List_of_Japanese_films_of_2000 Knowpia

Highest-grossing films edit

Rank	Title	Gross
1	Pokémon 3: The Movie	¥4.85 billion
2	Whiteout	¥4.20 billion
3	Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King	¥3.05 billion

List of films edit

A list of films released in Japan in 2000 (see 2000 in film).

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
Battle Royale	Kinji Fukasaku	Tatsuya Fujiwara	Thriller	^[1]
Brother	Takeshi Kitano	Beat Takeshi, Omar Epps, Claude Maki	Crime	^[2]
Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card	Morio Asaka		Animation
Case Closed: Captured in Her Eyes	Kanetsugu Kodama		Animation	^[3]
Chaos	Hideo Nakata	Miki Nakatani, Masato Hagiwara, Ken Mitsuishi	Mystery-thriller
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called The Jungle	Keiichi Hara		Animated	^[3]
Dead or Alive 2: Birds	Takashi Miike	Show Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi	Crime	^[4]
Doki Doki Wildcat Engine	Hiroshi Nishikiori		Animated	^[3]
Dora-Heita	Kon Ichikawa	Kōji Yakusho, Yuko Asano, Bunta Sugawara	Comedy	^[5]
Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections	Ayumu Watanabe		Animated	^[3]
Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King	Tsutomu Shibayama		Anime	^[3]
Escaflowne	Kazuki Akane	Maaya Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Seki	Anime
Eureka	Shinji Aoyama	Kōji Yakusho, Ken Mitsuishi, Yutaka Matsushige	Drama	^[6]
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus	Masaki Tezuka	Misato Tanaka, Shosuke Tanihara, Masato Ibu	Science fiction, action	^[7]^[8]
Gojoe	Gakuryu Ishii	Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase	Action	^[9]
GTO: The Movie
Isn't She Great	Andrew Bergman	Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, David Hyde Pierce		American-British-German-Japanese co-production^[10]
Isola	Toshiyuki Mizutani	Yoshino Kimura, Yu Kurosawa, Ken Ishiguro	Horror	^[10]
Ju-on	Takashi Shimizu	Yurei Yanagi, Chiaki Kuriyama, Takako Fuji	Horror	Direct-to-video release.^[11]^[12]
Ju-on 2	Takashi Shimizu	Yuuko Daike, Makoto Ashikawa, Kahori Fuji	Horror	Direct-to-video release^[12]
Juvenile	Takashi Yamazaki			^[5]^[13]
Keizoku-Unsolved Cases	Yukihiko Tsutsumi	Kiyoshi Nakajo, Atsuro Watanabe, Nanako Okochi		^[10]
GoGoV: Sudden Shock! A New Warrior!
GoGoV vs. Gingaman
Like a Flowing River	Yasushi Akimoto	Mitsuko Mori, Kunie Tanaka, Yoshiko Kuga		^[5]
Mononoke hime in U.S.A.	Toshikazu Sato	Hayao Miyazaki	Documentary	^[3]
Nagai Yume	Higuchinsky	Shuuji Kashiwabara, Masami Horiuchi, Eriko Hatsune	Horror	Television film^[14]
Off-Balance	Shin Togashi
One Piece: The Movie		Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi	Animation	First One Piece movie.
Pikachu & Pichu	Kunihiko Yuyama		Animated	^[5]
Pokémon 3: The Movie	Kunihiko Yuyama		Anime	^[5]
Pyrokinesis	Shusuke Kaneko	Akiko Yada, Hideaki Itō, Ryuji Harada	Horror	^[5]
Ring 0: Birthday	Tsuruta Norio	Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe, Yoshiko Tanaka	Horror	^[10]
Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay	Tarō Araki	Emi Kawana, Yumi Yoshiyuki	Pink	Best Film, Pink Grand Prix
Senrigan	Manabu Iso	Miki Mizuno, Hitomi Kuroki, Toshirou Yanagiba		^[15]
Sunday's Dream	Yōichirō Takahashi			Screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival
Titan A.E.	Don Bluth, Gary Goldman	Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo, Drew Barrymore	Animated science fiction action-adventure
Tomie: Replay	Tomijiro Mitsuishi	Mai Hosho, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Yosuke Kubozukai	Horror	^[11]
Uzumaki	Higuchinsky	Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki	Horror	^[11]
Versus	Ryuhei Kitamura	Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki	Action, horror	^[16]

Footnotes edit

^ Deming, Mark. "Battle Royale". AllMovie. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
^ Crow, Jonathan. "Brother". AllMovie. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Galbraith IV 2008, p. 414.
^ Crow, Jonathan. "Dead or Alive 2". AllMovie.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Galbraith IV 2008, p. 415.
^ Crow, Jonathan. "Eureka". AllMovie. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
^ Deming, Mark. "Godzilla vs. Megaguirus". AllMovie. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
^ Galbraith IV 2008, p. 417.
^ Deming, Mark. "Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle". AllMovie. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Galbraith IV 2008, p. 413.
^ ^a ^b ^c Kalat 2007, p. 280.
^ ^a ^b Kalat 2007, p. 281.
^ Galbraith IV 2008, p. 416.
^ Kalat 2007, p. 282.
^ Kalat 2007, p. 283.
^ Crow, Jonathan. "Versus". AllMovie. Retrieved February 3, 2016.

References edit

Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.
Kalat, David (2007). J-horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond. Vertical. ISBN 978-1932234084.

External links edit

Japanese films of 2000 at the Internet Movie Database

[1] Deming, Mark. "Battle Royale". AllMovie. Retrieved February 3, 2016.

[2] Crow, Jonathan. "Brother". AllMovie. Retrieved February 3, 2016.

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008414-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Galbraith IV 2008, p. 414.

[4] Crow, Jonathan. "Dead or Alive 2". AllMovie.

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008415-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Galbraith IV 2008, p. 415.

[6] Crow, Jonathan. "Eureka". AllMovie. Retrieved February 3, 2016.

[7] Deming, Mark. "Godzilla vs. Megaguirus". AllMovie. Retrieved February 3, 2016.

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008417-8] Galbraith IV 2008, p. 417.

[allmovie-9] Deming, Mark. "Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle". AllMovie. Retrieved March 1, 2017.

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008413-10] Galbraith IV 2008, p. 413.

[FOOTNOTEKalat2007280-11] Kalat 2007, p. 280.

[FOOTNOTEKalat2007281-12] Kalat 2007, p. 281.

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008416-13] Galbraith IV 2008, p. 416.

[FOOTNOTEKalat2007282-14] Kalat 2007, p. 282.

[FOOTNOTEKalat2007283-15] Kalat 2007, p. 283.

[16] Crow, Jonathan. "Versus". AllMovie. Retrieved February 3, 2016.

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Summary

Highest-grossing films edit

List of films edit

See also edit

Footnotes edit

References edit

External links edit