Japan Synopsis
“Witness the beginning of evil.”
Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
Audience Engagement
2,176 audience reviews — more than 99% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 97th percentile among Japan films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Horror + Science Fiction in Japan
93 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Horror and Science Fiction genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City itself).
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The 2020–2022 Japan Window
In the crowded 2020-2022 Japan release window, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City sits at #418 of 452. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
The 2020s Japan Landscape
2021 was the decade’s peak output year for Japan — 170 titles released, including Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Bars below show how the 2020s stacked up year by year (539 total).
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 47m runtime, production spent $234K per minute on screen and earned $392K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 169 other Japan films in 2021.
The 4356th 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 Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- orphanage · 5
- police station · 4
- ghost town · 2
- secret experiment · 2
- lockdown · 1
- duringcreditsstinger · 26
- mutant · 15
- 1990s · 14
- reboot · 13
- biological weapon · 7
- infection · 7
- mansion · 6
- based on video game · 90
- zombie · 42
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,795 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 Horror productions specifically: #182 of 391 (top 47%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Canada, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Constantin Film, Davis Films, Screen Gems, CAPCOM, Impact Pictures |
| Runtime | 1h 47m |
| Release Date | November 24, 2021 |
| IMDb | tt6920084 |
| Official Site | www.residentevil.movie |