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In This Corner of the World
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In This Corner of the World

Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni · 2016

An ordinary woman lives through the Hiroshima war.

StatusFinished Airing SeasonFall 2016 StudioMAPPA SourceManga
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Suzu marries into a family in Kure, a naval town near Hiroshima, and spends the war years doing what most people actually did: cooking with dwindling rations, mending clothes, drawing when she can, and adapting to circumstances that keep narrowing. The film builds its power through accumulated domestic detail rather than spectacle, so that when violence arrives it lands against a life the audience knows intimately. Historical catastrophe is depicted almost entirely through its effect on ordinary household routine. Every ordinary detail accumulates until the catastrophe lands with unbearable specificity.

⚠ Background — may contain spoilers
Directed by Sunao Katabuchi and adapted from Fumiyo Kouno's manga, In This Corner of the World was funded partly through crowdfunding and became a significant critical and commercial success in Japan, winning major domestic awards. Its meticulous historical research, extending to accurate period recipes, street layouts, and daily wartime routines, gave it unusual credibility. The film is frequently discussed alongside Grave of the Fireflies as one of animation's most affecting works about civilian experience during the Second World War. Its refusal to dramatize suffering is precisely what makes the film so effective.
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