Hotel Rwanda vs In This Corner of the World
In This Corner of the World has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 7.7/10 for Hotel Rwanda). Hotel Rwanda is the shorter watch at 2h 1m compared with 2h 10m. Hotel Rwanda is the older of the two (2004 against 2016). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hotel Rwanda
In This Corner of the World| Hotel Rwanda | In This Corner of the World | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 7.9/10 |
| Year | 2004 | 2016 |
| Length | 2h 1m | 2h 10m |
| Genres | Drama, History, War | Animation, Drama, History, Romance, War |
| Country | – | Japan |
| Director | Terry George | Sunao Katabuchi |
| Main cast | Don Cheadle, Joaquin Phoenix, Cara Seymour, Nick Nolte, David O'Hara | Yoshimasa Hosoya, Daisuke Ono, Megumi Han, Non, Natsuki Inaba |
Synopsis
Hotel Rwanda
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
In This Corner of the World
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…
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