# List of Japanese films of 2010
## Highest-grossing films

| Rank | Title | Gross |
| 1 | Arrietty | ¥9.25 billion |
| 2 | Umizaru 3: The Last Message | ¥8.04 billion |
| 3 | Bayside Shakedown 3 | ¥7.31 billion |
| 4 | One Piece Film: Strong World | ¥4.80 billion |
| 5 | Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions | ¥4.16 billion |

## List of films

A list of films produced in Japan in 2010 (see 2010 in film):
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 3 April | Accidental Kidnapper | Hideo Sakaki | Katsunori Takahashi, Show Aikawa, Roi Hayashi | Crime comedy | |
| 13 March | After the Flowers | Kenji Nakanish | Keiko Kitagawa, Masahiro Komoto, Shuntaro Miyao | Costume drama | |
| 3 July | Alien vs Ninja | Seiji Chiba | Masanori Mimoto, Shuji Kashiwabara, Donpei Tsuchihira | Martial Arts Science Fiction Comedy | |
| 17 July | Arrietty | Hiromasa Yonebayashi | | Anime | |
| 4 September | Beck | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Hiro Mizushima, Takeru Satoh, Kenta Kiritani | | |
| 24 October | Birthright | Naoki Hashimoto | Sayoko Oho, Miyu Yagyu, Ryoko Takizawa | Horror | |
| 5 June | Black Rat | Kenta Fukasaku | Misaki Yonemura, Hiroya Matsumoto, Rina Saito | | |
| 4 December | Bleach: Hell Verse | | | Anime | |
| 1 May | Book Girl | | | Anime | Based on a light novel |
| 22 May | Box! | Toshio Lee | Hayato Ichihara, Kengo Kora, Mitsuki Tanimura | Sports drama | |
| 31 July | A Boy and His Samurai | Yoshihiro Nakamura | Ryo Nishikido, Rie Tomosaka, Fuku Suzuki, Hiroki Konno | | Based on a manga |
| 15 February | Caterpillar | Kōji Wakamatsu | Shinobu Terajima | War | |
| 7 September | Cold Fish | Sion Sono | Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa | Thriller | |
| 21 August | Colorful | Keiichi Hara | | Anime | |
| 5 June | Confessions | Tetsuya Nakashima | Takako Matsu | Thriller | |
| | Dancing Chaplin | Masayuki Suo | Luigo Bonino, Tamiyo Kusakari, Roland Petit | Documentary | |
| 17 April | Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky | | | Anime | |
| 6 February | The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya | Tatsuya Ishihara, Yasuhiro Takemoto | Aya Hirano, Tomokazu Sugita, Minori Chihara, Yūko Gotō Daisuke Ono | Anime | Based on a light novel |
| 6 March | Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King | | | Anime | |
| 13 March | Eden of the East: Paradise Lost | Kenji Kamiyama | | Anime | |
| 23 January | Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works | Yūji Yamaguchi | Noriaki Sugiyama, Ayako Kawasumi, Kana Ueda | Anime | |
| 30 October | Garo: Red Requiem | Keita Amemiya | Ryosei Konishi, Mary Matsuyama, Yôsuke Saitô [ja] | Fantasy | |
| 20 November | GeGeGe no Nyōbō | Takuji Suzuki | Kazue Fukiishi, Kankurō Kudō | | Based on a book |
| 4 September | Gothic & Lolita Psycho | Go Ohara | Rina Akiyama | Action | |
| 21 August | Hanamizuki | Nobuhiro Doi | Yui Aragaki, Toma Ikuta, Misako Renbutsu | Romance | |
| 3 April | Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora | Yoshihiro Fukagawa | | | Based on a light novel |
| 22 May | Haru's Journey | Masahiro Kobayashi | Tatsuya Nakadai, Eri Tokunaga, Hideji Otaki | Road | |
| 2 October | Heaven's Story | Takahisa Zeze | Moeki Tsuruoka, Tomoharu Hasegawa, Shugo Oshinari | Drama | |
| 28 September | Helldriver | Yoshihiro Nishimura | Yumiko Hara, Eihi Shiina, Yurei Yanagi | Splatter | |
| 4 September | Here Comes the Bride, My Mom! | Mipo Oh | Shinobu Otake, Aoi Miyazaki, Kenta Kiritani | | |
| 9 January | Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island | Kim Tae-kyun | Koji Yamamoto, Miori Takimoto | Horror | |
| | Hospitalité | Koji Fukada | Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino, Kanji Furutachi | Black comedy | |
| | Hot as Hell: The Deadbeat March | Yosuke Okuda | Itabashi Shunya, Waki Katakura, Kenraku Tamura | Crime comedy-drama | |
| 31 July | Hutch the Honeybee | Tetsurō Amino | | Anime | |
| 23 December | Inazuma Eleven: Saikyō Gundan Ōgre Shūrai | | | Anime | |
| 25 October | Into the White Night | Yoshihiro Fukagawa | Maki Horikita, Kengo Kora, Eiichiro Funakoshi | Crime | |
| 25 September | Kimi ni Todoke | Naoto Kumazawa | Mikako Tabe, Haruma Miura | Romance, Drama | |
| 3 April | Kakera: A Piece of Our Life | | Hikari Mitsushima, Eriko Nakamura | | |
| 15 May | Ongakubito | Hidetaka Itō | Kazuma Sano, Mirei Kiritani | Romance | |
| 22 May 5 June 19 July | Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy | Osamu Kaneda, Kenzō Maihara, Takayuki Shibasaki | Yuichi Nakamura, Dori Sakurada, Kimito Totani | | |
