Lovesick vs Ride Your Wave

Ride Your Wave has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 5.7/10 for Lovesick). Ride Your Wave is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 1h 36m. Lovesick is the older of the two (1983 against 2019). Both are comedy, fantasy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Lovesick posterLovesick1983 VS Ride Your Wave posterRide Your Wave2019
LovesickRide Your Wave
Audience score★ 5.7/10★ 7.6/10
Year19832019
Length1h 36m1h 34m
GenresComedy, Fantasy, RomanceAnimation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country–Japan
DirectorMarshall BrickmanMasaaki Yuasa
Main castElizabeth McGovern, Christine Baranski, David Strathairn, Wallace Shawn, Renée TaylorRina Kawaei, Haruki Ishiya, Kentaro Ito, Ryota Katayose, Honoka Matsumoto

Synopsis

Lovesick

Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.

Ride Your Wave

Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.

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