# List of Japanese films of 1991

A list of films released in Japan in 1991 (see 1991 in film).
Japanese films released in 1991 :
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| !<Ai·Oo> | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Kyohei Shibata, Kazukiyo Nishikiori, Kenji Otsuki | — | |
| 964 Pinocchio | Shozin Fukui | | Science fiction | |
| Cho shojo REIKO | Takao Okawara | Arisa Mizuki, Ken Osawa, Wakako Shimazaki | — | |
| Deer Friend | Yukihiro Sawada | Tomokazu Miura, Midori Kanazawa, Teppei Yamada | — | |
| Denei shoujo | Ryu Kaneda | Ken Osawa, Kaori Sakagami, Hiromi Hamaguchi | — | |
| Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights | Tsutomu Shibayama, Daikichiro Kusube | | — | Animated film |
| Domo Arigato | | | 3-D travelogue | |
| Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug | | | | |
| Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge | | | | |
| Eyecatch Junction | Takashi Miike | Lisa Tachibana, Hiroko Nakajima, Aiko Asano | — | Direct-to-video release |
| Fushigi no umi no Nadia | Kaoru Umeno | | — | Animated film |
| Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah | Kazuki Ōmori | Kosuke Toyohara, Anna Nakagawa, Megumi Odaka | — | |
| Happy Wedding | Yoshimitsu Morita | Yoshiko Mita, Yuki Saito, Toshiaki Karasawa | — | |
| Haroo Kiteii-Maho no mori Ohimesama | Hidemi Kubo | | — | Animated film |
| Hiruko the Goblin | Shinya Tsukamoto | Kenji Sawada, Masaki Kudo, Rin Miyama | | |
| Journey of Honor | Gordon Hessler | Sho Kosugi, David Essex, Toshiro Mifune | Jidai-geki | |
| Kerokero Keroppi no sanjushi | Masami Hata | | — | Animated film |
| Lady Hunter | Takashi Miike | Yoshie Kashiwabara, Ko Murata, Naomi Morinaga | — | Direct-to-video release |
| Manatsu no Chikyū | Osamu Murakami | Kikuchi Kenichirō [ja], Eri Fukatsu, Michitaka Tsutsui [ja] | Drama | |
| Misty | Toshiharu Ikeda | Toshiyuki Nagashima, Miho Tsumiki, Yoshie Ichige | — | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam F91 | Yoshiyuki Tomino | | Science fiction | Animated film |
| My Sons | Yoji Yamada | Rentarō Mikuni, Masatoshi Nagase, Emi Wakui | | |
| My Soul Is Slashed | Shusuke Kaneko | Ken Ogata, Tatsuro Morimoto, Narumi Yasuda | Vampire | |
| Nami no kazudake dakishimete | Yasuo Baba | Miho Nakayama, Yūji Oda, Tetsuya Bessho | — | |
| Only Yesterday | Isao Takahata | | — | Animated film |
| Penta no sora | Takashi Nagata | Norisuke Yamashita, Shino Ikenami, Keisuke Yaosaka | — | |
| The Princess and the Goblin | József Gémes | Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, Roy Kinnear, Sally Ann Marsh, Rik Mayall, Peggy Mount, Peter Murray, Victor Spinetti, Mollie Sugden, Frank Rozelaar Green, William Hootkins, Maxine Howe, Steve Lyons, Robin Lyons | Animated fantasy | British-Hungarian-Japanese-American-Danish co-production |
| Rainbow Kids | Kihachi Okamoto | Tanie Kitabayashi, Toru Kazama, Katsuyasu Uchida | Comedy | |
| Rhapsody in August | Akira Kurosawa | Richard Gere, Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka | Drama | |
| Roujin Z | Hiroyuki Kitakubo | | — | Animated film |
| A Scene at the Sea | Takeshi Kitano | Claude Maki, Hiroko Ohshima | Drama | |
| Shusho kusensen ijonashi | Shusuke Kaneko | Yūji Oda, Koji Matoba, Emi Wakui | — | |
| Strawberry Road | Koreyoshi Kurahara | Ken Matsudaira, Mako, Mariska Hargitay | — | |
| Taabo no ryugusei daitanken | Mikao Mitsuki | | — | Animated film |
| Tora-san Confesses | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 44th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series |
| Urusei Yatsura: Always, My Darling | Katsuhisa Yamada | | Comedy, romance, science fiction | Animated film |
| Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits | Keiichi Hara | | — | Animated film |
| Yumeji | Seijun Suzuki | Kenji Sawada | Drama | |
| Zeiram | Keita Amamiya | Yuko Moriyama, Yukijiro Hotaro, Kunihiko Iida | — | |