A Silent Voice: The Movie vs From Up on Poppy Hill

A Silent Voice: The Movie has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 7.5/10 for From Up on Poppy Hill). From Up on Poppy Hill is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 2h 9m. From Up on Poppy Hill is the older of the two (2011 against 2016). Both are animation, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Silent Voice: The Movie posterA Silent Voice: The Movie2016 VS From Up on Poppy Hill posterFrom Up on Poppy Hill2011
A Silent Voice: The MovieFrom Up on Poppy Hill
Audience score★ 8.4/10★ 7.5/10
Year20162011
Length2h 9m1h 31m
GenresAnimation, Drama, RomanceAnimation, Drama
CountryJapan–
DirectorNaoko YamadaGoro Miyazaki
Main castSaori Hayami, Miyu Irino, Megumi Han, Kensho Ono, Aoi YuukiMasami Nagasawa, Yuriko Ishida, Rumi Hiiragi, Takashi Naito, Nao Omori

Synopsis

A Silent Voice: The Movie

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

From Up on Poppy Hill

Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull…

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