List of Japanese films of 2004

Highest-grossing films

Rank	Title	Gross
1	Crying Out Love in the Center of the World	¥8.50 billion
2	Be with You	¥4.80 billion
3	Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys	¥4.38 billion
4	Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey	¥3.05 billion
5	Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky	¥2.80 billion

List of films

A list of films released in Japan in 2004 (see 2004 in film).

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
2LDK	Yukihiko Tsutsumi	Maho Nonami	Thriller	[1]
Appleseed	Shinji Aramaki			[2]
Abaranger vs. Hurricanger
Be with You	Nobuhiro Doi	Yūko Takeuchi, Shido Nakamura	Drama	[3]
Beyblade: Fierce Battle
Casshern	Kazuaki Kiriya	Yusuke Iseya, Kumiko Asō, Toshiaki Karasawa	Science fiction	[4]
Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Kasukabe Boys of the Evening Sun	Tsutomu Mizushima		—	[5]
Cutie Honey	Hideaki Anno	Eriko Sato, Mikako Ichikawa, Jun Murakami	Science fiction	[6]
Dark Tales of Japan	Masayuki Ochiai, Norio Tsuruta, Takashi Shimizu, Yoshiro Nakamura, Koji Shiraishi		Horror	Television film[7]
Dead Leaves	Hiroyuki Imaishi			[citation needed]
Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky	Taiichiro Yamamoto		—	[5]
Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey	Tsutomu Shibayama		—	[5]
The Face of Jizo	Kazuo Kuroki	Rie Miyazawa, Yoshio Harada, Tadanobu Asano	Drama, History
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence	Mamoru Oshii		Science fiction	[5][8]
Godzilla: Final Wars	Ryuhei Kitamura	Masahiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa, Kazuki Kitamura	Science fiction	[9][10]
Half a Confession	Kiyoshi Sasabe	Akira Terao Mieko Harada		Japan Academy Prize for Best Film
Hana and Alice	Shunji Iwai	Anne Suzuki, Yū Aoi, Tomohiro Kaku	—	[5]
Howl's Moving Castle	Hayao Miyazaki		Fantasy	[3][11][9]
Infection	Masayuki Ochiai	Kōichi Satō, Michiko Hada, Yōko Maki	Horror	.[12][3][13]
Inuyasha the Movie: Fire on the Mystic Island	Toshiya Shinohara		—	[9]
Izo	Takashi Miike	Mickey Curtis, Daisaku Akino, Chisato Amate	Action	[14]
Ju-Rei: The Uncanny	Koji Shiraishi	Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Miku Ueno, Eriko Ichinohe	Horror	[15][16]
Kamen Rider Blade: Missing Ace
Kamikaze Girls	Tetsuya Nakashima	Kyoko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya	Comedy	[17]
Konjiki no Gash Bell!!: 101 Banme no Mamono
Lunch Box	Shinji Imaoka	Yumika Hayashi	Pink	Best Film, Pink Grand Prix
Mind Game	Masaaki Yuasa		Fantasy	[18]
Marebito	Takashi Shimizu	Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara	Horror	[12][19]
Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow	Tensai Okamura			[20]
Naruto - Konoha Sports Festival	Hayato Date			[20]
Nin x Nin: Ninja Hattori-kun, the Movie	Masayuki Suzuki	Kazuyuki Asano, Mikihisa Azuma, Yuri Chinen		[20]
Nobody Knows	Hirokazu Koreeda	Yūya Yagira	Drama	[21]
One Piece the Movie: Curse of the Sacred Sword
Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys	Kunihiko Yuyama		—	[20]
Premonition	Tsuruta Norio	Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai, Hana Inoue	Horror	[3][22]
Saint Seiya: Heaven Chapter ~ Overture
Steamboy	Katsuhiro Otomo		Science fiction	[20][23][24]
Survive Style 5+	Gen Sekiguchi	Vinnie Jones, Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto		[25][26]
Swing Girls	Shinobu Yaguchi	Juri Ueno, Yuta Hiraoka, Shihori Kanjiya	Comedy	[20][3][27]
The Taste of Tea	Katsuhito Ishii		Comedy-drama	[28][29]
Three... Extremes	Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Park Chan-wook	Miriam Yeung, Lee Byung-hun, Kyōko Hasegawa	Horror	Hong Kong-South Korean-Japanese co-production[30][31]
Tony Takitani	Jun Ichikawa	Issey Ogata, Rie Miyazawa, Takahumi Shinohara	Drama	[32][33]
Ultraman: The Next	Kazuya Konaka
Vital	Shinya Tsukamoto	Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto	Drama	[34][35]
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light	Hatsuki Tsuji			American-Japanese co-production[36]
Zebraman	Takashi Miike	Atsuro Watabe, Teruyoshi Uchimura, Yui Ichikawa	Comedy	[37][38]

See also

• 2004 in Japan
• 2004 in Japanese television