Japan Synopsis
言の葉の庭
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.
Audience Engagement
1,834 audience reviews — more than 98% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (98th percentile) outruns trending popularity (82th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Garden of Words. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From CoMix Wave Films
Animation + Drama in Japan
730 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Animation and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Garden of Words itself).
The 2012–2014 Japan Window
The Garden of Words holds position #120 of 530 Japan films in the 2012–2014 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Japan, 1769 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Garden of Words premiered alongside 177 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 177 other Japan films in 2013.
The 2783rd 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 The Garden of Words, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- chocolate · 2
- shoemaker · 1
- rain · 15
- age difference · 8
- anime · 711
- japan · 454
- coming of age · 78
- tokyo · 78
- seinen · 36
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,024 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (78th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.7 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Animation productions specifically: #822 of 2,532 (top 32%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | CoMix Wave Films |
| Runtime | 46m |
| Release Date | May 31, 2013 |
| IMDb | tt2591814 |