In This Corner of the World (2016)2h10
Animation · Drama · War · History
Director Sunao Katabuchi
Also directed Mai Mai Miracle, Princess Arete, The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard, and 9 more
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
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Yoshimasa Hosoya
Natsuki Inaba
Minori Omi
Daisuke Ono
Megumi Han
Nanase Iwai
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