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.
Audience Engagement
570 audience reviews — more than 94% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (94th percentile) outruns trending popularity (75th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Firestarter. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Science Fiction + Thriller in Japan
61 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Science Fiction and Thriller genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Firestarter itself).
Other Titles From Blumhouse Productions
The 2021–2023 Japan Window
In the crowded 2021-2023 Japan release window, Firestarter sits at #378 of 389. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
The 2020s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2020s in Japan, 539 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Firestarter premiered alongside 131 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 34m runtime, production spent $128K per minute on screen and earned $160K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 131 other Japan films in 2022.
The 4412th 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 Firestarter, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- psychic · 5
- telepathy · 4
- psychic power · 3
- female magician · 1
- secret government agency · 1
- psychic force · 1
- pyrokinesis · 1
- fire · 15
- supernatural power · 11
- based on novel or book · 288
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 |