List of Japanese films of 2000 explained

Highest-grossing films

Rank	Title	Gross
1
2	Whiteout
3

List of films

A list of films released in Japan in 2000 (see 2000 in film).

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
Battle Royale		Tatsuya Fujiwara	Thriller	[1]
Brother		Beat Takeshi, Omar Epps, Claude Maki	Crime	[2]
			Animation
Chaos		Miki Nakatani, Masato Hagiwara, Ken Mitsuishi	Mystery-thriller
			Animated
			Crime	[3]
Doki Doki Wildcat Engine			Animated
Dora-Heita		Kōji Yakusho, Yuko Asano, Bunta Sugawara	Comedy
			Animated
			Anime
Escaflowne		Maaya Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Seki
Eureka		Kōji Yakusho, Ken Mitsuishi, Yutaka Matsushige	Drama	[4]
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus		Misato Tanaka, Shosuke Tanihara, Masato Ibu	Science fiction, action	[5]
Gojoe			Action	[6]
Isn't She Great				American-British-German-Japanese co-production
Isola		Yoshino Kimura, Yu Kurosawa, Ken Ishiguro	Horror
Ju-on			Horror	Direct-to-video release.
Ju-on 2		Yuuko Daike, Makoto Ashikawa, Kahori Fuji		Horror	Direct-to-video release
Juvenile
Keizoku-Unsolved Cases		Kiyoshi Nakajo, Atsuro Watanabe, Nanako Okochi
GoGoV: Sudden Shock! A New Warrior!
GoGoV vs. Gingaman
Like a Flowing River		Mitsuko Mori, Kunie Tanaka, Yoshiko Kuga
Mononoke hime in U.S.A.		Hayao Miyazaki	Documentary
Nagai Yume	Higuchinsky	Shuuji Kashiwabara, Masami Horiuchi, Eriko Hatsune	Horror	Television film
Off-Balance
				First One Piece movie.
Pikachu & Pichu			Animated
			Anime
Pyrokinesis		Akiko Yada, Hideaki Itō, Ryuji Harada	Horror
			Horror
		Emi Kawana, Yumi Yoshiyuki	Pink	Best Film, Pink Grand Prix
Senrigan		Miki Mizuno, Hitomi Kuroki, Toshirou Yanagiba
Sunday's Dream				Screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival
Titan A.E.			Animated science fiction action-adventure
		Mai Hosho, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Yosuke Kubozukai	Horror
Uzumaki		Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki	Horror
Versus		Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki	Action, horror	[7]

See also

• 2000 in Japan
• 2000 in Japanese television

Footnotes

References

• Book: Galbraith IV, Stuart . The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography . 2008 . . 978-1461673743.
• Book: Kalat, David . J-horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond . Vertical . 2007 . 978-1932234084 .

External links

• Japanese films of 2000 at the Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Battle Royale. AllMovie. February 3, 2016. Deming. Mark.
2. Web site: Brother. AllMovie. February 3, 2016. Crow. Jonathan.
3. Web site: Dead or Alive 2. AllMovie. Crow. Jonathan.
4. Web site: Eureka. AllMovie. February 3, 2016. Crow. Jonathan.
5. Web site: Godzilla vs. Megaguirus. AllMovie. February 3, 2016. Deming. Mark.
6. Web site: Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle . AllMovie . March 1, 2017. Deming, Mark.
7. Web site: Versus. AllMovie. February 3, 2016. Crow. Jonathan.