Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni (In This Corner of the World)

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Synonyms: To All the Corners of the World

Japanese: この世界の片隅に

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Nov 12, 2016

Producers: Genco, Animatsu Entertainment

Licensors: Shout! Factory

Studios: MAPPA

Source: Manga

Genres: Award Winning, Drama

Theme: Historical

Demographic: Seinen

Duration: 2 hr. 48 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.23¹ (scored by 77,787 users)

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Ranked: #332²

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Popularity: #1270

Members: 188,657

Favorites: 1,555

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Suzu Urano is a pure and kindhearted girl who loves to draw and keep her head in the clouds. Growing up in the outskirts of Hiroshima with her family, she is more than happy to help with her grandmother's nori business.

However, when she becomes of age, Suzu leaves her beloved home to marry Shuusaku Houjou, a man she barely knows. As she integrates into her new husband's household, the homesick bride struggles to adjust to the unfamiliar environment as the war effort extends far beyond its point of no return. When the war reaches Suzu's own backyard and peace gives way to brutality, how will she support herself and those she comes to love along the way?

Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni paints a colorful yet haunting depiction of everyday life in the years before and after World War II, showcasing the perseverance and fortitude of ordinary Japanese during one of the darkest periods of modern history.

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Winner of the 40th Japan Academy Award for Best Animation Award, the 90th Kinema Junpo Best Ten Japan Film Best 1 and Director Award, 71st Mainichi Film Concurs Japanese Movie Excellence Award and Ofuji Nobushiro Prize, 59th Blue Ribbon Award Director Award, Hiroshima Peace Film Award during the 3rd Hiroshima International Film Festival, and the Best Film during the 38th Yokohama Film Festival.

It also won the Grand Prize Award on the 21st Japan Media Arts Festival.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Urano, Suzu

Main

Nounen, Rena
Japanese

Houjou, Shuusaku

Main

Hosoya, Yoshimasa
Japanese

Kuromura, Harumi

Supporting

Inaba, Natsuki
Japanese

Kuromura, Keiko

Supporting

Omi, Minori
Japanese

Urano, Sumi

Supporting

Han, Megumi
Japanese

Shiraki, Rin

Supporting

Iwai, Nanase
Japanese

Mizuhara, Tetsu

Supporting

Ono, Daisuke
Japanese

Urano, Juurou

Supporting

Koyama, Tsuyoshi
Japanese

Doumoto

Supporting

Semi, Kikuyo
Japanese

Urano, Kiseno

Supporting

Tsuda, Masumi
Japanese

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Matsuo, Ryouichirou

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Katabuchi, Sunao

Director, Sound Director, Script, Theme Song Lyrics

Kouno, Fumiyo

Theme Song Lyrics, Original Creator

kotringo

Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Composition, Music

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Opening Theme

"Kanashikute Yarikirenai (悲しくてやりきれない)" by kotringo

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Ending Theme

"Migite no Uta (みぎてのうた)" by Kotringo

Reviews

Nov 23, 2016

GohanwaOkazu

Recommended

A "Slice of Life" in Kure and Hiroshima in 1940s, Involving Love, Laughter, Fantasy, Hope, and Death.

The protagonist is a nonchalant (at least on the surface) and a bit dreamy ordinary girl who loves to draw and paint. She is raised in Hiroshima and marries into a family of a young man employed in the naval town of Kure,

The movies goes into great detail showing the life of an ordinary family of that time. It starts as a great slice of life, of her old-style marriage with a new husband, sharing life with in-laws and communicating with neighbors. There are happy, sweet, and tender ...

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Aug 25, 2020

kirazerorequiem

Mixed Feelings

This film brings you on a journey about a girl living through a war period with air raids being a normal occurrence. At first the movie was pretty mundane and boring, while the animation was unique it was also its downfall at times, especially for the characters design imo. i cant get over how the main is suppose to be 18 when she looks 10.

you get your slice of life, getting to know the characters and settings a bit, about halfway through is when the action went down. i am unsure why they are attacking a remote ...

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Sep 25, 2017

ShrinePriest

Not Recommended

Some spoilers below, be you warned.

There are several ways in which one can engage in criticism.

There are objective determinations on which one can base their criticism. There are also criticisms that come from biases and presumptions that one as an individual have and want to see, presumptions and biases which others might not share. To some extent, there's overlap and ambiguity in the delineation between these two styles of criticism. In a trivial way, what is typically seen as objectively bad writing might not bother someone else out of apathy. For instance, a central drama or conflict which becomes resolved without any proper build up ... towards that resolving (viz., deus ex machina). In less trivial ways, individuals may share different substantive views on the moral responsibility involved with storytelling.

The issues I find most arresting about this film come more from the latter than the former, but I did want to express the idea that this film had some issues on this front: a number of scenes could have been cut without any harm done to the film's narrative integrity (if there ever was any) which served no purpose; a number of scene or shot transitions were noticeably rough (the atomic bombing scene as well as the rapid transitions in the beginning portions of the film come first to mind); there's a lot of thematic inconsistency (note the art direction, the main character's childish naivete and aloofness, in contrast to some of the darker themes later on, which aren't themselves that well developed or strongly held onto); similar to the previous point, but some of the darker themes (Suzu's depression, Suzu's wish for the war to continue) are introduced and dropped real quickly without buildup, and certainly without resolution.

On this last point I can imagine some who would disagree. They might argue that Suzu's wish for the war to continue comes from all that she's sacrificed. What Suzu has "sacrificed" for the war however isn't very clear. A lot of the labor she's performed in the film has simply been from her position as a wife in Japan in the early 20th century, much of the seriousness of her labor is further reduced by the naivete of Suzu and the lighthearted approach of the film which seems to take no interest in displaying Suzu's labor here as what would be seen today as a loss of liberty. Without having access to these grounds for Suzu's exhortations, the disagreer is forced to say that Suzu's sacrifice comes from the loss of her hand and Harumi, but Suzu's relationship with Harumi isn't well developed. In any case, the conclusion seems to be that Harumi and Suzu's hand are lost to ground Suzu's wish for continued war, which makes the point seem forced. And for what? A single scene which is completely abandoned once we've transition to the next.

What was most arresting about this film however was its glossed naivete. Our main character, Suzu, is a character without much thought or intelligence behind her. This is not a character well suited for viewing the Second World War and what it meant. As I discussed in other ways before, Suzu's naivete actually collides with the narrative at certain points. For instance, Suzu's wish for the war's continuance when she has never expressed any feeling or thought about the war or what it means. This film could have used such a character's naivete to make a point, but this film didn't seem interested in that. There was no dramatic irony in the early bits of the film when Suzu is married off and is forced to labor for her new family. The film doesn't treat this as if we, the viewer, know better about what's going on than Suzu does. It instead plays it lightheartedly.

The sharpest expression of this naivete, was the contrast between the character designs and the moral context of the film's very setting. It strikes me as not an accident that all the characters in the film are designed with childlike intimations. The film seems to wish for the viewer to view the characters as innocent children. This is a very troubling request given the moral dynamics of the Second World War, and Japan's role therein.

This may or may not have been intentional. I'd actually have a lot more respect for the film had it not only been intentional, but had it been part of a larger message or purpose. I don't view this film harshly because of some perceived immorality to it, I view it harshly because it offers no artistic or narrative contribution to the subject of Japan in the Second World War, has seriously flawed writing, all the while contributing aimlessly to a morally problematic viewpoint with contemporary ramifications.

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