Japan Synopsis
ホムンクルス
A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.
The 2020–2022 Japan Window
452 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Homunculus sits at position #419.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Homunculus. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
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★ 8.2 · Japan
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★ 8.3 · Japan
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★ 8.3 · Japan
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★ 7.1 · China
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★ 6.7 · Japan
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★ 6.5 · Japan
The 2020s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2020s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Homunculus premiered. 539 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,803 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (17th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.9 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #1,679 of 1,933 (top 87%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Booster Project |
| Runtime | 1h 59m |
| Release Date | April 2, 2021 |
| IMDb | tt14404280 |