Dear Basketball vs Sword of the Stranger
Sword of the Stranger has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 7.2/10 for Dear Basketball). Dear Basketball is the shorter watch at 6m compared with 1h 43m. Sword of the Stranger is the older of the two (2007 against 2017). Both are animation, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dear Basketball
Sword of the Stranger| Dear Basketball | Sword of the Stranger | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 7.6/10 |
| Year | 2017 | 2007 |
| Length | 6m | 1h 43m |
| Genres | Animation, History | Action, Animation, History |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Glen Keane | Masahiro Ando |
| Main cast | Kobe Bryant, Mike Breen | Hirofumi Nojima, Akio Otsuka, Maaya Sakamoto, Koichi Yamadera, Unsho Ishizuka |
Synopsis
Dear Basketball
An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.
Sword of the Stranger
Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The unlikely companions form a bond over saving the dog from a poison attack, but chaos erupts when the assassins find Kotaro, and No Name must face his past before a horrible fate is met again.
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