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Soup
70%
Movie
1h 57m
AI Analysis
Soup (2012) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Soup (2012) — a movie tagged as Fantasy and Drama with balanced tone moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife. There in the afterlife they hear of a legendary soup. If some… Our models also surface themes such as war from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for general audiences. Expect steady storytelling (~117 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Soup 70% (1 votes) — solid community ratings for this movie.
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Synopsis
Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife. There in the afterlife they hear of a legendary soup. If someone drinks the legendary soup, that person is reborn, but the reborn person has no memories of their prior life. Kenichi Shibuya then searches for the secrets in the legendary soup, hoping to be reborn, but not forget his daughter.
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 2012-07-07
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- TMDB rating
- 7.0
- TMDB ID
- 431675
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What is Soup about?
Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase ... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
Is there an AI analysis for Soup?
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How long is the movie Soup?
The official runtime for Soup is approximately 117 minutes.
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Cast

Katsuhisa Namase
Kenichi Shibuya

Manami Konishi
Yumi Ayase

Yuiko Kariya
Mika Shibuya

Shuhei Nomura
Naoyuki Mikami

Alice Hirose
Hitomi Misaki

Ai Hashimoto
Chiaki Nishimura

Suzuka Ohgo
Ayumu Yano

Ayumi Ito
Mika Shibuya

Arata Furuta
Ichi Kondo

Hiroki Matsukata
Tsutomu Ishida

Masato Irie

Keiko Horiuchi
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Sera Rinka

Keisuke Horibe

Tetsuhiro Ikeda

Mitsuki Tanimura

Sayaka Yamaguchi
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Soutarou Wada
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