The following is a list of 2004 box office number-one films in Japan. When the number-one film in gross is not the same as the number-one film in admissions, both are listed.
Number-one films †This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. # Date Film Gross Notes 1 Finding Nemo 2 The Last Samurai 3 4 5 6 7 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey 15 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 16 Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky 17 The Haunted Mansion 18 19 Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World 20 21 Troy 22May 30, 2004US$4 million23June 6, 2004The Day After TomorrowUS$10 million24June 13, 2004US$5 million25June 20, 2004US$3 million26July 4, 2004Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanUS$11.5 million27July 11, 2004Spider-Man 2US$10 million28July 18, 2004Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanUS$6 million29July 25, 2004US$4 million30August 1, 2004US$4 million31August 8, 2004US$2.5 million32August 15, 2004US$3.7 million33August 21, 2004Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of SnowUS$3.2 million34August 29, 2004House of Flying DaggersUS$3.6 million35September 5, 2004Van HelsingUS$5.7 million36September 12, 2004Resident Evil: ApocalypseUS$5.9 million37September 19, 2004I, RobotUS$6.6 million38September 26, 2004US$3.1 million39October 3, 2004US$2.4 million40October 10, 2004US$2.2 million41October 17, 2004US$1.3 million42October 24, 2004Secret WindowUS$1.4 million43October 31, 2004CollateralUS$3.9 million44November 7, 2004Be with YouUS$2.7 million45November 14, 2004US$3.3 million46November 21, 2004Howl's Moving Castle †US$14 million47November 28, 2004US$11.7 million48December 5, 2004US$9.8 million49December 12, 2004US$9.2 million
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