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

References

Footnotes

1. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 96.
2. Erickson, Hal. "Akira". AllMovie . Retrieved 28 November 2016.
3. ザ・ギニーピッグ マンホールの中の人魚(1988). Allcinema.net (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
4. Justin Sevakis (24 June 2014). "ESPer Mami: Hoshizora no Dancing Doll". Anime News Network . Retrieved 28 June 2014.
5. Galbraith IV 2008, p. 359.
6. Galbraith IV 2008, p. 360.
7. Galbraith IV 2008, p. 361.
8. Galbraith IV 2008, p. 358.
9. "See You to the Sea (1988)". www.allcinema.net. Retrieved March 1, 2025.

Sources

• Galbraith IV, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography: 1900 through 1994. McFarland. ISBN   0-7864-0032-3.
• Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-1461673743.

External links

• Japanese films of 1988 at the Internet Movie Database