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In This Corner of the World
この世界の片隅に
2016 · Film · 130 min
Directed by Sunao Katabuchi
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…
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I strongly recommend Wolf Children. It's on par with Miyazaki's best. A really moving and heartwarming film.
On the flipside of the spectrum, Grave of the Fireflies and In This Corner of the World are excellent but tragic WW2 films told from the Japanese civilian perspective. