Gettysburg vs In This Corner of the World

In This Corner of the World has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.9/10 for Gettysburg). In This Corner of the World is the shorter watch at 2h 10m compared with 4h 14m. Gettysburg is the older of the two (1993 against 2016). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Gettysburg posterGettysburg1993 VS In This Corner of the World posterIn This Corner of the World2016
GettysburgIn This Corner of the World
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 7.9/10
Year19932016
Length4h 14m2h 10m
GenresDrama, History, WarAnimation, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country–Japan
DirectorRonald F. MaxwellSunao Katabuchi
Main castSam Elliott, Kevin Conway, Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Stephen LangYoshimasa Hosoya, Daisuke Ono, Megumi Han, Non, Natsuki Inaba

Synopsis

Gettysburg

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

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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