Japan Synopsis
３－４Ｘ１０月
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Boiling Point. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Bandai Visual
Crime + Comedy in Japan
92 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Crime and Comedy genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Boiling Point itself).
The 1989–1991 Japan Window
Boiling Point holds position #42 of 114 Japan films in the 1989–1991 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1990s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in Japan, 447 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Boiling Point premiered alongside 32 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 32 other Japan films in 1990.
The 828th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
183 audience reviews — more than 85% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (85th percentile) outruns trending popularity (57th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Boiling Point, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- okinawa · 5
- drinking · 5
- yen · 1
- gun · 22
- baseball · 8
- interracial relationship · 7
- tragic event · 7
- car crash · 6
- japan · 454
- revenge · 210
- police · 105
- yakuza · 93
- gangster · 85
- gore · 51
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,313 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (49th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Crime productions specifically: #164 of 402 (top 41%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Bandai Visual, Shochiku-Fuji Company |
| Runtime | 1h 36m |
| Release Date | September 15, 1990 |
| IMDb | tt0098967 |
| Official Site | www.shochiku.co.jp |