Hanami vs Soul
Hanami and Soul are tied on audience score (8.2/10). Hanami is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 41m. Soul is the older of the two (2020 against 2025). Both are drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hanami
Soul| Hanami | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.2/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Drama, Fantasy | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Denise Fernandes | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Sanaya Andrade, Daílma Mendes, Alice Da Luz Gomes, Nha Nha Rodrigues, Yûta Nakano | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
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…
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…