Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth
2013 1h 32m movie Film Japan

Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth

劇場版 ペルソナ3 第1章 Spring of Birth

“The End of Everything Begins...”

Synopsis

劇場版 ペルソナ3 第1章 Spring of Birth

“The End of Everything Begins…”

In the spring, male student Makoto Yuki transfers to Gekkoukan High School. However, as he heads to his new dormitory, listening to the music on his headphones, he is stopped. More precisely, time has stopped, and the people who were around him turn into coffins. Makoto learns that this period of time hidden between the minute of midnight is called the Dark Hour, a time when monsters called Shadows appear. Suddenly made the leader of his fellow classmates Yukari and Junpei by his upperclassmen Mitsuru and Akihiko, Makoto must learn empathy, his connection to his comrades, and the meaning of death. With the power of his Evoker aimed at his head, Makoto fights against the Shadows threatening to attack his world from the mysterious tower of Tartarus.

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

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Animation + Action in Japan

1178 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Animation and Action genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth itself).

The 2012–2014 Japan Window

Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth holds position #226 of 530 Japan films in the 2012–2014 window, below highlighted by audience rating.

  1. Solitary Gourmet
    #1

    Solitary Gourmet

    ★ 9.0 · 2012
  2. Attack on Titan
    #2

    Attack on Titan

    ★ 8.7 · 2013
  3. High School D×D
    #3

    High School D×D

    ★ 8.6 · 2012
  4. Haikyu!!
    #4

    Haikyu!!

    ★ 8.6 · 2014
  5. Your Lie in April
    #5

    Your Lie in April

    ★ 8.6 · 2014
  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

The 2010s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Japan, 1769 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth premiered alongside 177 others.

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Position in Catalog

Released alongside 177 other Japan films in 2013.

The 2874th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).

Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).

Audience Engagement

45
Reviews
62nd
Review-volume percentile
59th
Popularity percentile

45 audience reviews — more than 62% of Japan films in our index.

Popularity sits at the 59th percentile among Japan films.

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Distinctive themes · rare across catalog
  • persona · 5
Recurring themes · common across catalog
  • supernatural power · 11
Mainstream tags · widely used across catalog
  • anime · 711
  • based on video game · 90
  • high school · 88
  • death · 43

Reception Benchmarks

7.1
TMDB Rating
45
Audience Reviews
Highly Rated
Critical Tier

Ranked #1,967 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (57th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Among Japan Animation productions specifically: #1,386 of 2,532 (top 55%).

Production Details

Primary CountryJapan
Original LanguageJapanese
Production CompaniesAnime International Company
Runtime1h 32m
Release DateNovember 23, 2013
IMDbtt3198652
Official Sitewww.p3m.jp

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