Embrace of the Serpent vs Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7.7/10 for Embrace of the Serpent). Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 5m. Embrace of the Serpent is the older of the two (2015 against 2018). Both are adventure, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Embrace of the Serpent
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms| Embrace of the Serpent | Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 8.2/10 |
| Year | 2015 | 2018 |
| Length | 2h 5m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Adventure, Drama | Adventure, Animation, Drama, Fantasy |
| Country | – | Japan |
| Director | Ciro Guerra | Mari Okada |
| Main cast | Jan Bijvoet, Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee | Tomokazu Sugita, Hiroaki Hirata, Yuki Kaji, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Yoko Hikasa |
Synopsis
Embrace of the Serpent
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Maquia is a member of a special race called the Iorph who can live for hundreds of years. However, Maquia has always felt lonely despite being surrounded by her people, as she was orphaned from a young age. She daydreams about the outside world, but dares not travel from her home due to the warnings of the clan's chief. One day the kingdom of Mezarte invades her homeland. They already have what is left of the giant dragons, the Renato, under…
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