Japan Hotarubi no Mori e sits in the top 4% of Japan films on this catalog — ranked #202 of 4,579 by TMDB audience score.
Synopsis
蛍火の杜へ
One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of making him disappear. And so a wondrous adventure awaits…
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #202 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (96th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.5 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Romance productions specifically: #4 of 406 (top 1%).
Audience Engagement
987 audience reviews — more than 97% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (97th percentile) outruns trending popularity (0th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Hotarubi no Mori e. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
5 sharedNatsume's Book of Friends: Ephemeral Bond
★ 7.4 · Japan
4 sharedJujutsu Kaisen 0
★ 8.2 · Japan
3 sharedDemon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
★ 8.3 · Japan
3 sharedSpirited Away
★ 8.5 · Japan
3 sharedThe Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
★ 8.3 · Japan
3 sharedA Whisker Away
★ 7.9 · Japan
Other Titles From Brain's Base
Romance + Animation in Japan
116 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Romance and Animation genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Hotarubi no Mori e itself).
The 2010–2012 Japan Window
Among 441 Japan films we catalog from this window, Hotarubi no Mori e places #16 — near the top of its class.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Japan, 1769 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Hotarubi no Mori e premiered alongside 138 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 138 other Japan films in 2011.
The 2508th 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 Hotarubi no Mori e, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- spirit · 20
- folklore · 10
- japanese mythology · 8
- anime · 711
- based on manga · 297
- supernatural · 89
- slice of life · 58
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Brain's Base |
| Runtime | 45m |
| Release Date | September 17, 2011 |
| IMDb | tt2061702 |