This is a list of Japanese films that were first released in 2023.
Highest-grossing films Worldwide The following is a list of the top five highest-grossing Japanese films released at the worldwide box office during 2023.
Rank Title Gross 1 The Boy and the Heron $294,200,0002Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine $121,456,7063 Godzilla Minus One $115,857,4134 Kingdom 3: The Flame of Destiny $36,259,5225 Don't Call it Mystery$32,488,540
Japan The following is a list of the 10 highest-grossing Japanese films released at the Japanese box office during 2023.
Rank Title Gross 1 The First Slam Dunk () 2 Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine () 3The Boy and the Heron () 4 Kingdom 3: The Flame of Destiny () 5 Godzilla Minus One () 6 Don't Call It Mystery () 7 Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room – The Movie () 8 Doraemon: Nobita's Sky Utopia ()9 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village () 10 Idolish7: Live 4bit – Beyond the Period ()
Box office records
The anime films Suzume and The First Slam Dunk set several box office records upon their international debut in 2023. In South Korea, The First Slam Dunk became the highest-grossing anime film, before its record was surpassed by Suzume. In China, Suzume became the highest-grossing anime film. It also set the record for the biggest opening for an anime film in China, before its record was surpassed by The First Slam Dunk. The First Slam Dunk also set Chinese box office records for the highest pre-sales for an animated import, and the largest IMAX opening weekend for a foreign animated film. Godzilla Minus One set notable box office records. Godzilla Minus One became the highest-grossing Japanese Godzilla film at the global box office. In the United States, the film earned the highest-grossing live-action Japanese film (surpassing Milo and Otis), it holds the box office record for the highest-grossing Japanese-language movie, and surpassed Bong Joon-ho's Parasite (2019) as the third highest-grossing foreign-language film of all time.
Released films January–March Opening Title Director Cast JANUARY6 Familia Izuru Narushima Koji Yakusho, Ryo Yoshizawa, Lucas Sagae, Fadile Waked, Miyavi, Yutaka Matsushige, Kōichi Satō We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams Masaharu Take Kiichi Nakai, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Shōta Yasuda, Tomochika, Aoi Morikawa, Takeshi Masu, Takashi Sasano Trapped Balloon Hiroyuki Miyagawa Masahiro Higashide, Tōko Miura, Kaoru Kobayashi, Miyoko Asada Thorns of Beauty Hideo Jojo Honoka Matsumoto, Tina Tamashiro, Keisuke Watanabe, Ayumu Nakajima, Miyu Kitamuki, Oolonga Yoshida 13 Ichikei's Crow: The Movie Akira Tanaka Yutaka Takenouchi, Haru Kuroki, Takumi Saitoh, Osamu Mukai Natchan's Little Secret Yasujirō Tanaka Kenichi Takitō, Shu Watanabe, Tomoya Maeno, Chieko Matsubara And So I'm at a Loss Daisuke Miura Taisuke Fujigaya, Atsuko Maeda, Akiyoshi Nakao, Mieko Harada, Etsushi Toyokawa Angry Son Kashō Iizuka Kazuki Horike, Gow, Masafumi Shinohara, Tomoka Murayama, Nobuhiro Morishita20 Bad City Kensuke Sonomura Hitoshi Ozawa, Akane Sakanoue, Katsuya, Masanori Mimoto, Lily Franky, Rino KataseMaku wo Orosuna! Junji Shimizu Yūki Koshioka, Mio Kudo, Yoshitaka Hara, Sho Takada, Ryuta Muro, Otsuki Toma 27 The Legend and Butterfly Keishi Ōtomo Takuya Kimura, Haruka Ayase, Hideaki Itō, Miki Nakatani, Hio Miyazawa, Ichikawa Somegorō VIII, Takuma Otoo, Takumi Saitoh, Kin'ya Kitaōji, Tsutomu Takahashi, Hirotarō Honda, Toshinori Omi Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom Kotono Watanabe Kento Kaku, Minami Hamabe, Hiroshi Kamiya, Miyuki Sawashiro, Subaru Kimura, Keiko Toda The Lump in My Heart Shingo Matsumura Mizuki Yoshida, Takako Tokiwa, Daiken Okudaira, Atsuko Maeda, Himi Satō, Rii Ishihara, Masaki Miura Lupin III vs Cat's EyeKobun Shizuno, Hiroyuki SeshitaKanichi Kurita, Akio Ōtsuka, Daisuke Namikawa, Miyuki Sawashiro, Koichi Yamadera, Keiko