Top 10 Japanese Box Office Movies for 2022 (Non-Anime Movies)
List based on In-Year Releases and retrieved from Box Office Mojo website
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2022/?area=JP&grossesOption=totalGrosses
Note:
Excluding music movies.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2022/?area=JP&grossesOption=totalGrosses
Note:
Excluding music movies.
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- DirectorShinsuke SatoStarsKento YamazakiRyô YoshizawaKanna HashimotoIt follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.
- DirectorShinji HiguchiIkki TodorokiStarsTakumi SaitôMasami NagasawaHidetoshi NishijimaAs the threat of giant unidentified lifeforms known as "S-Class Species" worsens in Japan, a silver giant appears from beyond Earth's atmosphere.
- DirectorRyô TanakaStarsMasami NagasawaFumiyo KohinataMasahiro HigashideDako, Boku-chan, and Richard commit their next con on Malta Island.
- DirectorMichihito FujiiStarsNana KomatsuKentarô SakaguchiYuki YamadaTwenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love, but she meets Kazuto Manabe at a school reunion.
- DirectorHiroshi NishitaniStarsMasaharu FukuyamaKô ShibasakiKazuki KitamuraA man suspected of murdering a young girl is released due to a lack of evidence. He begins taunting his victim's family but is soon found murdered. However, that young girl might not have been his only victim.
- DirectorTakahisa ZezeStarsKazunari NinomiyaKeiko KitagawaTôri MatsuzakaHatao Yamamoto was a Japanese prisoner of war detained in a post second World War Siberian gulag. He believed that he would be able to reunite with his wife and children in Japan and fought to keep hope alive for his fellow POWs.
- DirectorIsamu NakaeStarsYû AoiAyumi ItoRyunosuke KamikiDr. Goto, a surgeon who left Tokyo after making a mistake and took charge of a clinic on a small island in Okinawa. His presence there helped the islanders and he became a valued member of their remote society and married nurse Ayaka.
- DirectorEiichirô HasumiStarsKanna HashimotoGordon MaedaMaika YamamotoA high school student and her friends are trapped in a time loop by a ghost and the only way to escape is to find the corpse of the ghost's previous victim.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsShunsuke MichiedaRiko FukumotoKotone FurukawaBecause of his bullying classmates, Toru Kamiya makes a false confession to his classmate Maori Hino. Her tells her that he likes her, but she lays out rules for him if they are to date. One of her rules is that they are not to fall in love with each other. Toru and Maori begin to date and have a good time together. Soon, Toru breaks his promise and falls in love with Maori. When Toru makes a heartfelt confession to her, Maori informs him that she has a disease. When she wakes up, her disease causes her to have no memory of the day before. She keeps a diary of what happened the day before and reads it in the morning to be able to recall her memories. Toru decides to bring to her as many happy days as possible.
- DirectorRyûichi HirokiStarsKasumi ArimuraHinako KikuchiRen MeguroTsuyoshi Osanai (Yo Oizumi) enjoys a peaceful and happy life with his wife Kozue Osanai (Kou Shibasaki) and daughter Ruri Osanai, but his wife and daughter die in an accident. Tsuyoshi Osanai's life suddenly changes. One day, a man named Akihiko Misumi (Ren Meguro) visits Tsuyoshi Osanai. Akihiko Misumi tells him that on the day Kozue Osanai and Ruri Osanai died, Ruri Osanai, who was a complete stranger to him, was coming to see him. Akihiko Misumi tells him about a woman named Ruri Masaki (Kasumi Arimura), who he once loved. These people, who don't seem related, connect under the name of love.