# List of Japanese films of 1999
## Highest-grossing films

| Rank | Title | Gross |
| 1 | Pokémon: The Movie 2000 | ¥3.50 billion |
| 2 | Ring 2 | ¥2.10 billion |
| 3 | Poppoya | ¥2.05 billion |
| 4 | Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe | ¥2.00 billion |
| 5 | Case Closed: The Last Wizard of the Century | ¥1.45 billion |

## List of films

A list of films released in Japan in 1999 (see 1999 in film).
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Adolescence of Utena | Kunihiko Ikuhara | | — | |
| Adrenaline Drive | Shinobu Yaguchi | Masanobu Andō, Hikari Ishida, Yutaka Matsushige | Comedy | |
| After the Rain | Takashi Koizumi | Akira Terao, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Shiro Mifune | Drama | Japanese-French co-production |
| Audition | Takashi Miike | Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Miyuki Matsuda | Horror | |
| Away With Words | Christopher Doyle | Tadanobu Asano, Kevin Sherlock, Mavis Xu | Drama | |
| Barren Illusion | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Shinji Takeda, Miako Tadano, Yutaka Yasui | Science fiction | |
| Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie | Morio Asaka | | Animation | |
| Case Closed: The Last Wizard of the Century | Kenji Kodama | | | Animated feature |
| Charisma | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Köji Yakusho, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Ren Osugi | Drama | |
| Dead or Alive | Takashi Miike | Riki Takeuchi | Action | |
| Don't Look Back | Akihiko Shiota | Yusaku Suzuki, Shingo Mizuno, Yuria Haga | Drama | |
| Eiga kureyon Shin-chan–Bakuhatsu! Onsen Wakwaku daikessen | Keiichi Hara | | — | Animated feature |
| EM Embalming | Shinji Aoyama | Reiko Takashima, Yukata Matsushige, Toshio Shiba | Horror | |
| The Haunted School 4 | Hideyuki Hirayama | Mai Toyoda, Matsunosuke Shofukutei, Yuki Minakawa | | |
| Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris | Shusuke Kaneko | Shinobu Nakayama, Ai Maeda, Yukijiro Hotaru | Science fiction | |
| Gemini | Shinya Tsukamoto | Masahiro Motoki, Ryō, Yasutaka Tsutsu | Horror | |
| Gingaman vs. Megaranger | | | | |
| Godzilla 2000: Millennium | Takao Okawara | Takehiro Murata, Shiro Sano, Hiroshi Abe | Science fiction | |
| Himitsu | Yōjirō Takita | Ryōko Hirosue, Kaoru Kobayashi, Kayoko Kishimoto | Fantasy, romance | |
| Japanese Hell | Teruo Ishii | Michiko Maeda, Nozomi Saito | Horror | |
| Jin Roh | Mamoru Oshii | | | |
| Kaizokuban Bootleg Film | Masahiro Kobayashi | | | |
| Keiho | Yoshimitsu Morita | Kyōka Suzuki, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Ittoku Kishibe | Mystery | |
| Kikujiro | Takeshi Kitano | Takeshi Kitano, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto | Comedy-drama | |
| Kureshin Paradaisu! Meido • In • Saitama | Tsutomu Mizushima | | — | Animated feature |
| Ley Lines | Takashi Miike | Kazuki Kitamura, Sho Aihara, Naoto Takenaka | Action, crime | |
| M/Other | Nobuhiro Suwa | Tomokazu Miura, Makiko Watanabe, Ryudai Tatkahashi | Drama | |
| Messengers | Yasuo Baba | Naoko Iijima, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi | Comedy | |
| Moonlight Whispers | Akihiko Shiota | Kenji Mizuhashi, Tsugumi, Kouta Kusano | Drama, romance | |
| My Neighbors the Yamadas | Isao Takahata | | Comedy | |
| Nobita Drifts in the Universe | Tsutomu Shibayama | | | Animated feature |
| Nobita no kekkon Zenya | Ayumu Watanabe | | | Animated short |
| Nodo-Jiman | Kazuyuki Izutus | Shigeru Muroi, Kohei Otomo, Isao Bido | Comedy | |
| Office Lady Love Juice | Yūji Tajiri | Azumi Kubota, Mikio Satō | Pink | |
| Osaka Story | Jun Ichikawa | Chizuru Ikewaki, Kōsuke Minamino, Kenji Sawada | Drama | |
| Owls' Castle | Masahiro Shinoda | Shohei Hino, Shima Iwashita, Takaya Kamikawa | | |
| The Perfect Education | Ben Wada | Naoto Takenaka, Hijiri Kojima, Eriko Watanabe | Drama | |
| Pokémon: The Movie 2000 | Kunihiko Yuyama | | | |
| Pola X | Leos Carax | Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve | Drama | French-German-Japanese-Swiss co-production |
| Poppoya | Yasuo Furuhata | Ken Takakura, Nenji Kobayashi, Shinobu Otake | Drama | |
| Rainbow Over the Cape | Masahiko Okumura | Rentarō Mikuni, Mieko Harada, Isao Natsuyagi | — | |
| Ring 2 | Hideo Nakata | Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Satō, Kyoko Fukada | Horror | |
| Saimin | Masayuki Ochiai | Miho Kann, Ken Utsui, Yukio Watanabe | Horror | |
| Shabondama Elegy | Ian Kerkof | Thom Hoffman, Mai Hoshino, Kiyomi Ito | Crime, romance | Japanese-Dutch co-production |
| Shady Grove | Shinji Aoyama | Arata, Wakaba Nakano | Romantic drama | |
| Shikoku | Shunichi Nagasaki | Chiaki Kuriyama, Yui Natsukawa, Michitaka Tsutsui | Thriller | |
| Silver | Takashi Miike | Atsuko Sakuraba, Kenji Haga, Keiji Matsuda | — | |
| Taboo | Nagisa Oshima | Takeshi Kitano, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano | Drama | |
| Tomie: Another Face | Toshiro Inomata | Akira Shirai, Runa Nagai | Horror | |
| Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna & Ultraman Gaia: Battle in Hyperspace | Kazuya Konaka | Takeshi Yoshioka | | |
| White-Collar Worker Kintaro | Takashi Miike | Katsunori Takahashi, Michiko Hada, Tsutomu Yamazaki | — | |
| Wild Zero | Tetsuro Takeuchi | Guitar Wolf, Makoto Inamiya, Masashi Endo | | |
| Will to Live | Kaneto Shindo | Rentarō Mikuni, Shinobu Otake | | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! | Junji Shimizu | | | |
| Za • Doraemonzu–Okashina Okashina Okashinana | Yoshitomo Yonetani | | | Animated short |