Japan Synopsis
11人いる!
A group of students from the Cosmo Academy are about to take their final exam: surviving for over fifty days in a derelict ship. But when they arrive, they discover that instead of ten students, there are eleven. One of them doesn't belong there…
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with They Were Eleven. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
3 sharedDragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku
★ 7.5 · Japan
3 sharedDragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge
★ 6.9 · Japan
3 sharedMemories
★ 7.4 · Japan
3 sharedGhost in the Shell
★ 7.9 · Japan
3 sharedNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
★ 7.9 · Japan
3 sharedValerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
★ 6.6 · China
Other Titles From Victor Entertainment
Animation + Romance in Japan
116 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Animation and Romance genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding They Were Eleven itself).
The 1985–1987 Japan Window
They Were Eleven holds position #43 of 100 Japan films in the 1985–1987 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1980s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1980s in Japan, 280 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when They Were Eleven premiered alongside 38 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 38 other Japan films in 1986.
The 695th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
17 audience reviews — more than 30% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 28th percentile among Japan films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on They Were Eleven, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- telepathy · 4
- impostor · 3
- exam · 1
- betsucomi · 1
- cyborg · 28
- spacecraft · 13
- anime · 711
- based on manga · 297
- based on comic · 58
- alien · 51
- future · 43
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,411 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (47th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Animation productions specifically: #1,616 of 2,532 (top 64%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Victor Entertainment, Kitty Films |
| Runtime | 1h 31m |
| Release Date | November 1, 1986 |
| IMDb | tt0091309 |