Japan Synopsis
“100% Pure Adrenaline!”
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Audience Engagement
3,202 audience reviews — more than 99% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 92th percentile among Japan films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Point Break. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Largo Entertainment
Action + Thriller in Japan
123 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Action and Thriller genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Point Break itself).
The 1990–1992 Japan Window
Point Break holds position #27 of 107 Japan films in the 1990–1992 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1990s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in Japan, 447 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Point Break premiered alongside 36 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 2m runtime, production spent $197K per minute on screen and earned $685K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 36 other Japan films in 1991.
The 840th 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 Point Break, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- surfing · 3
- self-destruction · 3
- parachute · 3
- police operation · 3
- extreme sports · 2
- surfer · 1
- surfboard · 1
- parachuting · 1
- wave · 1
- moral conflict · 1
- gang · 26
- california · 20
- undercover · 13
- fbi · 13
- los angeles · 9
- self-discovery · 7
- bank robbery · 7
- woman director · 246
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,909 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (58th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Action productions specifically: #787 of 1,714 (top 46%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Japan, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Largo Entertainment, JVC |
| Runtime | 2h 2m |
| Release Date | January 31, 1991 |
| IMDb | tt0102685 |