The Torture Club
2014 1h 37m movie Film Japan

The Torture Club

ちょっとかわいいアイアンメイデン

Synopsis

ちょっとかわいいアイアンメイデン

The "Torture Club" is an official after-school activity at the private school Saint Honesty Gakuen. Yuzuki has no idea about the club when she enrolls, and gets abducted by the club members and hauled off the club-room. There, she finds out that upper-class student Aoi, her secret idol, is in the club, and decides to join, but…

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with The Torture Club. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

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Drama + Comedy in Japan

462 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Comedy genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Torture Club itself).

The 2013–2015 Japan Window

In the crowded 2013-2015 Japan release window, The Torture Club sits at #528 of 546. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.

  1. Attack on Titan
    #1

    Attack on Titan

    ★ 8.7 · 2013
  2. Haikyu!!
    #2

    Haikyu!!

    ★ 8.6 · 2014
  3. Your Lie in April
    #3

    Your Lie in April

    ★ 8.6 · 2014
  4. Golden Time
    #4

    Golden Time

    ★ 8.6 · 2013
  5. SCHOOL-LIVE!
    #5

    SCHOOL-LIVE!

    ★ 8.6 · 2015
  6. Castle Town Dandelion
    #6

    Castle Town Dandelion

    ★ 8.6 · 2015
  7. SCANDAL Documentary film HELLO WORLD
    #7

    SCANDAL Documentary film HELLO WORLD

    ★ 8.6 · 2015
  8. The Seven Deadly Sins
    #8

    The Seven Deadly Sins

    ★ 8.5 · 2014

The 2010s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Japan, 1769 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Torture Club premiered alongside 186 others.

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Position in Catalog

Released alongside 186 other Japan films in 2014.

The 3011th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).

Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).

Audience Engagement

28
Reviews
48th
Review-volume percentile
88th
Popularity percentile

28 audience reviews — more than 48% of Japan films in our index.

Popularity (88th percentile) outruns review volume (48th) — a trending, discussed title among Japan films.

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on The Torture Club, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Distinctive themes · rare across catalog
  • teenage sexuality · 5
Recurring themes · common across catalog
  • torture · 26
  • girls love · 24
  • bondage · 11
  • lesbian relationship · 10
  • bdsm · 10
  • lesbian · 9
Mainstream tags · widely used across catalog
  • based on manga · 297

Reception Benchmarks

5.0
TMDB Rating
28
Audience Reviews
Mixed
Critical Tier

Ranked #4,420 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (3rd percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is -1.9 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.

Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #1,904 of 1,933 (top 98%).

Production Details

Primary CountryJapan
Original LanguageJapanese
Production CompaniesKADOKAWA
Runtime1h 37m
Release DateJuly 19, 2014
IMDbtt3617996