| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 2LDK | | | | |
| Abaranger Deluxe | | | | |
| Adulterous Wife's Dirty Afternoon | Yutaka Ikejima | Motoko Sasaki | Pink | Silver Prize & Best Actress, Pink Grand Prix |
| Ambiguous | Toshiya Ueno | Hidehisa Ebata, Noriko Murayama, Nikki Sasaki, Minami Aoyama, Akio Kurauchi, Yôta Kawase, Suzuka Takaki, Mika Ogawa | Pink | Best Film, Pink Grand Prix |
| The Animatrix | Koji Morimoto | Hedy Burress, James Arnold Taylor | Action, Sci-fi | |
| The Blue Light | Yukio Ninagawa | Kazunari Ninomiya, Aya Matsuura, Anne Suzuki, Kumiko Akiyoshi | Drama, crime, romance | - |
| Azumi | Ryuhei Kitamura | Aya Ueto | Action, Samurai film | |
| Battle Royale 2: Requiem | | | | |
| Battlefield Baseball | Yūdai Yamaguchi | | Comedy | |
| Bright Future | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | | | Entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival |
| Café Lumière | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano | Drama | |
| Children Full of Life | Noboru Kaetsu | | Documentary | Won the Banff World Media Festival Rocky Award in 2004 |
| Chirusoku no natsu | Kiyoshi Sasabe | | | |
| Crayon Shin-chan: Glorious Grilled Meat Road | | | | |
| Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital | | | | |
| Doppelganger | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Kōji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku | Thriller | |
| Dragon Head | Jōji Iida | Satoshi Tsumabuki, Sayaka Kanda | Disaster film | |
| The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai | Mitsuru Meike | Emi Kuroda | Pink | |
| Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. | | | | |
| Gozu | Takashi Miike | | Horror | |
| Inuyasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler | | | | |
| Ju-on: The Grudge | Takashi Shimizu | Megumi Okina | Horror | Re-make of Ju-on 1 |
| Ju-on: The Grudge 2 | Takashi Shimizu | Noriko Sakai | Horror | Re-make of Ju-on 2 |
| Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost | | | | |
| A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn | Daisuke Gotō | Horyu Nakamura, Ryoko Asagi | Pink | |
| One Piece the Movie: Dead End Adventure | | Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Hirata, Ikue Ōtani, Yuriko Yamaguchi | | |
| Onmyoji II | | | | |
| Owl | Kaneto Shindo | | | Entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Poketto Monsutā Adobansu Jenerēshon The Wishing Star of Seven Nights Jirāchi | | | | |
| Shara | Naomi Kawase | | | Entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival |
| Tokyo Godfathers | Satoshi Kon | | Comedy drama anime | |
| Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle | | Kaori Sakagami, Hidekazu Ichinose | | |
| Watashi no Grandpa | | | | |
| When the Last Sword Is Drawn | Yōjirō Takita | Kiichi Nakai | | Japan Academy Prize for Best Film |
| Winning Pass | Kenichi Matsuyama | | Basketball drama | |
| Zatōichi | Takeshi Kitano | Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano | Samurai Geisha Swordsman drama | |