Hanami vs The Dance of Reality

Hanami has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7.2/10 for The Dance of Reality). Hanami is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 10m. The Dance of Reality is the older of the two (2013 against 2025). Both are drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hanami posterHanami2025 VS The Dance of Reality posterThe Dance of Reality2013
HanamiThe Dance of Reality
Audience score★ 8.2/10★ 7.2/10
Year20252013
Length1h 36m2h 10m
GenresDrama, FantasyDrama, Fantasy
Country–Chile
DirectorDenise FernandesAlejandro Jodorowsky
Main castSanaya Andrade, Daílma Mendes, Alice Da Luz Gomes, Nha Nha Rodrigues, Yûta NakanoAlejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Jeremias Herskovits, Bastián Bodenhöfer

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…

The Dance of Reality

“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and…

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