In This Corner of the World

2016 7.9 (574 votes) 2h 10m

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Genres

Drama Animation Romance War History

Production Companies

GENCO
MAPPA

In This Corner of the World (この世界の片隅に)

Torn apart by war. Brought together by love.

Overview

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…