In This Corner of the World vs Joyeux Noel
In This Corner of the World has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 7.4/10 for Joyeux Noel). Joyeux Noel is the shorter watch at 1h 56m compared with 2h 10m. Joyeux Noel is the older of the two (2005 against 2016). Both are drama, history, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
In This Corner of the World
Joyeux Noel| In This Corner of the World | Joyeux Noel | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.9/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2005 |
| Length | 2h 10m | 1h 56m |
| Genres | Animation, Drama, History, Romance, War | Drama, History, Romance, War |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Sunao Katabuchi | Christian Carion |
| Main cast | Yoshimasa Hosoya, Daisuke Ono, Megumi Han, Non, Natsuki Inaba | Steven Robertson, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Ian Richardson, Benno Fürmann |
Synopsis
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…
Joyeux Noel
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
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