Love Is All You Need
2012 1h 56m movie Film Japan

Love Is All You Need

Den skaldede frisør

“It started when everything was over.”

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.

The 2011–2013 Japan Window

482 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Love Is All You Need sits at position #403.

  1. Solitary Gourmet
    #1

    Solitary Gourmet

    ★ 9.0 · 2012

  2. Carnival Phantasm
    #2

    Carnival Phantasm

    ★ 8.9 · 2011

  3. Attack on Titan
    #3

    Attack on Titan

    ★ 8.7 · 2013

  4. High School D×D
    #4

    High School D×D

    ★ 8.6 · 2012

  5. Hunter x Hunter
    #5

    Hunter x Hunter

    ★ 8.6 · 2011

  6. Kamisama Kiss
    #6

    Kamisama Kiss

    ★ 8.6 · 2012

  7. Golden Time
    #7

    Golden Time

    ★ 8.6 · 2013

  8. Magi
    #8

    Magi

    ★ 8.6 · 2012

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.

The 2010s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Love Is All You Need premiered. 1769 total titles in this decade from Japan.

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Budget & Box Office Efficiency

$5.5M
Budget
$16.7M
Revenue
$11.2M
Net Profit
3.0×
Return Ratio

At a 1h 56m runtime, production spent $47K per minute on screen and earned $144K per minute back.

Reception Benchmarks

6.0
TMDB Rating
258
Audience Reviews
Well Received
Critical Tier

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

Themes & Motifs

  • infidelity
  • hairdresser
  • breast cancer
  • grieving widower
  • wedding
  • chance meeting
  • woman director
  • seaside town
  • lemon tree grove

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