Should you watch In This Corner of the World?
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In This Corner of the World
Anime · 2016
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…
The sides of In This Corner of the World
- A young bride who moves to Kure in 1943
- Daily life in a naval port under air raids
- Hiroshima just across the bay
In This Corner of the World is good for you if…
- you like a war film told through cooking, sewing and family meals.
- you like Suzu, dreamy and stubborn, keeping a household going.
- you like hand-drawn images that look like her own sketches.
In This Corner of the World is bad for you if…
- you can't take air raids reaching a family's home, and the grief that follows.
- you need momentum, and most of the film is quiet everyday life.
- you don't watch animated films.
About: daily life · loss · resilience · marriage
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