Japan Synopsis
“America's Most Wanted.”
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
Audience Engagement
4,129 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 Public Enemies. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Relativity Media
Crime + Action in Japan
188 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Crime and Action genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Public Enemies itself).
The 2008–2010 Japan Window
Public Enemies holds position #203 of 386 Japan films in the 2008–2010 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Public Enemies premiered alongside 123 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 20m runtime, production spent $714K per minute on screen and earned $1.5M per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 123 other Japan films in 2009.
The 2211th 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 Public Enemies, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- tied up · 4
- prison guard · 3
- surveillance · 3
- sex · 3
- fbi agent · 3
- cops and robbers · 2
- handgun · 2
- escape from jail · 2
- machinegun · 1
- horse race · 1
- pocket watch · 1
- vicious killings · 1
- tied to a tree · 1
- tied · 1
- semi-automatic rifle · 1
- 1930s · 23
- escape · 22
- gun · 22
- prison escape · 9
- 1900s · 8
- bank robbery · 7
- manhunt · 7
- gangster · 85
- biography · 75
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,706 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (41st percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.2 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Crime productions specifically: #205 of 402 (top 51%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Japan, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Relativity Media, Forward Pass, Misher Films, Tribeca Productions, Appian Way |
| Runtime | 2h 20m |
| Release Date | July 1, 2009 |
| IMDb | tt1152836 |