Fireflies at El Mozote vs In This Corner of the World

Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.9/10 for In This Corner of the World). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 10m. In This Corner of the World is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fireflies at El Mozote posterFireflies at El Mozote2025 VS In This Corner of the World posterIn This Corner of the World2016
Fireflies at El MozoteIn This Corner of the World
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.9/10
Year20252016
Length1h 30m2h 10m
GenresAction, Drama, History, WarAnimation, Drama, History, Romance, War
CountryUnited States of AmericaJapan
DirectorErnesto MelaraSunao Katabuchi
Main castJeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo ShukYoshimasa Hosoya, Daisuke Ono, Megumi Han, Non, Natsuki Inaba

Synopsis

Fireflies at El Mozote

During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.

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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