List of Japanese films of 1980

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Box-office ranking

Rank	Title	Director	Cast	Box office
1	Kagemusha	Akira Kurosawa	Tatsuya Nakadai	¥2.68 billion
2	Virus	Kinji Fukasaku	Masao Kusakari	¥2.37 billion
3	The Battle of Port Arthur	Toshio Masuda	Tatsuya Nakadai	¥1.79 billion
4	Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur	Hiroshi Fukutomi	Nobuyo Ōyama	¥1.55 billion
5	G.I. Samurai	Kōsei Saitō	Sonny Chiba	¥1.35 billion

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1980
Bara no Hyōteki
Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy	Masayuki Akehi	Fuyumi Shiraishi	Anime for Children
Denziman Movie			Sc-fi for Children
Disciples of Hippocrates	Kazuki Ōmori	Masato Furuoya
Foster Daddy, Tora!	Yoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi	Comedy	26th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
Gamera: Super Monster	Noriaki Yuasa	Mach Fumiake	Kaiju	Last Showa era Gamera film.
Kagemusha	Akira Kurosawa	Tatsuya Nakadai	Epic Samurai	Takashi Shimura's last film. Won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.
Kamen Rider: Eight Rider vs. Galaxy King			Sc-fi for Children
The Beast to Die
The Old Capital	Kon Ichikawa	Momoe Yamaguchi Tomokazu Miura	Drama
Onna no Hosomichi: Nureta Kaikyo	Kazunari Takeda	Miyako Yamaguchi, Megumi Ogawa, Kan Mikami	Erotic drama	^[1]
Rape Hunter Nerawareta Onna
Shogun Assassin
Tonda Couple	Shinji Sōmai	Hiroko Yakushimaru		Based on a Kodansha Manga Award-winning manga
Tora's Tropical Fever	Yoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi	Comedy	25th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
Twelve Months	Kimio Yabuki	Shinobu Otake, Ai Kanzaki, Tokuko Sugiyama	Animation
Virus	Kinji Fukasaku	Masao Kusakari, Sonny Chiba	Drama
Yūgure made	Kazuo Kuroki	Morio Kazama
Zigeunerweisen	Seijun Suzuki	Toshiya Fujita Yoshio Harada	Drama	Japan Academy Prize for Best Film