List of Japanese films of 2002

The following is a list of Japanese films distributed in 2002.

Highest-grossing films

Rank	Title	Gross
1	The Cat Returns	¥6.46 billion
2	Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street	¥3.40 billion
3	Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack	¥2.71 billion
4	Pokémon Heroes	¥2.67 billion
5	Doraemon: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom	¥2.31 billion

List of films

A list of films released in Japan in 2002 (see 2002 in film).

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
6 Angels	Makoto Kobayashi
Alive	Ryuhei Kitamura	Hideo Sakaki, Tak Sakaguchi	Horror
The Cat Returns	Hiroyuki Morita		Fantasy, Anime
Crayon Shin-chan: The Battle of the Warring States
Dark Water	Hideo Nakata		Horror
Dead or Alive: Final	Takashi Miike	Riki Takeuchi, Show Aikawa	Action, Science fiction
Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street
Dolls	Takeshi Kitano	Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima	Drama
Doing Time	Yoichi Sai	Tsutomu Yamazaki, Teruyuki Kagawa	Drama
Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom	Tsutomu Shibayama	Nobuyo Ōyama, Nobita Nobi, Michiko Nomura, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Kazuya Tatekabe	Anime	26th film in the Doraemon film series.
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla	Masaaki Tezuka		Kaiju
Harmful Insect	Akihiko Shiota	Aoi Miyazaki, Seiichi Tanabe	Drama
Hurricanger Movie
Hurricanger vs. Gaoranger
Inuyasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass		Kappei Yamaguchi, Satsuki Yukino	Fantasy anime
Kamen Rider Ryuki: Episode Final
Kinnikuman Nisei: Muscle Carrot Competition! The Great Choujin War
The Laughing Frog	Hideyuki Hirayama	Kyōzō Nagatsuka, Nene Ootsuka, Yuika Motokariya	Comedy
One Piece the Movie: Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals		Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Hirata, Ikue Ōtani	Fantasy anime
Poketto Monsutā Ratiasu and Ratiosu, the Guardian Gods of the Water Capital			Fantasy anime
Returner	Takashi Yamazaki	Anne Suzuki, Takeshi Kaneshiro	Science fiction	[1]
The Ring	Gore Verbinski	Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox	Psychological supernatural horror
A Saloon Wet with Beautiful Women	Tatsurō Kashihara	Koharu Yamasaki	Pink	Best Film, Pink Grand Prix
Suicide Club	Shion Sono	Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase	Horror
Tomie: The Final Chapter -Forbidden Fruit-
The Twilight Samurai	Yoji Yamada	Hiroyuki Sanada	Samurai film	Blue Ribbon Award winner Japan Academy Prize for Best Film
Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet		Kaori Sakagami, Hidekazu Ichinose
Women in the Mirror	Yoshishige Yoshida	Mariko Okada, Yoshiko Tanaka	Drama	Screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival

See also

• 2002 in Japan
• 2002 in Japanese television

References

Footnotes

1. Galbraith IV 2008, p. 424.

Sources

• Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-1461673743 . Retrieved October 29, 2013.

External links

• Japanese films of 2002 at the Internet Movie Database