List of Japanese films of 2009
A list of films produced in Japan in 2009 :
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref |
| 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Toshiaki Karasawa, Etsushi Toyokawa, Takako Tokiwa, Airi Taira | Science fiction, Mystery | Based on a manga | ||
| 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Toshiaki Karasawa, Etsushi Toyokawa, Takako Tokiwa, Airi Taira | Science fiction, Mystery | Based on a manga | ||
| Air Doll | Hirokazu Koreeda | Bae Doona, Arata, Itsuji Itao | Drama | Competed at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| ' | Hiroshi Nishitani | Yūji Oda, Yūki Amami, Erika Toda | Mystery | |||
| April Bride | Ryuichi Hiroki | Nana Eikura, Eita | Drama | |||
| Arceus Chōkoku no Jikū e | Kunihiko Yuyama | Rica Matsumoto, Megumi Toyoguchi, Yūji Ueda | Anime | |||
| Asahiyama Zoo Story- Penguins in the Sky | Masahiko Makino | Nishida Toshiyuki, Nakamura Osamu Sun, Maeda Megumi, Takashi Sasano, etc. | Drama | Based on real events | ||
| Beauty | Toshio Gotō | Takataro Kataoka, Ainosuke Kataoka, Kumiko Asō | Drama | Entered into the 31st Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| ' | Osamu Kaneda | Dori Sakurada, Takuya Mizoguchi, Ruka Sawaki | Tokusatsu | |||
| Crows Zero 2 | Takashi Miike | Shun Oguri, Shunsuke Daitō, Suzunosuke Tanaka | Action | |||
| Engine Sentai Go-onger vs. Gekiranger | Satoshi Morota | Yasuhisa Furuhara, Shinwa Kataoka, Rina Aizawa, Masahiro Usui, Kenji Ebisawa, Akiko Nakagawa, Hidenori Tokuyama, Yumi Sugimoto, Nao Oikawa, Hiroki Suzuki, Mina Fukui, Manpei Takagi, Riki Miura, Sotaro, Hirofumi Araki, Yuka Hirata, Naoki Kawano, Kazue Itoh | Tokusatsu | |||
| ' | Hideaki Anno | Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yuko Miyamura | Anime | |||
| Goemon | Kazuaki Kiriya | Yōsuke Eguchi, Takao Osawa, Ryōko Hirosue | Action | |||
| ' | Tōya Satō | Yukie Nakama, Kazuya Kamenashi, Katsuhisa Namase, Yuya Takaki, Yuta Tamamori, Shun Oguri | Drama | |||
| Hotel Chelsea | Jorge Valdés-Iga | Nao Nagasawa, Justin Morck, Hiro Masuda, Sawa Suzuki, Anthony Laurent | Thriller | |||
| I Give My First Love to You | Takehiko Shinjo | Mitsuru Komiyama, Mika Nakamura, Hiroyasu Murakami, Fumihiro Hirai, Fumihiro Hirai | Drama | Based on a manga | ||
| Kaiji | Tōya Satō | Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yūki Amami | Drama | Based on a manga | ||
| ' | Osamu Kaneda | Masahiro Inoue, Ryouta Murai, Kanna Mori | Tokusatsu | |||
| ' | Ryuta Tasaki | Renn Kiriyama, Masaki Suda, Hikaru Yamamoto | Tokusatsu | |||
| Kamui Gaiden | Yōichi Sai | Ken'ichi Maysuyama, Koyuki | Action | - | ||
| Kuhio taisa | Daihachi Yoshida | Masato Sakai, Sakura Ando | Drama | |||
| ' | Koichi Sakamoto | Susumu Kurobe, Kohji Moritsugu, Shunji Igarashi | Tokusatsu | |||
| Mt. Tsurugidake | Daisaku Kimura | Tadanobu Asano, Teruyuki Kagawa, Aoi Miyazaki | Drama | |||
| ' | Masahiko Murata | Junko Takeuchi, Kazuhiko Inoue, Satoshi Hino | Anime | |||
| Pride | Shusuke Kaneko | Stephanie | Drama | Based on a manga | ||
| Saikin-rettou | Kenji Murakami | Naoto Takenaka | Comedy | |||
| Samurai Princess | Kengo Kaji | Aino Kishi, Dai Mizuno | Gore film | |||
| Shōjirō Nakazawa | Tori Matsuzaka, Hiroki Aiba, Rin Takanashi | Tokusatsu | ||||
| Soul Red | ||||||
| The Shock Labyrinth 3D | Takashi Shimizu | Yūya Yagira, Misako Renbutsu, Ryo Katsuji | Horror | |||
| Snow Prince | Joji Matsuoka | Shintaro Morimoto, Tadanobu Asano, Teruyuki Kagawa, Rei Dan, Katsuo Nakamura, Maiko, Gaku Yamamoto, Keiko Kishi | Drama | Based on a Classic Story | ||
| Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann the Movie: Spiral Stone Chapter | Hiroyuki Imaishi | Anime | ||||
| Tenshi no Koi | Yuri Kanchiku | Nozomi Sasaki Shosuke Tanihara | Romance | Based on a cell phone novel | ||
| Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl | Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Yukie Kawamura, Eri Otoguro | Horror | Based on a manga | ||
| Yatterman | Takashi Miike | Sho Sakurai, Saki Fukuda, Kyoko Fukada | Action | |||
| Yona Yona Penguin | Rintaro | Anime | ||||
| 10 January | Zen | Banmei Takahashi | Kankuro Nakamura, Yuki Uchida | Historical |