Compensation vs In This Corner of the World
In This Corner of the World has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.6/10 for Compensation). Compensation is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 10m. Compensation is the older of the two (1999 against 2016). Both are drama, history, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Compensation
In This Corner of the World| Compensation | In This Corner of the World | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 7.9/10 |
| Year | 1999 | 2016 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 2h 10m |
| Genres | Drama, History, Romance | Animation, Drama, History, Romance, War |
| Country | – | Japan |
| Director | Zeinabu irene Davis | Sunao Katabuchi |
| Main cast | Michelle A. Banks, John Earl Jelks, Nirvana Cobb, Kevin L. Davis, Christopher Smith | Yoshimasa Hosoya, Daisuke Ono, Megumi Han, Non, Natsuki Inaba |
Synopsis
Compensation
The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.
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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