List of Japanese films of 1988

A list of films released in Japan in 1988 (see 1988 in film).

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
A Chaos of Flowers
Akira	Katsuhiro Otomo		Science fiction	Animated film[1][2]
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad	Eriko Watanabe Tetsuya Nakashima Takahito Hara Yukihiko Tsutsumi	Narumi Yasuda, Haruko Sagara
The Discarnates	Nobuhiko Obayashi			Entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival
Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure
Guinea Pig: Android of Notre Dame			Horror
Guinea Pig: Mermaid in a Manhole[3]			Horror	Part of the Guinea Pig films series; Direct-to-video
Esper Mami: Hoshizora no Dancing Doll[4]			Magical girl, family, drama
Grave of the Fireflies	Isao Takahata		—	Animated feature[5][6]
Hare Tokidoki Buta	Toshio Hirata		family, comedy
Hope and Pain	Yoji Yamada			Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival
Kamen Rider Black: Hurry to Evil Island
Kamen Rider Black: Fear! Evil Monster Mansion
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack	Yoshiyuki Tomino	Toru Furuya	Science fiction
My Neighbor Totoro	Hayao Miyazaki		—	Animated feature[6]
Rock yo shizukani nagareyo	Shunichi Nagasaki	Kenichi Okamoto, Shoji Narita, Kazuya Takahashi, koyo Maeda	Coming-of-age story	[5]
Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods
Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth
The Silk Road	Junya Sato	Toshiyuki Nishida, Koichi Sato, Anna Nakagawa	—	[7]
Sukeban Deka the Movie 2: Counter-Attack from the Kazama Sisters	Hideo Tanaka	Yui Asaka, Yuka Onishi, Yuma Nakamura
Tatakae!! Ramenman the Movie
A Taxing Woman's Return	Juzo Itami	Nobuko Miyamoto, Rentarō Mikuni, Toru Masuoka	—	[8]
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis	Akio Jissoji
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial	Yoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi	Comedy	40th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
Umi e, See You	Koreyoshi Kurahara	Ken Takakura, Junko Sakurada, Nenji Kobayashi	Action, Drama	[9]
Wuthering Heights	Yoshishige Yoshida			Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
Urusei Yatsura Movie 5 – The Final Chapter	Osamu Dezaki		—	Animated feature[5]
Yojo no jidai

See also

• 1988 in Japan
• 1988 in Japanese television