Hachiko vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.9/10 for Hachiko). Soul is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 2h 4m. Soul is the older of the two (2020 against 2023). Both are drama, family movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hachiko
Soul| Hachiko | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.9/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2020 |
| Length | 2h 4m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Drama, Family | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Xu Ang | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Joan Chen, Zhang Lei, Feng Xiaogang, Bai Jugang, Huang Chutong | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Hachiko
This is the story of a puppy that touched hundreds of millions of people around the world. Hachiko is a cute Chinese pastoral dog. He met his destined owner Chen Jingxiu in the vast crowd and became a member of the Chen family. With the passage of time, the once beautiful home is no longer there, but Batong is still waiting where it is, and its fate is closely tied to its family.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…