This is a list of Japanese films that are scheduled to release in 2021.
Highest-grossing films The following is a list of the 10 highest-grossing Japanese films released at the Japanese box office during 2021. Rank Title Gross 1 Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time () 2 Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet () 3 Belle () 4 Arashi Anniversary Tour 5×20 Film: Record of Memories () 5 Tokyo Revengers () 6 Rurouni Kenshin: The Final () 7 The Untold Tale of the Three Kingdoms () 8 We Made a Beautiful Bouquet () 8 Masquerade Night () 10 My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission ()
Film releases January–March Opening Title Director CastJANUARY 1 Seitokai Yakuindomo 2 Hiromitsu Kanazawa Shintarō Asanuma, Yōko Hikasa, Satomi Satō, Sayuri Yahagi, Satomi Arai, Chiaki Omigawa, Yū Kobayashi, Asami Shimoda 8 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie -Part I- Chiaki Kon Kotono Mitsuishi, Hisako Kanemoto, Rina Satō, Ami Koshimizu, Shizuka Itō, Misato Fukuen, Kenji Nojima, Junko Minagawa, Sayaka Ohara, Ai Maeda, Yukiyo Fujii, Ryō Hirohashi, Taishi Murata, Shoko Nakagawa, Naomi Watanabe, Nanao Gintama: The Final Takashi Koizumi Tomokazu Sugita, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Rie Kugimiya, Mikako Takahashi, Akira Ishida, Takehito Koyasu Angry Rice Wives Katsuhide Motoki Mao Inoue, Takahiro Miura, Mari Natsuki, Shinosuke Tatekawa, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Sawa Suzuki Perfect Strangers Michio Mitsuno Noriyuki Higashiyama, Honami Suzuki, Takako Tokiwa, Toru Masuoka, Hiromasa Taguchi, Haruka Kinami 15 Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor Takahiro Omori, Hideaki Itō Hiroshi Kamiya, Kazuhiko Inoue, Kazuma Horie, Takaya Kuroda, Akemi Okamura, Chō, Takashi Matsuyama, Hiroshi Shimozaki, Hisako Kanemoto Over the Years: Lovers Gao Chen-di Kazunobu Mineta, Manami Hashimoto, Pipi Yao, Oscar Zhou, Yu Pei-Jen, Yu Hongxiu, Nahana 16Nezura 1964Hiroto YokokawaYukijirō Hotaru, Kazuma Yoneyama, Norman England, Ippei Osako, Yoshiro Uchida, Shirō Sano, Noboru Sato, Mai Saito, Mach Fumiake, Masanori Kikuzawa, Himawari Ono, Bin Furuya, Akira Ohashi 22 The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window Yukihiro Morigaki Masaki Okada, Jun Shison, Yurina Hirate, Kenichi Takitō, Michitaka Tsutsui, Makita Sports 29 The Master Plan Yūichi Satō Takanori Iwata, Mackenyu Arata, Anna Yamada, Anne Nakamura, Kenjirō Ishimaru, Kohei Otomo, Akira Emoto A Family Michihito Fujii Gō Ayano, Hiroshi Tachi, Machiko Ono, Yukiya Kitamura, Hayato Ichihara, Hayato Isomura We Made a Beautiful Bouquet Nobuhiro Doi Masaki Suda, Kasumi Arimura, Kaya Kiyohara, Kanata Hosoda, Hanae Kan, Haya Nakazaki, Hisato Kokubo, Kumi Takiuchi Photograph of Memories Naoto Kumazawa Mai Fukagawa, Kengo Kora, Karina Nose, Arata Iura, Ikko Furuya, Kazuko Yoshiyuki FEBRUARY 5 The Cinderella Addiction Ryohei Watanabe Tao Tsuchiya, Kei Tanaka, Coco, Anna Yamada, Teacher, Wako Ando, Miho Kanazawa, Atom Mizuishi, Yasuhi Nakamura, Bokuzo Masana Horimiya & Co. Hana Matsumoto Ouji Suzuka, Sayu Kubota, Haru Takagi, Jin Suzuki, Rion Okamoto, Akira Onodera, Aya Marsh, Sakura, Ryōsuke Sota Suicide Forest Village Takashi Shimizu Anna Yamada, Mayu Yamaguchi, Fuju Kamio, Yuki Kura, Haruka Kudo, Rinka Otani 11 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie -Part II- Chiaki Kon Kotono Mitsuishi, Hisako Kanemoto, Rina Satō, Ami Koshimizu, Shizuka Itō, Misato Fukuen, Kenji Nojima, Junko Minagawa, Sayaka Ohara, Ai Maeda, Yukiyo Fujii, Ryō Hirohashi, Taishi Murata, Shoko