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In This Corner of the World metropolisjapan.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 4 years, 4 months ago

Director Sunao Katabuchi’s feature length animated film, based on the award-winning manga “In This Corner of the World,” is an anomaly in many ways.
The extended version had its premiere at the 2019 Tokyo International Film Festival in October and will hit theaters in time for Christmas.
We start in 1933 with an 8-year-old Suzu, a charming little girl who loves to draw in a seaside neighborhood in the city of Hiroshima.
Suzu lives a blissful life with her parents who are nori (seaweed) cultivators.
Though they are poor, she attends school and marvels at all the captivating modernization in Hiroshima city, which has been lovingly reconstructed in detailed depictions of the pre-bombing metropolis.