In This Corner of the World

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    In This Corner of the World
    2016

    Synopsis

    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…

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    Cast

    • NonSuzu Hojo (voice)
    • Yoshimasa HosoyaShusaku Hojo (voice)
    • Daisuke OnoTetsu Mizuhara (voice)
    • Minori OmiKeiko Kuromura (voice)
    • Natsuki InabaHarumi Kuromura (voice)
    • Megumi HanSumi Urano (voice)
    • Nanase IwaiRin Shiraki (voice)
    • Shigeru UshiyamaEntaro Hojo (voice)
    • Mayumi ShintaniSan Hojo (voice)
    • Tsuyoshi KoyamaJuro Urano (voice)

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Total Film

      An exquisite portrait of Hiroshima before the bomb that conjures a powerful sense of what – and who – was lost.
    • 90

      Screen Daily

      This is a beautiful, heart-swelling animated movie, to be certain, but it’s also one that knows that such picturesque sights and pleasant sensations are only part of the equation.
    • 80

      Variety

      Adapting Fumiyo Kono’s 2007 manga of the same title, director Sunao Katabuchi captures the manifold experiences of a housewife during WWII with beguiling intimacy and appealing hand-drawn illustration.
    • 80

      Empire

      A gorgeously rendered and deeply personal portrayal of a young woman’s life in the part of the world where history’s greatest conflict reached a devastating conclusion.
    • 80

      The Telegraph

      Confronting the horrors of history head-on can make for cinema that’s impossible to shake, but Katabuchi’s painterly, introspective film proves a sideways approach can be just as indelible.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      This impressionistic chronicle of the war is, at first, more concerned with household chores and family matters than it is with soldiers on the battlefield, but its harrowing third act reveals what can happen when civilians become targets as well.
    • 80

      Time Out London

      This captivating drama exists on another level: the devastating ending left me sobbing.
    • 75

      Movie Nation

      It’s a reminder that making pretty pictures out of painful history is just a tentative step toward actually grappling with that history, no matter how hard politicians and revisionists fight to keep that from happening.

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