Japan Synopsis
リトル・フォレスト 冬・春
“Farm cook eat to live.”
Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Little Forest: Winter/Spring. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Shochiku
The 2014–2016 Japan Window
Little Forest: Winter/Spring holds position #128 of 581 Japan films in the 2014–2016 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 Little Forest: Winter/Spring premiered alongside 180 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 180 other Japan films in 2015.
The 3093rd Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
71 audience reviews — more than 70% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (70th percentile) outruns trending popularity (45th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Little Forest: Winter/Spring, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- agriculture · 4
- horticulture · 3
- rural area · 26
- food · 21
- nature · 15
- cooking · 13
- japanese cuisine · 12
- countryside · 11
- village life · 7
- japan · 454
- based on manga · 297
- slice of life · 58
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #944 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (79th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.8 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #397 of 1,933 (top 21%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Shochiku |
| Runtime | 2h 0m |
| Release Date | January 28, 2015 |
| IMDb | tt3474602 |
| Official Site | web.archive.org |