Japan Synopsis
“Never play with fire.”
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.
The 2021–2023 Japan Window
389 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Firestarter sits at position #378.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Firestarter. 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 Firestarter premiered. 539 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 34m runtime, production spent $128K per minute on screen and earned $160K per minute back.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #4,086 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (11th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -1.2 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Science Fiction productions specifically: #460 of 566 (top 81%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Canada, Japan, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Blumhouse Productions, Weed Road Pictures, BoulderLight Pictures, Universal Pictures, dentsu |
| Runtime | 1h 34m |
| Release Date | May 12, 2022 |
| IMDb | tt1798632 |
| Official Site | www.firestartermovie.com |