List of Japanese films of 1998

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A list of films released in Japan in 1998 (see 1998 in film).

1998 [edit]

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1998
A	Tatsuya Mori		Documentary	About Aum Shinrikyo cult
After Life	Hirokazu Koreeda		Drama Fantasy
*Andromedia*	Takashi Miike		Science fiction
April Story	Shunji Iwai	Takako Matsu, Tanabe Seiichi	Drama
Begging for Love	Hideyuki Hirayama	Mieko Harada		Japan Academy Prize for Best Film
The Bird People in China	Takashi Miike	Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Mako	Drama
*Blues Harp*	Takashi Miike	Mickey Curtis, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi	Crime
Crayon Shin-chan: Mission:1000bolts!! Pig's Hoof's secret mission!!
Detective Conan: The Fourteenth Target
Doraemon: Nobita's South Sea Adventure	Tsutomu Shibayama	Nobuyo Ōyama Noriko Ohara Michiko Nomura Kaneta Kimotsuki Kazuya Tatekabe Kaneta Kimotsuki	Adventure	Feature-length Doraemon film.
Dr. Akagi	Shōhei Imamura	Akira Emoto Kumiko Aso
Love & Pop	Hideaki Anno
Megaranger vs. Carranger
Moon Light Dinner	Yutaka Ikejima	Kanae Mizuhara Yumi Yoshiyuki	Pink	Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best New Actress - Pink Grand Prix
*Pokémon: The First Movie*	Kunihiko Yuyama
Rasen			Horror	Based on the Novel Spiral
Rebirth of Mothra III			Kaiju	*Last Heisei era Mothra film.
Ringu			Horror	Based on the Novel Ringu
Sada	Nobuhiko Obayashi			Entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival
The Story of PuPu	Kensaku Watanabe	Sakura Uehara, Reiko Matsuo	Road movie
Tokyo Eyes	Jean-Pierre Limosin			Screened at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival
Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna: Warriors of the Star of Light