Japan Synopsis
Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he comes across a senior high school girl Ayumi who is being harassed consistently by Chinese brokers and the local yakuza. He decides to protect her from them. However, after this incident, he comes to develop a mindset of seeing violence as a way to gain the affirmation and approval of others thus gradually loses himself and behaves in an extreme manner.
The 2021–2023 Japan Window
389 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Pure Japanese sits at position #176.
The 2020s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2020s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Pure Japanese premiered. 539 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,456 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (68th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.5 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Action productions specifically: #624 of 1,714 (top 36%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Runtime | 1h 28m |
| Release Date | January 28, 2022 |
| IMDb | tt21817596 |