In This Corner of the World (Kono sekai no katasumi ni) [Sub: Eng]
Newlywed Suzu Urano moves to her new life in Kure City on the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture, where she perseveres through World War II with pluck and determination.
16 August 1982, Arlington, Texas, USA
29 January 1966, Fort Irwin, California, USA
12 July 1988, USA
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19 July 1988, Dallas, Texas, USA
December 15, 2017
This is not an animated movie for young children. There will be loads of those in the next few weeks as the school holidays kick in. But In This Corner of the World is remarkable.
August 17, 2017
The painterly beauty of anime detaches the viewer from the terrible events depicted, but it also makes these cataclysms more accessible to the imagination.
August 17, 2017
"Corner" is a deeply sympathetic tale, using the possibilities of animation not just to pique curiosity, but to devastate.
December 18, 2017
The animation is lovely, often incorporating Suzu's sketches, painting and visualizations, including a genre-breaking sequence toward the end that in its simplicity delivers both a visual and emotional shock.
August 17, 2017
[Suzu's] life is treated as thoroughly unexceptional ... except of course it isn't. Besides a heart full of (hesitant) love and a soul full of (bashful) virtue, she has the artist's drive to capture the passing world
August 18, 2017
An elegant reminder that we can never forget what life during wartime does to the human soul.
December 28, 2017
A Japanese anime film about a young woman's daily life in a town near Hiroshima during World War II.
December 07, 2017
It has jaw-droppingly gorgeous settings, in which all the buildings are depicted with full accuracy, as are the homes of the peasant families who live on a mountain slope, overlooking the (largely wooden) city.
December 07, 2017
Katabuchi's saga of course lacks the monstrous nature of so much manga, instead telling a very human - if still sweeping - tale with few traces of the fantastic.
August 18, 2017
From the casualties-of-war file comes a gorgeous-looking animated feature from the writer-director Sunao Katabuchi.
August 10, 2017
It's the images that are meant to stay with us, and they do.
January 29, 2018
The way we manage our disposition toward unremarkable life and the way conditions change over time can be subtle, but they're important. In This Corner of the World endeavors to showcase that.

