Top 10 Japanese Box Office Movies for 2021
List based on In-Year Releases and retrieved from Box Office Mojo website
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2021/?area=JP&grossesOption=totalGrosses
Note:
Excluding music movies.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2021/?area=JP&grossesOption=totalGrosses
Note:
Excluding music movies.
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- DirectorSunghoo ParkStarsChinatsu AkasakiAya EndôKana HanazawaThe prequel to Jujutsu Kaisen (2020), where a high schooler gains control of an extremely powerful cursed spirit and gets enrolled in the Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School by Jujutsu Sorcerers.
- DirectorMahiro MaedaKatsuichi NakayamaKazuya TsurumakiStarsMegumi OgataMegumi HayashibaraYûko MiyamuraMisato and her anti-NERV group WILLE arrive in Paris, a city now red from core-ization. Crew from the flagship Wunder land on a containment tower.
- DirectorTomoka NagaokaStarsMinami TakayamaWakana YamazakiRikiya KoyamaJapan is celebrating the upcoming World Sports Games in Tokyo. The world's first vacuum-tube super-conducting linear train is built with the latest Japanese technology and timed to coincide with the WSG opening ceremonies.
- DirectorMamoru HosodaStarsKaho NakamuraRyo NaritaShôta SometaniSuzu is a shy high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters "U", a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer.
- DirectorTsutomu HanabusaStarsTakumi KitamuraYuki YamadaYôsuke SuginoA middle-aged loser travels in time to his school years, and, in order to save the love of his life from future doom, he must become the leader of a dreaded school gang.
- DirectorKeishi OtomoStarsTakeru SatohMackenyuEmi TakeiKenshin's past catches up to him causing the destruction of Akabeko Restaurant, which was Kenshin's favorite place to eat. There, he finds a note with the word "Junchu" on it.
- DirectorNobuhiro DoiStarsMasaki SudaKasumi ArimuraKaya KiyoharaA love story spanning 5 years between a man and a woman. A 22-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman both miss the last train at Meidaimae Station in Tokyo and meet there. Their relationship develops romantically.
- DirectorMasayuki SuzukiStarsMasami NagasawaTakuya KimuraRyo IshibashiAn anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at the countdown party Masquerade Night that will be held at Hotel Cortesia Tokyo.
- DirectorKenji NagasakiStarsDaiki YamashitaNobuhiko OkamotoYûki KajiWhen a cult of terrorists ruins a city by releasing a toxin that causes people's abilities to spiral out of control, Japan's greatest heroes spread around the world in an attempt to track down the mastermind and put him to justice.
- StarsJun MatsumotoTeruyuki KagawaHana SugisakiHiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has become the director of the law firm. One day, the law firm receives a request about a case that took place 15 years ago. The case was about a poisonous wine incident.