Japan Synopsis
“Once you enter Silent Hill, there is no turning back.”
Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
Audience Engagement
3,887 audience reviews — more than 99% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 87th percentile among Japan films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Silent Hill. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From TriStar Pictures
Horror + Mystery in Japan
60 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Horror and Mystery genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Silent Hill itself).
The 2005–2007 Japan Window
Silent Hill holds position #235 of 364 Japan films in the 2005–2007 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
2006 was the decade’s peak output year for Japan — 134 titles released, including Silent Hill. Bars below show how the 2000s stacked up year by year (1020 total).
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 5m runtime, production spent $400K per minute on screen and earned $805K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 133 other Japan films in 2006.
The 1821st 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 Silent Hill, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- orphanage · 5
- classroom · 5
- darkness · 4
- child murder · 4
- another dimension · 4
- nun · 3
- moral ambiguity · 3
- pedophilia · 2
- fog · 2
- heroism · 2
- suffering · 1
- mother role · 1
- witch burning · 1
- barbed wire · 1
- survival · 28
- torture · 26
- religion · 25
- hospital · 23
- child abuse · 15
- possession · 15
- hotel · 13
- nurse · 13
- sadism · 9
- symbolism · 7
- revenge · 210
- monster · 91
- supernatural · 89
- school · 82
- gore · 51
- surrealism · 34
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,062 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (33rd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.4 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Horror productions specifically: #107 of 391 (top 27%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Canada, France, Japan, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | TriStar Pictures, Silent Hill DCP Inc., Davis Films, Konami, Focus Features |
| Runtime | 2h 5m |
| Release Date | April 21, 2006 |
| IMDb | tt0384537 |
| Official Site | www.sonypictures.com |