Japan Synopsis
Den skaldede frisør
“It started when everything was over.”
Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Love Is All You Need. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Comedy + Romance in Japan
120 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Comedy and Romance genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Love Is All You Need itself).
The 2011–2013 Japan Window
In the crowded 2011-2013 Japan release window, Love Is All You Need sits at #403 of 482. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Japan, 1769 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Love Is All You Need premiered alongside 164 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 56m runtime, production spent $47K per minute on screen and earned $144K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 164 other Japan films in 2012.
The 2658th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
258 audience reviews — more than 88% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (88th percentile) outruns trending popularity (61th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Love Is All You Need, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- seaside town · 5
- hairdresser · 4
- chance meeting · 3
- breast cancer · 2
- grieving widower · 1
- lemon tree grove · 1
- wedding · 24
- infidelity · 22
- woman director · 246
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,798 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 Comedy productions specifically: #1,217 of 1,411 (top 86%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Germany |
| Original Language | Da |
| Spoken Languages | Danish, Italian, English |
| Production Companies | Zentropa Entertainments, Zentropa International Sweden, Zentropa International Berlin, Film i Väst, Zentropa International France |
| Runtime | 1h 56m |
| Release Date | September 4, 2012 |
| IMDb | tt1854236 |
| Official Site | www.sonyclassics.com |