In This Corner of the World
Torn apart by war. Brought together by love.
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…
- Year: 2016
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Drama, Animation, Romance, War, History
- Studio: GENCO, MAPPA
- Keyword: japan, husband wife relationship, world war ii, hiroshima, japan, family relationships, based on manga, adult animation, seinen, 1940s, anime, 1930s, atomic bomb fat man, atomic bomb fat man and little boy, atomic bomb little boy, enola gay, atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, atomic bombings of hiroshima, atomic bombings of nagasaki, atomic bombings of hiroshima (atomic bomb little boy), atomic bombings of nagasaki (atomic bomb fat man), atomic bomb fat man (nagasaki, japan), atomic bomb little boy (hiroshima, japan), atomic bomb fat man (nagasaki, japan) and little boy (hiroshima, japan)
- Director: Sunao Katabuchi
- Cast: Non, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Natsuki Inaba, Minori Omi, Daisuke Ono, Megumi Han