Soul vs The Boy and the Heron
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.4/10 for The Boy and the Heron). Soul is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 2h 4m. Soul is the older of the two (2020 against 2023). Both are animation, drama, family movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Soul
The Boy and the Heron| Soul | The Boy and the Heron | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.1/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2023 |
| Length | 1h 41m | 2h 4m |
| Genres | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy | Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Pete Docter | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Main cast | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett | Jun Kunimura, Ko Shibasaki, Shinobu Otake, Masaki Suda, Kaoru Kobayashi |
Synopsis
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…
The Boy and the Heron
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."
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