| 7 August | Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate | Koichi Sakamoto | Renn Kiriyama, Masaki Suda, Hikaru Yamamoto, Minehiro Kinomoto, Mitsuru Matsuoka, Genki Sudo, Aya Sugimoto | | |
| 18 December | Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core | | Renn Kiriyama, Masaki Suda, Hikaru Yamamoto, Minehiro Kinomoto, Kikkawa Koji, Shu Watanabe | | |
| 14 August | Kinako | Yoshinori Kobayashi | | Comedy | Based on a true story |
| 1 May | King of Thorn | Kazuyoshi Katayama | | Anime | |
| 10 July | Kyōfu | Hiroshi Takahashi | Mana Fujii, Yuri Nakamura, Nagisa Katahira | Horror | |
| | The Lady Shogun and Her Men | Fuminori Kaneko | Kazunari Ninomiya, Ko Shibasaki, Maki Horikita | Costume fantasy drama | |
| 4 December | Light Novel no Tanoshii Kakikata | Kenichi Ōmori | Maasa Sudo, Hisanori Satō, Ayana Taketatsu | | Based on a light novel |
| 22 October | The Lightning Tree | Ryuichi Hiroki | Masaki Okada, Yū Aoi, Keisuke Koide | Costume romance | |
| 4 September | Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano | Hisayasu Satō | Norie Yasui, Mayu Sakuma | Drama | Based on a novel |
| 6 November | Maria-sama ga Miteru | | Honoka Miki, Haru | | Based on a light novel |
| 18 September | Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: Awakening of the Trailblazer | | | Anime | |
| 22 May | Mutant Girls Squad | Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Tak Sakaguchi | Yumi Sugimoto, Yuko Takayama, Suzuka Morita | Splatter | |
| 31 July | Naruto Shippūden 4: The Lost Tower | | | Anime | |
| 2 September | Norwegian Wood | Tran Anh Hung | Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara | Drama | |
| 1 October | Ōoku | Fuminori Kaneko | | | |
| 30 January | Otōto | Yoji Yamada | Sayuri Yoshinaga Tsurube Shofukutei Yū Aoi | | Special screening at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival |
| 17 May | Outrage | Takeshi Kitano | Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase | Gangster black comedy | |
| 20 November | Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night | Toshikazu Nagae | Aoi Nakamura, Noriko Aoyama, Ayako Yoshitani | Horror | |
| 10 July | Phantom Ruler: Zoroark | Kunihiko Yuyama | Rica Matsumoto, Megumi Toyoguchi, Yūji Ueda, Ikue Ōtani | Anime | |
| 22 May | Planzet | Jun Awazu | | Anime Science fiction | |
| 29 May | Railways | Yoshinari Nishikori | Kiichi Nakai, Reiko Takashima | Drama | |
| 9 October | Redline | Takeshi Koike | | Anime | |
| 30 January | Samurai Sentai Shinkenger vs. Go-onger: GinmakuBang!! | Shōjirō Nakazawa | Tori Matsuzaka, Hiroki Aiba, Rin Takanashi, Shogo Suzuki, Suzuka Morita, Keisuke Sohma | | |
| 26 June | Sankaku | Keisuke Yoshida | Sousuke Takaoka, Tomoko Tabata, Erena Ono | | |
| 29 April | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Edgar Wright | Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ellen Wong, Kieran Culkin | | Based on the comic books. A UK-USA-Japan co-production. |
| 15 May | Shodo Girls!! | Ryuichi Inomata | Riko Narumi | Teen | Based on a true story |
| 18 December | Sketches of Kaitan City | Kazuyoshi Kumakiri | Mitsuki Tanimura, Pistol Takehara, Ryo Kase | | Based on a collected short story series |
| 3 April | Solanin | Takahiro Miki | Aoi Miyazaki | | Based on a manga |
| 1 December | Space Battleship Yamato | Takashi Yamazaki | Meisa Kuroki | | |
| 30 January | Takumi-kun Series: Bibō no Detail | Kenji Yokoi | Kyousuke Hamao, Daisuke Watanabe | | Based on Takumi-kun: Bibō no Detail |
| 7 August | Tensou Sentai Goseiger: Epic on the Movie | | | | |
| 22 May | Tetsuo: The Bullet Man | Shinya Tsukamoto | Eric Bossick, Akiko Monō, Shinya Tsukamoto | | |
| 25 September | Thirteen Assassins | Takashi Miike | Kōji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya | Costume martial arts | Japan-UK co-production |
| 23 December | Ultraman Zero The Movie: Super Deciding Fight! The Belial Galactic Empire | Yuichi Abe | Yu Koyanagi, Tatsuomi Hamada, Tao Tsuchiya | | |
| 18 February | Welcome to the Space Show | Koji Masunari | | Anime | Premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival prior to nationwide release |
| 23 January | Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time | | Shunsuke Kazama, Kenn, Yuya Miyashita, Atsushi Tamura | Anime | |
| 8 May | Yuriko's Aroma | Kōta Yoshida | Noriko Eguchi, Shōta Sometani, Saori Hara | Erotic comedy drama | |
| 1 May | Zebraman: Vengeful Zebra City | Takashi Miike | | | |