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- 2017
- PG-13
- FUNimation Entertainment
- 2 h 9 m
- 2017
- PG-13
- FUNimation Entertainment
- 2 h 9 m
Summary The award-winning story of In This Corner of the World follows a young lady named Suzu Urano, who in 1944 moves to the small town of Kure in Hiroshima to live with her husband’s family. Suzu’s life is thrown into chaos when her town is bombed during World War II. Her perseverance and courage underpin this heart-warming and inspirational ...
Directed By: Sunao Katabuchi
Written By: Fumiyo Kono, Chie Uratani, Sunao Katabuchi
- 2017
- PG-13
- FUNimation Entertainment
- 2 h 9 m
- 2017
- PG-13
- FUNimation Entertainment
- 2 h 9 m
In This Corner of the World
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7.8
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Summary The award-winning story of In This Corner of the World follows a young lady named Suzu Urano, who in 1944 moves to the small town of Kure in Hiroshima to live with her husband’s family. Suzu’s life is thrown into chaos when her town is bombed during World War II. Her perseverance and courage underpin this heart-warming and inspirational ...
Directed By: Sunao Katabuchi
Written By: Fumiyo Kono, Chie Uratani, Sunao Katabuchi
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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86% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
73
86% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
14% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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An exquisite portrait of Hiroshima before the bomb that conjures a powerful sense of what – and who – was lost.
This captivating drama exists on another level: the devastating ending left me sobbing.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 User Ratings
7.8
83% Positive
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14% Mixed
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3% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 User Ratings
7.8
83% Positive
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
14% Mixed
4 Ratings
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3% Negative
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One of the most exquisite, beautiful Japenese animes of the year. The hand-made style recreates in a unique way the life of a young woman in wartime, just before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not so tragic as The grave of fireflies but is a full delight.
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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.
The elegant, condensed saga covers a dozen years, starting in 1933. You don't need to be an Einstein to guess where the story is heading. An evocative, slow-blooming feature is a study on the flash horrors of war and the gradual death of dreams.
For an American/international audience, perhaps the most important contribution provided by In This Corner of the World is one of perspective.
Sunao Katabuchi displays a vivid, shattering awareness of how domestic routines can spiritually ground one during a time of demoralizing chaos.
In This Corner of the World is 129 minutes, an eternity for an animated film, especially one so wispy in look and so sparing in plot.
Although it starts slow, it completely makes up for it in the second half. Beautiful both visually and from a story telling standpoint. I think it's best not to look at it specifically from a viewpoint of someone from world war 2, but just someone from any country that's going through war. Suzi's story is an interesting view into someone who is living through and has lost due to war.
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An earnest if slightly aimless film about a civilian POV in the latter days of the Japanese Empire.
The movie is told through the eyes of Suzu, a young girl whose life is very much dominated by the war, as she is essentially shipped off to a forced marriage to a militaryman, she is stuck with a step-sister who hates her, death and suffering come to her and her surroundings, and she is left to her own devices against the rationing, american bombing runs and general misery.
At the same time, her husband is kind to her, her family does accept her, she has no personal threats, and she isn't exactly being particularly mistreated.
The movie feels like a lot of energy is spent on this protagonist, which is a bit of an issue because this protagonist feels like a real person, and they have no special trait, they feel real and normal and live real and normal lives in a difficult time.
Had this movie been more focused on a main message or on its portrayal of 35-45 Japan, I think it would have gained in strength. All this could still have been done from the POV of one civilian, but that civilian could've been a bit more "imaginary" and lived through more telltale events of the period rather than showing them making food recipes with wild plants.
Besides this, the movie is really good all around. The emotions do swirl at some points, without it being overdrawn like in an american drama where the basest of the base is used to jerk tears out of your eyes. Here it's tragic and dramatic without feeling cheap or fake.
The movie has some odd moments (like that time we seemingly see her have "two lives" and one turns out to be a dream) but it is beautifully animated, with great music, good taste, and is an all around piece of truth about the american bombing policy and their effects on the civilian population.
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One of the best Japanese animations that I have seen in recent years and with them the quality ribbon is always high, a painful but beautiful story of one of their greatest tragedies and if anyone is going to talk about the horrors of Hiroshima are the people who suffered it raw.
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As an anime, this is beautiful. Top notch production values. The same can't be said of the subject matter. This is classic Japanese revisionist propaganda in which they paint themselves as victims of World War 2 rather than the monstrous perpetrators that they were. And they use a sympathetic child protagonist to boot. Japan, own up to your past. Accept that the suffering your civilian populace incurred was a consequence of your own terrible actions.
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Awards
Mainichi Film Concours
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Kinema Junpo Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Hawaii Film Critics Society
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
