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In This Corner of the World

In This Corner of the World

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 12, 2016

Runtime

2h 10m

Genres

Drama, Animation, Romance, War, History

User Score

79%

Original Title

この世界の片隅に

Production Companies

GENCO, MAPPA

Director

Sunao Katabuchi

Revenue

$19,496,308

Description

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…