Japan Synopsis
“Your vision of the world will change forever.”
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Audience Engagement
1,173 audience reviews — more than 97% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (97th percentile) outruns trending popularity (81th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Blindness. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Drama + Mystery in Japan
208 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Mystery genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Blindness itself).
The 2007–2009 Japan Window
Blindness holds position #226 of 362 Japan films in the 2007–2009 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Blindness premiered alongside 124 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 1m runtime, production spent $207K per minute on screen and earned $164K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 124 other Japan films in 2008.
The 2069th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Blindness, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- blindness and impaired vision · 5
- leader · 4
- outbreak · 4
- asylum · 3
- uprising · 3
- doomsday · 2
- plague · 2
- eye specialist · 1
- society · 14
- epidemic · 7
- based on novel or book · 288
- fight · 60
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,068 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (33rd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.4 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #1,355 of 1,933 (top 70%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Brazil, Canada, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | Japanese, English |
| Production Companies | Rhombus Media, O2 Filmes, Bee Vine Pictures, Alliance Films, Agência Nacional do Cinema – ANCINE |
| Runtime | 2h 1m |
| Release Date | May 14, 2008 |
| IMDb | tt0861689 |
| Official Site | www.blindness-themovie.com |