# List of Japanese films of 2000
## Highest-grossing films

| Rank | Title | Gross |
| 1 | Pokémon 3: The Movie | ¥4.85 billion |
| 2 | Whiteout | ¥4.20 billion |
| 3 | Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King | ¥3.05 billion |

## List of films

A list of films released in Japan in 2000 (see 2000 in film).
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Battle Royale | Kinji Fukasaku | Tatsuya Fujiwara | Thriller | |
| Brother | Takeshi Kitano | Beat Takeshi, Omar Epps, Claude Maki | Crime | |
| Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card | Morio Asaka | | Animation | |
| Case Closed: Captured in Her Eyes | Kanetsugu Kodama | | Animation | |
| Chaos | Hideo Nakata | Miki Nakatani, Masato Hagiwara, Ken Mitsuishi | Mystery-thriller | |
| Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called The Jungle | Keiichi Hara | | Animated | |
| Dead or Alive 2: Birds | Takashi Miike | Show Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi | Crime | |
| Doki Doki Wildcat Engine | Hiroshi Nishikiori | | Animated | |
| Dora-Heita | Kon Ichikawa | Kōji Yakusho, Yuko Asano, Bunta Sugawara | Comedy | |
| Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections | Ayumu Watanabe | | Animated | |
| Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King | Tsutomu Shibayama | | Anime | |
| Escaflowne | Kazuki Akane | Maaya Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Seki | Anime | |
| Eureka | Shinji Aoyama | Kōji Yakusho, Ken Mitsuishi, Yutaka Matsushige | Drama | |
| Godzilla vs. Megaguirus | Masaki Tezuka | Misato Tanaka, Shosuke Tanihara, Masato Ibu | Science fiction, action | |
| Gojoe | Gakuryu Ishii | Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase | Action | |
| GTO: The Movie | | | | |
| Isn't She Great | Andrew Bergman | Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, David Hyde Pierce | | American-British-German-Japanese co-production |
| Isola | Toshiyuki Mizutani | Yoshino Kimura, Yu Kurosawa, Ken Ishiguro | Horror | |
| Ju-on | Takashi Shimizu | Yurei Yanagi, Chiaki Kuriyama, Takako Fuji | Horror | Direct-to-video release. |
| Ju-on 2 | Takashi Shimizu | Yuuko Daike, Makoto Ashikawa, Kahori Fuji | Horror | Direct-to-video release |
| Juvenile | Takashi Yamazaki | | | |
| Keizoku-Unsolved Cases | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Kiyoshi Nakajo, Atsuro Watanabe, Nanako Okochi | | |
| GoGoV: Sudden Shock! A New Warrior! | | | | |
| GoGoV vs. Gingaman | | | | |
| Like a Flowing River | Yasushi Akimoto | Mitsuko Mori, Kunie Tanaka, Yoshiko Kuga | | |
| Mononoke hime in U.S.A. | Toshikazu Sato | Hayao Miyazaki | Documentary | |
| Nagai Yume | Higuchinsky | Shuuji Kashiwabara, Masami Horiuchi, Eriko Hatsune | Horror | Television film |
| Off-Balance | Shin Togashi | | | |
| One Piece: The Movie | | Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi | Animation | First One Piece movie. |
| Pikachu & Pichu | Kunihiko Yuyama | | Animated | |
| Pokémon 3: The Movie | Kunihiko Yuyama | | Anime | |
| Pyrokinesis | Shusuke Kaneko | Akiko Yada, Hideaki Itō, Ryuji Harada | Horror | |
| Ring 0: Birthday | Tsuruta Norio | Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe, Yoshiko Tanaka | Horror | |
| Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay | Tarō Araki | Emi Kawana, Yumi Yoshiyuki | Pink | Best Film, Pink Grand Prix |
| Senrigan | Manabu Iso | Miki Mizuno, Hitomi Kuroki, Toshirou Yanagiba | | |
| Sunday's Dream | Yōichirō Takahashi | | | Screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival |
| Titan A.E. | Don Bluth, Gary Goldman | Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo, Drew Barrymore | Animated science fiction action-adventure | |
| Tomie: Replay | Tomijiro Mitsuishi | Mai Hosho, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Yosuke Kubozukai | Horror | |
| Uzumaki | Higuchinsky | Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki | Horror | |
| Versus | Ryuhei Kitamura | Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki | Action, horror | |