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In This Corner of the World (2016)
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Suzu's drawing, cooking and household economies keep wartime Kure recognisable as a place people inhabit before it becomes a historical event. Sunao Katabuchi's animation gives changing ingredients and small accidents dramatic weight. The fictional family's ordinary adjustments make the cost of Japan's war tangible without requiring battlefield spectacle.
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About In This Corner of the World
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…