After the Storm vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for After the Storm). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 57m. After the Storm is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
After the Storm
Dinner with Friends| After the Storm | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 57m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Aju Makita, Hiroshi Abe, Sosuke Ikematsu, Yoko Maki, Lily Franky | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
After the Storm
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.
Dinner with Friends
After the parties, jobs, and hook-ups throughout their twenties and into their thirties, eight friends are trying to hold on to their group as they get older and life gets complicated. Over a series of dinners, the group deals with loyalty, loss, and an uncertain future as relationships shift and secrets are unraveled, with each dinner bringing its own dynamic-shifting announcement of reconciliation, unexpected relationships, and betrayal. The…
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