| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1990 |
| A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha | Juzo Itami | Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Okochi | Comedy | |
| Boiling Point | Takeshi Kitano | Beat Kateshi | Thriller | |
| Childhood Days | Masahiro Shinoda | Yuji Horioka
Tetsuya Fujita | Drama | Japan Academy Prize for Best Film |
| Chinpui-Eri-sama katudo daisasshin | Mitusro Hongo | | | Animated film |
| Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest | | | | |
| Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might | | | | |
| Dreams | Akira Kurosawa | Mitsuko Baisho, Toshihiko Nakano, Akira Terao | Drama, fantasy | |
| Guinea Pig: Devil Woman Doctor | | | Horror | |
| Heaven and Earth | Kadokawa Haruki | | | aka "Ten to chi to" |
| Hon Kon paradaisu | Shusuke Kaneko | Yuki Saito, Kaoru Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Osawa | — | |
| Maroko | Mamoru Oshii | Masako Katsuki, Toshio Furukawa, Kenichi Ogata | Comedy, drama, science fiction | |
| Graveyard Shift | Ralph S. Singleton | David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht, Brad Dourif | Horror | |
| Memphis Belle | Michael Caton-Jones | Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Sean Astin, Harry Connick Jr., Reed Diamond, Tate Donovan, John Lithgow, D. B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, Courtney Gains, Neil Giuntoli, Jane Horrocks, Mac McDonald | War, drama | British-Japanese-American co-production |
| Mr. Redei-Yoakeno Shinderera | Masaharu Segawa | Tsurutaro Kataoka, Akira Onodera, Mari Yagizawa | Comedy | |
| Nobita and the Animal Planet | Tsutomu Shibayama, Daikichiro Kusube | | | |
| The Rescuers Down Under | Hendel Butoy, Mike Gabriel | Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy, Adam Ryen, George C. Scott, Tristan Rogers | Animated adventure | |
| Reversal of Fortune | Barbet Schroeder | Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver | Drama | American-Japanese-British co-production |
| Roar of the Crowd | Yutaka Osawa | Tomokazu Miura, Misako Tanaka, Yasufumi Hayashi | — | |
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| Shirokumakun, dokoe? | Shinya Sadamitsu | | — | |
| The Sting of Death | Kōhei Oguri | | | Won two awards at Cannes |
| Tasmania Story | Yasuo Furuhata | Kunie Tanaka, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Jinpachi Nezu | — | |
| Tekken | Junji Sakamoto | Takeshi Yamato, Bunta Sugawara | Drama | |
| Tora-san Takes a Vacation | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 43rd in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series |
| Uchū no hōsoku | Kazuyuki Izutsu | Masato Furuoya | | |
| Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars | Akio Jissoji | Masami Horiuchi, Hiroshi Tsuburaya | Kaiju |
| White Wolf | Yosei Maeda | | Animated films |
| The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz | Soji Yoshikawa | Mariko Kouda, Ai Sato | | |
| ZIPANG | Kaizo Hayashi | Masahiro Takashima, Narumi Yasuda, Haruko Wanibuchi | Fantasy adventure, comedy | |
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