Hair of the Bear vs Kokuho
Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8/10 for Kokuho). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 54m. Kokuho is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hair of the Bear
Kokuho| Hair of the Bear | Kokuho | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 2h 54m |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller | Drama |
| Country | Canada | – |
| Director | Alexandre Trudeau, James McLellan | Sang-il Lee |
| Main cast | Malia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan Lawrence | Ken Watanabe, Min Tanaka, Takahiro Miura, Masatoshi Nagase, Nana Mori |
Synopsis
Hair of the Bear
Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.
Kokuho
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – and one will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of kabuki.
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