Our Departures vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.8/10 for Our Departures). Soul is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 2h . Our Departures is the older of the two (2018 against 2020). Both are drama, family movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Our Departures | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.8/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 2020 |
| Length | 2h | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Drama, Family | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Yasuhiro Yoshida | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Jun Kunimura, Hitomi Miyauchi, Houka Kinoshita, Munetaka Aoki, Mariko Tsutsui | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Our Departures
Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…
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