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…
The 1985–1987 Japan Window
100 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. They Were Eleven sits at position #43.
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
The 1980s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 1980s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when They Were Eleven premiered. 280 total titles in this decade from Japan.
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 |