In This Corner of the World (2016)
Release Date
2016-11-12
Rating
8
Duration
130 min
Countries
Keywords
japan husband wife relationship world war ii hiroshima japan family relationships based on manga adult animation seinen 1940s anime 1930s shōwa era (1926-89)
Qualities
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…
