Japan Synopsis
“An honest and original story for the outsider in all of us.”
Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.
The 2020–2022 Japan Window
452 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Dear Evan Hansen sits at position #393.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Dear Evan Hansen. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
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The 2020s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2020s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Dear Evan Hansen premiered. 539 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 17m runtime, production spent $201K per minute on screen and earned $140K per minute back.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,419 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (25th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.6 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #1,512 of 1,933 (top 78%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Japan, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures, Marc Platt Productions, Perfect World Pictures, dentsu |
| Runtime | 2h 17m |
| Release Date | September 24, 2021 |
| IMDb | tt9357050 |
| Official Site | www.dehmovie.com |