Christmas Karma vs Ride Your Wave

Ride Your Wave has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 5.3/10 for Christmas Karma). Ride Your Wave is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 1h 54m. Ride Your Wave is the older of the two (2019 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Christmas Karma posterChristmas Karma2025 VS Ride Your Wave posterRide Your Wave2019
Christmas KarmaRide Your Wave
Audience score★ 5.3/10★ 7.6/10
Year20252019
Length1h 54m1h 34m
GenresComedy, Drama, FantasyAnimation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country–Japan
DirectorGurinder ChadhaMasaaki Yuasa
Main castHugh Bonneville, Bilal Hasna, Leo Suter, Kunal Nayyar, Eva LongoriaRina Kawaei, Haruki Ishiya, Kentaro Ito, Ryota Katayose, Honoka Matsumoto

Synopsis

Christmas Karma

In modern-day London, an unkind British-Indian businessman is compelled by three ghosts to reflect on his life and to consider the needs of those around him.

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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