After the Storm vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for After the Storm). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m 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
Fireflies at El Mozote| After the Storm | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 57m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | Japan | United States of America |
| Director | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Aju Makita, Hiroshi Abe, Sosuke Ikematsu, Yoko Maki, Lily Franky | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
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.
Fireflies at El Mozote
During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.
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