Japan Synopsis
湯を沸かすほどの熱い愛
A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Her Love Boils Bathwater. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Drama + Comedy in Japan
462 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Comedy genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Her Love Boils Bathwater itself).
Other Titles From Pipeline
The 2015–2017 Japan Window
Her Love Boils Bathwater holds position #282 of 588 Japan films in the 2015–2017 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
2016 was the decade’s peak output year for Japan — 213 titles released, including Her Love Boils Bathwater. Bars below show how the 2010s stacked up year by year (1769 total).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 212 other Japan films in 2016.
The 3450th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
44 audience reviews — more than 61% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 68th percentile among Japan films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Her Love Boils Bathwater, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- bath house · 4
- small business · 4
- father daughter relationship · 29
- bullying · 27
- mother daughter relationship · 17
- deaf · 10
- terminal illness · 9
- japan · 454
- husband wife relationship · 46
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,968 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (57th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #862 of 1,933 (top 45%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Pipeline, NTT Plala |
| Runtime | 2h 5m |
| Release Date | October 29, 2016 |
| IMDb | tt4778500 |