Japan Synopsis
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Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives herself as being worthless to others, she engages in acts of juvenile delinquency. One day, a transfer student from Yokohama named Eri introduces her to Hiroshi Haruyama, a reckless youth who’s a member of the “Nights” motorcycle gang. Kazuki finds herself increasingly drawn to Hiroshi over time, but he soon becomes leader of the Nights and gets caught up in a conflict with a rival gang.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Hot Road. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
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The 2013–2015 Japan Window
Hot Road holds position #349 of 546 Japan films in the 2013–2015 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Japan, 1769 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Hot Road premiered alongside 186 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 186 other Japan films in 2014.
The 3016th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
11 audience reviews — more than 11% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 12th percentile among Japan films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Hot Road, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- life lessons · 5
- motorcycle gang · 4
- sexual assault · 4
- injury · 2
- teenage · 2
- paralysis · 1
- stepfather · 1
- lonely · 1
- cohabitation · 1
- absent mother · 1
- first love · 23
- infidelity · 22
- motorcycle · 22
- unrequited love · 19
- mother daughter relationship · 17
- bromance · 13
- mental illness · 13
- older man younger woman relationship · 11
- street fight · 6
- based on manga · 297
- friendship · 134
- love · 123
- romance · 94
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,868 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (37th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.2 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #1,262 of 1,933 (top 65%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Shochiku, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company, Fukuoka Broadcasting System, Hiroshima Telecasting |
| Runtime | 1h 59m |
| Release Date | August 16, 2014 |
| IMDb | tt3267258 |
| Official Site | hotroad-movie.jp |