Top 10 Japanese Box Office Movies for 2016 (Non-Anime Movies)
List based on In-Year Releases and retrieved from Box Office Mojo website
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2016/?area=JP&grossesOption=totalGrosses
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2016/?area=JP&grossesOption=totalGrosses
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- DirectorHideaki AnnoShinji HiguchiStarsHiroki HasegawaYutaka TakenouchiSatomi IshiharaJapan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.
- DirectorHiroaki MatsuyamaStarsShun OguriKô ShibasakiTakayuki YamadaThis adaptation to a popular manga is the story of a contemporary teenager travelling back in time to the Sengoku period of the sixteenth century. There he meets with the historical figure Oda Nobunaga who instills in him the mission to deliver peace to Japan. Being aware that Oda may soon die, and the plot that accompanies the occurrence, the protagonist debates altering the outcome of what may yet come to be.
- DirectorEiichirô HasumiStarsMasaki SudaKanna HashimotoRyôsuke YamadaThe story of the assassination classroom and their teacher target continues with the students' own conflicts, Korosensei's identity, and the fate of the world as the deadline for assassination approaches.
- DirectorKôichirô MikiStarsJôji AbeKazuyuki AijimaDuncanSayaka works as a property agent. One day after work, she finds a man, named Itsuki, collapsed outside her house. She takes him in and they start to live together. Itsuki teaches her about cooking and plants, but holds many secrets.
- DirectorShinsuke SatoStarsSôsuke IkematsuNoémie NakaiMasaki SudaAn update to the "Death Note" series in which a mysterious notebook contains deadly powers.
- DirectorTakahisa ZezeStarsKôichi SatôGô AyanoNana Eikura1989 is 64 Shouwa year in Japanese calendar, thus unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in Prefectural Police Department.
- DirectorTakashi YamazakiStarsJun'ichi OkadaHidetaka YoshiokaShôta SometaniThe grand story of Japan's post-war reconstruction is based on the actual story of an oil company's president, namely Tetsuzo Kunioka, who believed in the power of oil, as opposed to coal, to abet the country's re-emergence. He believes Japan's resurgence must be fueled by oil and not by coal. Japan is weak, in ruins and has a devastated citizenry. Foreign powers watch and the country is isolated, yet the man takes over an oil tanker on a secret mission to the oil-rich Iran.
- DirectorTakahisa ZezeStarsKôichi SatôGô AyanoNana EikuraIn 2002, a new kidnapping case takes place. The kidnapper introduces himself as "Sato" (sugar) and demands twenty million yen for ransom.
- DirectorShigeaki KuboStarsJoshua WaltersRyôhei AbeLeon Shibli AhmadChiku is a devastated and dangerous town with 5 gangs fighting fiercely. Mugen and the Amamiya Brothers clashed, leading to Mugen disbanding.
- DirectorKankurô KudôStarsTomoya NagaseRyunosuke KamikiAoi MorikawaSupernatural comedy about an unlucky high school student who dies in a bus crash during a school trip only to be press-ganged into a demonic rock band in Hell. Daisuke (Ryunosuke Kamiki) wants to confess his crush to his would-be girlfriend Hiromi (Aoi Morikawa), only to die unexpectedly and find himself in Hell. There Daisuke encounters the flamboyant Killer K (Tomoya Nagase), the lead guitar and vocalist of the infernal rock band known as Hells, and together they embark on a hard-rocking tour of the Afterlife in an attempt to get Daisuke back to the Land of the Living and the girl he loves.