Japan Synopsis
暗黒女子
Set in an academy for daughters of the rich and powerful, this murder mystery involves six girls with a dark secret. Literature club chairman Itsumi Shiraishi, has fallen to her death from the school roof. Rumours soon circulate that one of the members of the literature club is the culprit. New chairman and friend of the victim, Sayuri Sumikawa, holds a meeting and asks each member to recount their whereabouts at the time of Itsumi’s death. Who is telling a lie and what really happened to Itsumi?
The 2016–2018 Japan Window
602 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. The Dark Maidens sits at position #484.
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★ 8.6 · 2018
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Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Dark Maidens. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
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The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Dark Maidens premiered. 1769 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,350 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (27th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.5 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Mystery productions specifically: #322 of 426 (top 76%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Robot Communications, Toei Company, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures |
| Runtime | 1h 45m |
| Release Date | April 1, 2017 |
| IMDb | tt6064378 |
| Official Site | ankoku-movie.jp |