Millennium Actress vs The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

Millennium Actress has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6/10 for The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon). The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon is the shorter watch at 9m compared with 1h 27m. The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon is the older of the two (1907 against 2002). Both are comedy, fantasy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Millennium ActressThe Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 6.0/10
Year20021907
Length1h 27m9m
GenresAnimation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, RomanceComedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country––
DirectorSatoshi KonGeorges Méliès
Main castFumiko Orikasa, Koichi Yamadera, Shozo Iizuka, Masaya Onosaka, Masane TsukayamaGeorges Méliès, Mademoiselle Bodson, Manuel

Synopsis

Millennium Actress

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.

The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the…

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