Nakagawa, Naomi Watanabe, Nanao Princess Principal: Crown Handler – Chapter 1 Masaki Tachibana Aoi Koga, Akira Sekine, Yō Taichi, Akari Kageyama, Nozomi Furuki, Takayuki Sugō, Miyuki Sawashiro, Takumi Yamazaki, Takaya Hashi, Yūko Iida 12 Under the Open Sky Miwa Nishikawa Kōji Yakusho, Taiga Nakano, Isao Hashizume, Yukiya Kitamura, Hakuryu, Midoriko Kimura, Masami Nagasawa First Love Yukihiko Tsutsumi Keiko Kitagawa, Tomoya Nakamura, Kyoko Yoshine, Itsuji Itao, Hoshi Ishida, Sho Kiyohara 19 Liar × Liar Saiji Yakumo Nana Mori, Hokuto Matsumura, Yuta Koseki, Mayu Hotta, Ryuya Shimekake, Shunya Itabashi In Those Days Rikiya Imaizumi Tori Matsuzaka, Taiga Nakano, Takashi Yamanaka, Ryuya Wakaba, Tateto Serizawa, Kentaro Kokado, Hiroto Oshita, Kenta Kiguchi The Pledge to Megumi Show Nobushi Natsuki Kasa, Daijiro Harada, Tomoko Ishimura, Gitan Ohtsuru, Masao Komatsu, Mineko Nishikawa 20 Mashin Sentai Kiramager THE MOVIE: Bee-Bop Dream Kyohei Yamaguchi Rio Komiya, Rui Kihara, Yume Shinjo, Atomu Mizuishi, Mio Kudo, Kohei Shoji, Daimaou Kosaka, Inori Minase, Mitsu Dan Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!Shojiro NakazawaKiita Komagine, Shintarō Asanuma, Yuki Kaji, Yume Miyamoto, Takuya Sato 26 Aristocrats Yukiko Sode Mugi Kadowaki, Kiko Mizuhara, Kengo Kora, Shizuka Ishibashi, Rio Yamashita, Kenta Satoi, Yukiko Shinohara, Kei Ishibashi, Takashi Yamanaka, Ryoka Minamide Under the Turquoise Sky Kentaro Yuya Yagira, Sahel Rosa, Akaji Maro, Jun Nishiyama, Taro Suwa, Nori Sato MARCH 5 The Sun Stands Still Eiichirō Hasumi Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ryoma Takeuchi, Han Hyo-joo, Byun Yo-han, Hayato Ichihara, Sara Minami, Kōichi Satō, Arisa Yagi Aria the Crepusculo Junichi Sato, Takahiro Natori Ryō Hirohashi, Rina Satō, Ai Kayano, Akeno Watanabe, Erino Hazuki, Sayaka Ohara No Call No Life Aya Igashi Mio Yūki, Yuki Inoue, Atsuhiro Inukai, Sakurako Konishi, Aina Yamada, Kita Komagine, Atsushi Shinohara, Rikuto Kumaki 8 Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time Hideaki Anno Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yūko Miyamura, Maaya Sakamoto, Kotono Mitsuishi 12 Brave: Gunjō Senki Katsuyuki Motohiro Mackenyu, Haruma Miura, Hirona Yamazaki, Kenichi Matsuyama, Tatsuomi Hamada, Jin Suzuki, Shodai Fukuyama, Takuro Nagata Love, Life and Goldfish Yukinori Makabe Onoe Matsuya II, Kanako Momota, Hayato Kakizawa, Nichole Ishida, Hiroshi Yazaki, Hitoe Okubo, Misato Shimizu, Mizuki Tsujimoto 19 Healin' Good Pretty Cure: GoGo! Big Transformation! The Town of Dreams Akira Ikeda Aoi Yūki, Natsu Yorita, Hiyori Kono, Suzuko Mimori, Ai Kakuma, Hana Takeda Tropical-Rouge! Precure: Petite Dive! Collaboration Dance Party! Takashi Otsuka Ai Fairouz, Yumiri Hanamori, Yui Ishikawa, Asami Seto, Rina Hidaka, Aimi Tanaka Caution, Hazardous Wives! Tōya Satō Haruka Ayase, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kosuke Suzuki, Kenshi Okada, Atsuko Maeda, Shingo Tsurumi, Naomasa Musaka, Shirō Sano You're Not Normal, Either Kōji Maeda Ryo Narita, Kaya Kiyohara, Kasumi Yamaya, Yuki Kura, Rika Izumi, Kotaro Koizumi 26 Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction Daihachi Yoshida Yo Oizumi, Mayu Matsuoka, Kōichi Sato, Elaiza Ikeda, Hio Miyazawa, Takumi Saitoh, Tomoya Nakamura The Blue Danube Akira Ikeda Kou Maehara, Hiroki Konno, Hiroki Nakajima, Naoya Shimizu, Manami Hashimoto, Tarō Yabe, Kyūsaku Shimada, Hairi Katagiri Zero-One Others: Kamen Rider MetsubouJinraiMasaya KakehiDaisuke Nakagawa, Syuya Sunagawa, Daichi Yamaguchi, Satsuki Nakayama, Noa Tsurushima, Jai West
April–June