Soup

Where to watch Soup in Japan

Soup is available to rent or buy on Google Play Movies in Japan. It isn't on a subscription streaming service there yet. Availability checked 6 June 2026.

About Soup

Soup is a 2012 movie in the Fantasy and Drama genres, directed by Yuki Otsuka, starring Katsuhisa Namase, Manami Konishi and Yuiko Kariya. It has a runtime of 1 hour 57 minutes. It holds an average rating of 7.0/10 from 1 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Soup in Japan — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Overview

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.

Top 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

S

Sera Rinka

Keisuke Horibe

Tetsuhiro Ikeda

Mitsuki Tanimura

Sayaka Yamaguchi

S

Soutarou Wada

N

Nanami Mitsuhashi

Reiko Makino

Hiroki Nakajima

Yoshihisa Uchida

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