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.
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 2020–2022 Japan Window
In the crowded 2020-2022 Japan release window, Dear Evan Hansen sits at #393 of 452. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
The 2020s Japan Landscape
2021 was the decade’s peak output year for Japan — 170 titles released, including Dear Evan Hansen. Bars below show how the 2020s stacked up year by year (539 total).
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 17m runtime, production spent $201K per minute on screen and earned $140K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 169 other Japan films in 2021.
The 4327th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
270 audience reviews — more than 89% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (89th percentile) outruns trending popularity (74th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Dear Evan Hansen, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- letter · 5
- social anxiety · 3
- mental health · 1
- emotional vulnerability · 1
- gaslighting · 1
- mother son relationship · 21
- based on play or musical · 16
- mental illness · 13
- guilt · 11
- teenage boy · 8
- grief · 7
- high school · 88
- musical · 71
- suicide · 51
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 |