Ride Your Wave vs Ruby Sparks
Ride Your Wave has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 7.1/10 for Ruby Sparks). Ride Your Wave is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 1h 44m. Ruby Sparks is the older of the two (2012 against 2019). Both are comedy, drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Ride Your Wave
Ruby Sparks| Ride Your Wave | Ruby Sparks | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 34m | 1h 44m |
| Genres | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance |
| Country | Japan | United States of America |
| Director | Masaaki Yuasa | Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris |
| Main cast | Rina Kawaei, Haruki Ishiya, Kentaro Ito, Ryota Katayose, Honoka Matsumoto | Wallace Langham, Toni Trucks, Paul Dano, Alia Shawkat, Deborah Ann Woll |
Synopsis
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.
Ruby Sparks
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
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