Toda, Rika Fukami, Chika Sakamoto, Yoshito Yasuhara, Mugihito, Takayuki Sugō, Hiroki TōchiFEBRUARY3 Baian the Assassin, M.D. Shunsaku Kawake Etsushi Toyokawa, Kataoka Ainosuke VI, Miho Kanno, Yūki Amami Scroll Yasuhiko Shimizu Takumi Kitamura, Taishi Nakagawa, Mayu Matsuoka, Kotone Furukawa Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village Haruo Sotozaki Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kitō, Hiro Shimono, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Katsuyuki Konishi, Ryōta Ōsaka, Miyuki Sawashiro, Kengo Kawanishi, Kana Hanazawa, Toshihiko Seki, Ryōtarō Okiayu, Mamoru Miyano, Akira Ishida 10 Egoist Daishi Matsunaga Ryohei Suzuki, Hio Miyazawa, Sawako Agawa, Yūko Nakamura, Iori Wada #Manhole Kazuyoshi Kumakiri Yuto Nakajima, Nao, Kento Nagayama Revice Forward: Kamen Rider Live & Evil & Demons Koichi Sakamoto Wataru Hyuga, Junya Komatsu, Ryosuke Takahashi, Rin Serizawa, You Imari, Hayate Kajiwara Sin Clock Kenji Maki Yōsuke Kubozuka, Ryōtarō Sakaguchi, Yō Aoi, Manami Hashimoto 17 Blue Giant Yuzuru Tachikawa Yuki Yamada, Shotaro Mamiya, Amane Okayama Shylock's Children Katsuhide Motoki Sadao Abe, Aya Ueto, Yuta Tamamori, Akira Emoto, Isao Hashizume, Kuranosuke Sasaki Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation Days Shinji Ishihira Soma Saito, Yusuke Shirai, Yuta Tamamori, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Yūki Ono 23 Yudō Masayuki Suzuki Toma Ikuta, Gaku Hamada, Kanna Hashimoto Call Me Chihiro Rikiya Imaizumi Kasumi Arimura, Hana Toyoshima, Tetta Shimada, Van, Miwako Ichikawa, Ryuya Wakaba, Yui Sakuma, Lily Franky, Jun Fubuki Sayonara, Girls. Shun Nakagawa Yuumi Kawai, Rina Ono, Rina Komiyama, Tomo Nakai, Airu Kubozuka, Himi Satō, Takuma Usa, Kisetsu Fujiwara Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey to Beyond Masayoshi Takesue Hiroki Mastumoto, Yuka Murayama, Nobunaga Daichi, Sae Miyazawa, Masaya Kikawada, Kayano Nakamura 24 Red Shoes Toshirō Saiga Aya Asahina, Hayato Ichihara, Nozomi Sasaki MARCH3 And Yet, You Are So Sweet Takehiko Shinjō Kyōhei Takahashi, Mei Hata, Rihito Itagaki, Riko Doraemon: Nobita's Sky Utopia Takumi Dōyama Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Ōhara, Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Tomokazu Seki, Ren Nagase10 In Her Room Chihiro Itō Satoru Iguchi, Fumika Baba, Yuumi Kawai Eternal New Mornings Tōru Yamamoto Nanami Sakuraba, Yukiya Kitamura, Sae Aoyama Winny Yūsaku Matsumoto Masahiro Higashide, Takahiro Miura, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Yō Yoshida 17 As Long as We Both Shall Live Ayuko Tsukahara Ren Meguro, Mio Imada, Tsutomu Takahashi, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Akari Takaishi, Ryoko Kobayashi Downfall Naoto Takenaka Takumi Saitoh, Shuri, Megumi, Rio Yamashita, Kazunari Tosa, Takashi Nagazumi Shin Kamen Rider Hideaki Anno Sosuke Ikematsu, Minami Hamabe, Tasuku Emoto, Nanase Nishino, Shinya Tsukamoto, Tōru Tezuka, Matsuo Suzuki, Mirai Moriyama 18Kumo to Saru no KazokuYoshiya NagasawaShōhei Uno, Eri Tokunaga, Shima Tabata, Tōru Nakamura, Kayoko Shiraishi, Eiji Okuda Single8 Kazuya Konaka Yu Uemura, Akari Takaishi, Noa Fukuzawa, Ryuta Kuwayama, Narimi Arimori24 Brats, Be Ambitious! Shin Adachi Yukiya Ikegawa, Hikaru Tashiro, Kanade Iwata Gridman Universe Akira Amemiya Hikaru Midorikawa, Yuya Hirose, Yume Miyamoto, Soma Saito, Junya Enoki, Shion Wakayama, Yuichiro Umehara, Chika Anzai Do Unto Others Tetsu Maeda Kenichi Matsuyama, Masami Nagasawa, Akira Emoto, Ouji Suzuka, Maki Sakai, Yumiko Fujita Baby Assassins: 2 Babies Yugo Sakamoto Akari Takaishi, Saori Izawa, Atomu Mizuishi, Joey Iwanaga, Tatsuomi Hamada 31 Nemesis: The Movie Yu Irie Suzu Hirose, Sho Sakurai, Yōsuke Eguchi, Kōichi Satō Rakudai Majo Takayuki Hamana Honoka Inoue, Mutsumi Tamura, Manaka Iwami, Kensho Ono, Ayane Sakura Goldfish Shin'ichi Fujinuma Masatoshi Nagase, Yukiya Kitamura, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Kō Machida, Narimi Arimori
April–June