A Big Bold Beautiful Journey vs Ride Your Wave

Ride Your Wave has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.3/10 for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey). Ride Your Wave is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 1h 49m. Ride Your Wave is the older of the two (2019 against 2025). Both are drama, fantasy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey posterA Big Bold Beautiful Journey2025 VS Ride Your Wave posterRide Your Wave2019
A Big Bold Beautiful JourneyRide Your Wave
Audience score★ 6.3/10★ 7.6/10
Year20252019
Length1h 49m1h 34m
GenresDrama, Fantasy, RomanceAnimation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country–Japan
DirectorKogonadaMasaaki Yuasa
Main castHamish Linklater, Jodie Turner-Smith, Colin Farrell, Billy Magnussen, Calahan SkogmanRina Kawaei, Haruki Ishiya, Kentaro Ito, Ryota Katayose, Honoka Matsumoto

Synopsis

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present... and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

Ride Your Wave

Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.

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