World War II · Film · 2016
In This Corner of the World
この世界の片隅に
Suzu, a dreamy young woman who loves to draw, marries into a family in the naval port of Kure and keeps the household going as rationing, air raids and finally the bomb on her native Hiroshima close in.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 3 places.
Stop 1: Eba, Hiroshima
As a girl, Suzu helps her family harvest seaweed and runs errands into the bustling city centre of Hiroshima.
Stop 2: Kure
Key location
From a hillside house overlooking the fleet, Suzu learns to cook with shrinking rations, and then the air raids begin.
Stop 3: Hiroshima
A flash and a towering cloud rise over Hiroshima; Suzu must wait to learn what has become of her family.
What really happened
Kure, a few kilometres southeast of Hiroshima, was Japan's largest naval arsenal and the port where the battleship Yamato was built. In 1945 American carrier aircraft attacked the remains of the Imperial fleet anchored there, while B-29s bombed the arsenal and burned much of the city in June and July.
On 6 August 1945 the atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima, killing around 70,000 people immediately and roughly 140,000 by the end of the year; from Kure the mushroom cloud was clearly visible. The film adapts Fumiyo Kōno's manga and was researched in great detail, recreating streets, shops and even the weather of specific days from wartime records and photographs.
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Full details
- Original title
- この世界の片隅に
- Directed by
- Sunao Katabuchi
- Countries
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Released
- 2016
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- China & Southeast Asia
- Themes
- Animation
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