Hanami vs Secret Friends
Hanami has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 3.7/10 for Secret Friends). Hanami is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 37m. Secret Friends is the older of the two (1991 against 2025). Both are drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hanami
Secret Friends| Hanami | Secret Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.2/10 | ★ 3.7/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1991 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 37m |
| Genres | Drama, Fantasy | Drama, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Denise Fernandes | Dennis Potter |
| Main cast | Sanaya Andrade, Daílma Mendes, Alice Da Luz Gomes, Nha Nha Rodrigues, Yûta Nakano | Frances Barber, Gina Bellman, Alan Bates, Ian McNeice, Tony Doyle |
Synopsis
Hanami
On a remote volcanic island that everybody wants to leave, little Nana learns to stay. Her mother, Nia, went into exile right after she was born and Nana grows up in the family of her father. One day, the family learns that Nia is ill. Nana begins to develop high fevers and is sent to the foot of a volcano for treatment. There she encounters a world steeped in magical realism, between dreams and reality. Later, when Nana is a teenager, her…
Secret Friends
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions.
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