List of Japanese films of 2006

A list of films released in Japan in 2006 (see 2006 in film).

Highest-grossing films

Rank	Title	Director	Cast	Gross
1	Tales from Earthsea	Gorō Miyazaki	Junichi Okada	¥7.65 billion
2	Limit of Love: Umizaru	Eiichirō Hasumi	Hideaki Itō	¥7.1 billion
3	The Uchōten Hotel	Kōki Mitani	Kōji Yakusho	¥6.08 billion
4	Nihon Chinbotsu	Shinji Higuchi	Tsuyoshi Kusanagi	¥5.34 billion
5	Death Note 2: The Last Name	Shusuke Kaneko	Tatsuya Fujiwara	¥5.2 billion

List of films

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
Atagoal: Cat's Magical Forest	Mizuho Nishikubo	Kōichi Yamadera Asahi Uchida	Anime
Big Tit Sisters: Blow Through the Valley aka Three Rules to be the Witch	Yumi Yoshiyuki	Sakurako Kaoru	Pink love comedy	7th Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix
BLEACH the Movie: Memories of Nobody	Noriyuki Abe		Supernatural/action/anime	Based on a manga/anime series created by Tite Kubo
Boys Love	Kotaro Terauchi	Yoshikazu Kotani Takumi Saito
Boukenger the Movie: The Greatest Precious
Crayon Shin-chan: Dance! Amigo!
Death Note	Shūsuke Kaneko	Tatsuya Fujiwara Kenichi Matsuyama Nakamura Shidō Erika Toda	Detective fiction, Drama
Death Note 2: The Last Name	Shūsuke Kaneko	Tatsuya Fujiwara Kenichi Matsuyama Nakamura Shidō Erika Toda	Detective fiction, Drama
Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem
Fascinating Young Hostess: Sexy Thighs	Tetsuya Takehora	Akiho Yoshizawa	Pink	Best Film, Screenplay, Cinematography and third Best Actress at the Pink Grand Prix
Gamera the Brave			Kaiju	First (and currently only) Millennium era Gamera film.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time	Mamoru Hosoda		Anime
Hula Girls	Sang-il Lee	Yasuko Matsuyuki Etsushi Toyokawa Yū Aoi Shizuyo Yamazaki	Comedy, Drama	Winner of five major awards at the 2007 Japan Academy Awards, including best film, best director, best screenplay, best supporting actress (for Yū Aoi), and most popular film.
The Inugamis	Kon Ichikawa			Entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival
Japan Sinks	Shinji Higuchi	Tsuyoshi Kusanagi Kou Shibasaki Etsushi Toyokawa Mao Daichi	Disaster film
Letters from Iwo Jima
Kamen Rider Kabuto: GOD SPEED LOVE
Kamome Shokudo
Nana 2	Kentarō Ōtani	Yui Ichikawa Mika Nakashima
Naruto the Movie 3: The Animal Riot of Crescent Moon Island
Oira Sukeban	Noboru Iguchi			Based on a manga
One Piece the Movie: The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle		Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Hirata, Ikue Ōtani, Yuriko Yamaguchi
Paprika	Satoshi Kon		Science fiction anime
Poketto Monsutā Adobansu Jenerēshon Pokémon Renjā and the Prince of the Sea, Manafi
The Prince of Tennis	Yuichi Abe	Kanata Hongo, Yuu Shirota, Hirofumi Araki, Hiroki Suzuki	School, Sports
Rainbow Song	Naoto Kumazawa	Hayato Ichihara, Juri Ueno, Ami Suzuki, Yū Aoi, Kuranosuke Sasaki
Retribution	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Kōji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara	Horror film
Rokkasho Rhapsody	Hitomi Kamanaka		Documentary
Rough	Kentarō Ōtani		Romantic comedy, School, Sports
Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru	Takehiko Shinjo	Aoi Miyazaki Hiroshi Tamaki Meisa Kuroki	Romance, Drama	International title: "Heavenly Forest"
Taiyou no uta	Norihiro Koizumi	YUI Takashi Tsukamoto	Drama
Oh! Oku	Toru Hayashi	Yukie Nakama Hidetoshi Nishijima Reiko Takashima	History
Tales from Earthsea	Gorō Miyazaki		Fantasy anime
Tekkon Kinkreet	Michael Arias	Kazunari Ninomiya, Yū Aoi	Science fiction anime
The Angel's Egg	Shin Togashi	Manami Konishi		Based on a novel
Tokyo Friends: The Movie
Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers	Kazuya Konaka	Shunji Igarashi, Daisuke Watanabe, Minoru Tanaka
Uncle's Paradise	Shinji Imaoka	Shirō Shimomoto Minami Aoyama	Pink comedy	Best Actor and Actress, Pink Grand Prix
Water Flower	Yusuke Kinoshita			Screened at Berlin International Film Festival 2006
We Can't Go Home Again	Toshi Fujiwara

External links

• Japanese films of 2006 at the Internet Movie Database
• 2006 in Japan
• 2006 in Japanese television
• List of 2006 box office number-one films in Japan