List of Japanese films of 1991

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A list of films released in Japan in 1991 (see 1991 in film).

Japanese films released in 1991 Title  | Director  | Cast  | Genre  | Notes

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!<Ai·Oo> | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Kyohei Shibata, Kazukiyo Nishikiori, Kenji Otsuki | — | [1]
964 Pinocchio | Shozin Fukui |  | Science fiction | [citation needed]
Cho shojo REIKO | Takao Okawara | Arisa Mizuki, Ken Osawa, Wakako Shimazaki | — | [2]
Deer Friend | Yukihiro Sawada | Tomokazu Miura, Midori Kanazawa, Teppei Yamada | — | [1]
Denei shoujo | Ryu Kaneda | Ken Osawa, Kaori Sakagami, Hiromi Hamaguchi | — | [3]
Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights | Tsutomu Shibayama, Daikichiro Kusube |  | — | Animated film[1]
Domo Arigato |  |  | 3-D travelogue | [citation needed]
Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug |  |  |  | [citation needed]
Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge |  |  |  | [citation needed]
Eyecatch Junction | Takashi Miike | Lisa Tachibana, Hiroko Nakajima, Aiko Asano | — | Direct-to-video release[4]
Fushigi no umi no Nadia | Kaoru Umeno |  | — | Animated film[3]
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah | Kazuki Ōmori | Kosuke Toyohara, Anna Nakagawa, Megumi Odaka | — | [2][5]
Happy Wedding | Yoshimitsu Morita | Yoshiko Mita, Yuki Saito, Toshiaki Karasawa | — | [3]
Haroo Kiteii-Maho no mori Ohimesama | Hidemi Kubo |  | — | Animated film[2]
Hiruko the Goblin | Shinya Tsukamoto | Kenji Sawada, Masaki Kudo, Rin Miyama |  | [6]
Journey of Honor | Gordon Hessler | Sho Kosugi, David Essex, Toshiro Mifune | Jidai-geki | [7]
Kerokero Keroppi no sanjushi | Masami Hata |  | — | Animated film[3]
Lady Hunter | Takashi Miike | Yoshie Kashiwabara, Ko Murata, Naomi Morinaga | — | Direct-to-video release[4]
Manatsu no Chikyū | Osamu Murakami | Kikuchi Kenichirō [ja], Eri Fukatsu, Michitaka Tsutsui [ja] | Drama | [citation needed]
Misty | Toshiharu Ikeda | Toshiyuki Nagashima, Miho Tsumiki, Yoshie Ichige | — | [2]
Mobile Suit Gundam F91 | Yoshiyuki Tomino |  | Science fiction | Animated film[8]
My Sons | Yoji Yamada | Rentarō Mikuni, Masatoshi Nagase, Emi Wakui |  | [9]
My Soul Is Slashed | Shusuke Kaneko | Ken Ogata, Tatsuro Morimoto, Narumi Yasuda | Vampire | [3]
Nami no kazudake dakishimete | Yasuo Baba | Miho Nakayama, Yūji Oda, Tetsuya Bessho | — | [2]
Only Yesterday | Isao Takahata |  | — | Animated film[3]
Penta no sora | Takashi Nagata | Norisuke Yamashita, Shino Ikenami, Keisuke Yaosaka | — | [2]
The Princess and the Goblin | József Gémes | Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, Roy Kinnear, Sally Ann Marsh, Rik Mayall, Peggy Mount, Peter Murray, Victor Spinetti, Mollie Sugden, Frank Rozelaar Green, William Hootkins, Maxine Howe, Steve Lyons, Robin Lyons | Animated fantasy | British-Hungarian-Japanese-American-Danish co-production
Rainbow Kids | Kihachi Okamoto | Tanie Kitabayashi, Toru Kazama, Katsuyasu Uchida | Comedy | [1]
Rhapsody in August | Akira Kurosawa | Richard Gere, Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka | Drama | [10]
Roujin Z | Hiroyuki Kitakubo |  | — | Animated film[11][12]
A Scene at the Sea | Takeshi Kitano | Claude Maki, Hiroko Ohshima | Drama | [2]
Shusho kusensen ijonashi | Shusuke Kaneko | Yūji Oda, Koji Matoba, Emi Wakui | — | [3]
Strawberry Road | Koreyoshi Kurahara | Ken Matsudaira, Mako, Mariska Hargitay | — | [1]
Taabo no ryugusei daitanken | Mikao Mitsuki |  | — | Animated film[2]
Tora-san Confesses | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 44th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series[citation needed]
Urusei Yatsura: Always, My Darling | Katsuhisa Yamada |  | Comedy, romance, science fiction | Animated film[13][14]
Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits | Keiichi Hara |  | — | Animated film[1]
Yumeji | Seijun Suzuki | Kenji Sawada | Drama | [15]
Zeiram | Keita Amamiya | Yuko Moriyama, Yukijiro Hotaro, Kunihiko Iida | — | [16]

## See also

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* 1991 in Japan
* 1991 in Japanese television

## Footnotes

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1. ^ a b c d e f Galbraith IV 2008, p. 375.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Galbraith IV 2008, p. 377.
3. ^ a b c d e f g Galbraith IV 2008, p. 376.
4. ^ a b Mes 2006, p. 391.
5. ^ Galbraith IV 2008, p. 378.
6. ^ Mes 2005, p. 212.
7. ^ "Kabuto". 24 September 1992.
8. ^ Collar, Cammila. "Mobile Suit Gundam F91". AllMovie. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
9. ^ Crow, Jonathan. "Musuko". AllMovie. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
10. ^ Crow, Jonathan. "Rhapsody in August". AllMovie. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
11. ^ Beck, Jerry (October 28, 2005). The Animated Movie Guide. Chicago Review Press. pp. 235–6. ISBN 978-1-55652-591-9.
12. ^ Rayns, Tony (1994). "Rojin Z/Roujin Z". Sight & Sound. Vol. 4, no. 7\. London: British Film Institute. pp. 52–53.
13. ^ "madhouse.co.jp" (in Japanese). Madhouse. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
14. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Urusei Yatsura Movie 6: Always My Darling". AllMovie. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
15. ^ Crow, Jonathan. "Yumeji". AllMovie. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
16. ^ Galbraith IV 1996, p. 459.

### References

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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.
* Mes, Tom (2006). Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike. FAB Press. ISBN 1903254418.
* Mes, Tom (2005). Iron Man. The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto. Fab Press. ISBN 1-903254-35-3.

## External links

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* Japanese films of 1991 at the Internet Movie Database

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