List of Japanese films of 1988

A list of films released in Japan in 1988 (see 1988 in film).

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
A Chaos of Flowers
Akira	Katsuhiro Otomo		Science fiction	Animated film^[1]^[2]
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad	Eriko Watanabe Tetsuya Nakashima Takahito Hara Yukihiko Tsutsumi	Narumi Yasuda, Haruko Sagara
The Discarnates	Nobuhiko Obayashi			Entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival
Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure
Guinea Pig: Android of Notre Dame			Horror
Guinea Pig: Mermaid in a Manhole^[3]			Horror	Part of the Guinea Pig films series; Direct-to-video
Esper Mami: Hoshizora no Dancing Doll^[4]			Magical girl, family, drama
Grave of the Fireflies	Isao Takahata		—	Animated feature^[5]^[6]
Hare Tokidoki Buta	Toshio Hirata		family, comedy
Hope and Pain	Yoji Yamada			Entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival
Kamen Rider Black: Hurry to Evil Island
Kamen Rider Black: Fear! Evil Monster Mansion
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack	Yoshiyuki Tomino	Toru Furuya	Science fiction
My Neighbor Totoro	Hayao Miyazaki		—	Animated feature^[6]
Rock yo shizukani nagareyo	Shunichi Nagasaki	Kenichi Okamoto, Shoji Narita, Kazuya Takahashi, koyo Maeda	Coming-of-age story	^[5]
Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods
Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth
The Silk Road	Junya Sato	Toshiyuki Nishida, Koichi Sato, Anna Nakagawa	—	^[7]
Sukeban Deka the Movie 2: Counter-Attack from the Kazama Sisters	Hideo Tanaka	Yui Asaka, Yuka Onishi, Yuma Nakamura
Tatakae!! Ramenman the Movie
A Taxing Woman's Return	Juzo Itami	Nobuko Miyamoto, Rentarō Mikuni, Toru Masuoka	—	^[8]
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial	Yoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi	Comedy	40th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
Wuthering Heights	Yoshishige Yoshida			Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
Urusei Yatsura Movie 5 – The Final Chapter	Osamu Dezaki		—	Animated feature^[5]
Yojo no jidai

References

Footnotes

^ Galbraith IV 1996, p. 96.
^ Erickson, Hal. "Akira". AllMovie. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
^ ザ・ギニーピッグマンホールの中の人魚(1988). Allcinema.net (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
^ Justin Sevakis (24 June 2014). "ESPer Mami: Hoshizora no Dancing Doll". Anime News Network. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c Galbraith IV 2008, p. 359.
^ ^a ^b Galbraith IV 2008, p. 360.
^ Galbraith IV 2008, p. 361.
^ Galbraith IV 2008, p. 358.

Sources

Galbraith IV, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography: 1900 through 1994. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0032-3.
Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.

External links

Japanese films of 1988 at the Internet Movie Database

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV199696-1] Galbraith IV 1996, p. 96.

[2] Erickson, Hal. "Akira". AllMovie. Retrieved 28 November 2016.

[3] ザ・ギニーピッグマンホールの中の人魚(1988). Allcinema.net (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2011-11-01.

[4] Justin Sevakis (24 June 2014). "ESPer Mami: Hoshizora no Dancing Doll". Anime News Network. Retrieved 28 June 2014.

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008359-5] Galbraith IV 2008, p. 359.

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008360-6] Galbraith IV 2008, p. 360.

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008361-7] Galbraith IV 2008, p. 361.

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008358-8] Galbraith IV 2008, p. 358.

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