Our Departures vs The Way Home

The Way Home has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.8/10 for Our Departures). The Way Home is the shorter watch at 1h 26m compared with 2h . The Way Home is the older of the two (2002 against 2018). Both are drama, family movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Our Departures posterOur Departures2018 VS The Way Home posterThe Way Home2002
Our DeparturesThe Way Home
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 8.0/10
Year20182002
Length2h 1h 26m
GenresDrama, FamilyDrama, Family
Country––
DirectorYasuhiro YoshidaLee Jeong-hyang
Main castJun Kunimura, Hitomi Miyauchi, Houka Kinoshita, Munetaka Aoki, Mariko TsutsuiKim Eul-boon, Yoo Seung-ho, Dong Hyo-hee, Min Kyung-Hyun, Yim Eun-kyung

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.

The Way Home

This is the story of a 7-year-old boy, Sang-woo, born and raised in the big city, and his mute grandmother, who has spent her whole life in a small rural village.

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