List of Japanese films of 1987

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A list of films released in Japan in 1987 (see 1987 in film).

Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes

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Actress | Kon Ichikawa | Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuko Mori, Bunta Sugawara | — | [1]
Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle |  |  |  |
Eien no 1/2 | Kichitaro Negishi | Saburō Tokitō |  |
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On | Kazuo Hara |  |  |
Flashman: Big Rally! Titan Boy! |  |  |  |
Haikara-san ga Tōru | Masamichi Satō |  |  | Based on a manga
Maskman Movie |  |  |  |
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise | Hiroyuki Yamaga |  |
Saint Seiya: Legend of the Golden Apple |  |  |  | First of the Saint Seiya films.
Shinran: Path to Purity | Rentarō Mikuni |  |  | Won the Jury Prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival
Take me out to the Snowland | Yasuo Baba | Tomoyo Harada | Romantic comedy |
A Taxing Woman | Juzo Itami | Nobuko Miyamoto
Tsutomu Yamazaki | comedy | Japan Academy Prize for Best Film
Time of the Apes |  |  | Science fiction | Filmed in 1974
Tora-san Plays Daddy | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 39th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
Tora-san Goes North | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 38th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
Zegen | Shōhei Imamura | Mitsuko Baisho |  | Entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival

## See also

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* 1987 in Japan
* 1987 in Japanese television

## References

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### Footnotes

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1. ^ Galbraith IV 1996, p. 92.

### Sources

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* 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

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* Japanese films of 1987 at the Internet Movie Database

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