoko Asagi	Pink
One Piece the Movie: Dead End Adventure		Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Hirata, Ikue Ōtani, Yuriko Yamaguchi
Onmyoji II
Owl	Kaneto Shindo			Entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival
Poketto Monsutā Adobansu Jenerēshon The Wishing Star of Seven Nights Jirāchi
Shara	Naomi Kawase			Entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival
Tokyo Godfathers	Satoshi Kon		Comedy drama anime
Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle		Kaori Sakagami, Hidekazu Ichinose
Watashi no Grandpa
When the Last Sword Is Drawn	Yōjirō Takita	Kiichi Nakai		Japan Academy Prize for Best Film
Winning Pass	Kenichi Matsuyama		Basketball drama
Zatōichi	Takeshi Kitano	Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano	Samurai Geisha Swordsman drama

See also

• 2003 in Japan
• 2003 in Japanese television

External links

• Japanese films of 2003 at the Internet Movie Database