Japan Synopsis
アンダー・ザ・ドッグ
“Our enemy is the light of humanity.”
The story takes place within Neo Tokyo in the year 2025, five years after a severe terrorist attack at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Students possessing special abilities are forced into serving an elite anti-terrorist unit created by the United Nations, fighting against threats including other ability users. If these agents fail their mission, they will be killed along with their families, who have bombs planted within their heads. One member of this covert ops unit, a Swedish girl by the name of Anthea Kallenberg, seeks to find who she really is.
The 2015–2017 Japan Window
588 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Under the Dog sits at position #386.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Under the Dog. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Under the Dog premiered. 1769 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,827 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (38th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.2 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Action productions specifically: #1,124 of 1,714 (top 66%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Creative Intelligence Arts, Kinema Circus, EM Design, Orange |
| Runtime | 24m |
| Release Date | August 1, 2016 |
| IMDb | tt4020248 |
| Official Site | under-the-dog.com |