The Best Atsuro Watabe Movies, Ranked
32 credits from 1992 to 2025, ranked by the Movie Echo Score — a blend of critic reviews, audience ratings and lasting impact. The biggest box office hit is Rookies the Movie: Graduation (2009) with $88.1M worldwide. Below: the best films by genre and by decade, the most awarded and the newest releases.
Biggest Atsuro Watabe Box Office Hits
Atsuro Watabe's films have made $191M worldwide in total. Rookies the Movie: Graduation (2009) is the biggest hit at $88.1M, ahead of Masquerade Hotel (2019) ($40.4M). Lifetime grosses, with each film's domestic share.
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Rookies the Movie: Graduation 2009 · Drama $88.1M - 2
Masquerade Hotel 2019 · Mystery $40.4M - 3
Masquerade Night 2021 · Crime $32.3M - 4
Peak: The Rescuers 2011 · Drama $18.5M - 5
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva 2009 · Animation $6.14M - 6
Lupin’s Daughter: The Movie 2021 · Romance $2.91M - 7
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac 2010 · Drama $1.66M - 8
Death Water 2006 · Mystery $513K - 9
Swallowtail Butterfly 1996 · Crime $148K
The Best Atsuro Watabe Movie in Every Genre
The best-rated film in each genre Atsuro Watabe has worked in, the genres with the most films first. Drama leads with 14 films, and Rookies the Movie: Graduation (2009) is the pick of them.
- Drama 14 films Rookies the Movie: Graduation 2009 · as Makoto Yoshida
- Crime 5 films Masquerade Night 2021 · as Tatsuo Inagaki
- Mystery 5 films Masquerade Hotel 2019 · as Tatsuo Inagaki
- Romance 3 films Lupin’s Daughter: The Movie 2021 · as Takeru Mikumo
- Animation 1 film Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva 2009 · as Jean Descole (voice)
The Best Atsuro Watabe Movie of Each Decade
One pick per decade of Atsuro Watabe's career, newest decade first: the best-rated film of each ten years, from 1990s to 2020s.
The Latest Atsuro Watabe Movies
The most recent films Atsuro Watabe is credited on, newest first — starting with Happy Kanako’s Killer Life (2025). Open any of them for the cast, ratings, box office and where to watch.
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Happy Kanako’s Killer Life 2025 · Drama - Lupin’s Daughter: The Movie 2021 · Takeru Mikumo
- Masquerade Night 2021 · Tatsuo Inagaki
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Avalanche 2021 · Kengo Oyama - Masquerade Hotel 2019 · Tatsuo Inagaki
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Signal 2018 · Shinnosuke Nakamoto -
Inspector Zenigata 2017 · Takahiro Abe -
Love Exposure: The TV-Show 2017 · Tetsu Tsunoda -
ST: Aka to Shiro no Sôsa File the Movie 2015 · Toshiro Saegusa -
Bitter Blood 2014 · Akimura Shimao -
Koi 2013 · Mitsuhiko Torikai -
Detective in the Bar 2 2013 · Koichiro Tochiwaki
The Best Atsuro Watabe Movies: Questions & Answers
The best-rated, highest-grossing, most awarded and newest Atsuro Watabe films, answered from the rankings on this page.
What is the highest-grossing Atsuro Watabe movie?
Rookies the Movie: Graduation (2009) made the most at the box office, with $88.1M worldwide, followed by Masquerade Hotel (2019) with $40.4M. Together, Atsuro Watabe's films with box office figures have made $191M.
What is the best Atsuro Watabe drama movie?
Rookies the Movie: Graduation (2009) is the best-rated of Atsuro Watabe's drama films. In other genres: Masquerade Night (crime), Masquerade Hotel (mystery) and Lupin’s Daughter: The Movie (romance).
What is the newest Atsuro Watabe movie?
The newest film on Atsuro Watabe's filmography is Happy Kanako’s Killer Life (2025).
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