Animated films set in Japan

2001 anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

1997 anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

1988 film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

2016 anime film directed by Makoto Shinkai

1988 anime film directed by Isao Takahata

is a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Mitsubishi, and distributed by Toho. The film stars Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kazushige Nagashima, Yūki Amami, George Tokoro, Rumi Hiiragi, Akiko Yano, Kazuko Yoshiyuki and Tomoko Naraoka. It is the eighth film Miyazaki directed for Studio Ghibli, and his tenth overall.

2019 animated film by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane

2013 film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Arrietty, titled in Japan and The Secret World of Arrietty in North America, is a 2010 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi as his feature film debut as a director, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and Wild Bunch. The screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, was based on the 1952 novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton, an English author of children's books, about a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of a typical household, borrowing items f

2002 anime film directed by Hiroyuki Morita

2018 film directed by Wes Anderson

1995 film by Mamoru Oshii

2007 anime film directed by Makoto Shinkai

2016 animated film directed by Travis Knight

1991 Japanese animated film directed by Isao Takahata

1995 anime film directed by Yoshifumi Kondō

2013 Japanese animated film directed by Isao Takahata

1994 animated film directed by Isao Takahata

1999 anime film directed by Isao Takahata

2006 anime film directed by Satoshi Kon

2011 film by Makoto Shinkai

2022 film

Japanese manga series

Japanese anime television series

2019 Japanese animated film directed by Tomohiko Itō

Japanese light novel series

Predator: Killer of Killers is a 2025 American adult animated science fiction action film directed by Dan Trachtenberg from a screenplay by Micho Robert Rutare, based on a story by Trachtenberg and Rutare. It is the sixth installment in the Predator film series and its first animated installment.

2007 anime film by Masahiro Ando

2000 film directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo

2016 film by Shinnosuke Yakuwa

is a 2021 Japanese animated musical film directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Science SARU. Based upon the novel Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh by Hideo Furukawa, the film is set in 14th century Japan and centers on the friendship between Inu-Oh, a dancer born with unique physical characteristics, and Tomona, a blind musician. Ostracized by society due to their physical differences, Inu-Oh and Tomona nonetheless utilize their artistic abilities to propel themselves to stardom.

2006 anime directed by Keiichi Sugiyama

2008 television film

2017 anime film directed by Kenji Kamiyama

2018 Japanese animated film

1989 film by Tsutomu Shibayama

2014 film by Mizuho Nishikubo

Japanese OVA

2017 animated film by Masaaki Yuasa

2009 anime film directed by Sunao Katabuchi

1959 film directed by Taiji Yabushita

1991 film by Hiroyuki Kitakubo

2009 film by Shinsuke Sato

2000 animated film

2024 American film

2006 anime short film directed by Kazuo Oga

2016 film by Kunihiko Yuyama

2011 film by Eric Khoo

2010 film by Kōji Masunari

2024 anime film directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama

2006 television film directed by Tad Stones

2023 Japanese animated movie

is a 2009 Japanese animated science fiction action film nearly singlehandedly written, designed, directed, and animated by manga author Atsuya Uki. Produced by Anime Innovation Tokyo and Aniplex, the film had its world premiere at Canada's Fantasia International Film Festival on July 28, 2009. The film made its Japanese debut on August 22, 2009 in Tokyo and Osaka. Cencoroll made its debut in the United States at the New York Anime Festival on September 25, 2009. A sequel, Cencoroll 2, was released on June 29, 2019, in a dual-screening featuring the first film as Cencoroll Connect. Another sequ

2022 anime film directed by Yoshiaki Kyogoku

2013 film directed by Ed Skudder and Zack Keller

2025 anime film directed by Junpei Mizusaki and Shinji Takagi

novel series by Tetsu Yano

1969 animated short film directed by Masaaki Ōsumi

2005 film by Kihachirō Kawamoto