In This Corner of the World
2016 · Movie · PG-13 · 130 min · ★ 7.9 · 85% critics
In wartime Japan, a young woman leaves her rural home to marry into a family in a busy naval port. As shortages and air raids intensify, she leans on creativity and everyday routines to keep her household going, finding small moments of beauty even as loss and hardship close in.
Based on In This Corner of the World
Also known as To All the Corners of the World · In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World · In This Corner and Other Corners of the World
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Details
- Original title
- この世界の片隅に
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-11-12
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 85/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.9/10 (629 votes)
- Box office
- $22,500,000
- Budget
- $2,200,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a quiet, emotional wartime slice-of-life that finds warmth in ordinary moments amid hardship; Not for you if you need fast pacing or light themes—consider A Silent Voice: The Movie for a different tearjerker.
Pros: moving everyday resilience; beautiful, gentle tone; thoughtful wartime perspective | Cons: slow slice-of-life pace; uneven, jumpy structure; can feel emotionally heavy
Themes
- japan
- husband wife relationship
- world war ii
- hiroshima, japan
- family relationships
- based on manga
- adult animation
- seinen
- 1940s
- anime
- 1930s
- shōwa era (1926-89)
Awards & recognition
- Annecy Cristal — a Feature Film · 2017 · nominated
Cast & crew
Non
as Suzu Hojo (voice)
Yoshimasa Hosoya
as Shusaku Hojo (voice)
Natsuki Inaba
as Harumi Kuromura (voice)
Minori Omi
as Keiko Kuromura (voice)
Daisuke Ono
as Tetsu Mizuhara (voice)
Megumi Han
as Sumi Urano (voice)
Nanase Iwai
as Rin Shiraki (voice)
Shigeru Ushiyama
as Entaro Hojo (voice)
Mayumi Shintani
as San Hojo (voice)
Tsuyoshi Koyama
as Juro Urano (voice)
Directed by Sunao Katabuchi