Anna Karenina vs In This Corner of the World

In This Corner of the World has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.7/10 for Anna Karenina). Anna Karenina is the older of the two (2012 against 2016). Both are drama, history, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Anna Karenina posterAnna Karenina2012 VS In This Corner of the World posterIn This Corner of the World2016
Anna KareninaIn This Corner of the World
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 7.9/10
Year20122016
Length2h 10m2h 10m
GenresDrama, History, RomanceAnimation, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country–Japan
DirectorJoe WrightSunao Katabuchi
Main castKelly Macdonald, Michelle Dockery, Jude Law, Keira Knightley, Matthew MacfadyenYoshimasa Hosoya, Daisuke Ono, Megumi Han, Non, Natsuki Inaba

Synopsis

Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

In This Corner of the World

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

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