Millennium Actress vs The Shape of Water

Millennium Actress has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.2/10 for The Shape of Water). Millennium Actress is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 2h 3m. Millennium Actress is the older of the two (2002 against 2017). Both are drama, fantasy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Millennium Actress posterMillennium Actress2002 VS The Shape of Water posterThe Shape of Water2017
Millennium ActressThe Shape of Water
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 7.2/10
Year20022017
Length1h 27m2h 3m
GenresAnimation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, RomanceDrama, Fantasy, Romance
Country––
DirectorSatoshi KonGuillermo del Toro
Main castFumiko Orikasa, Koichi Yamadera, Shozo Iizuka, Masaya Onosaka, Masane TsukayamaDoug Jones, Michael Shannon, Nick Searcy, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg

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 Shape of Water

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.

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