In This Corner of the World vs Never Look Away
In This Corner of the World has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 7.8/10 for Never Look Away). In This Corner of the World is the shorter watch at 2h 10m compared with 3h 9m. In This Corner of the World is the older of the two (2016 against 2018). Both are drama, history, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
In This Corner of the World
Never Look Away| In This Corner of the World | Never Look Away | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.9/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2018 |
| Length | 2h 10m | 3h 9m |
| Genres | Animation, Drama, History, Romance, War | Drama, History, Romance |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Sunao Katabuchi | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| Main cast | Yoshimasa Hosoya, Daisuke Ono, Megumi Han, Non, Natsuki Inaba | Tom Schilling, Oliver Masucci, Sebastian Koch, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Hanno Koffler |
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…
Never Look Away
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
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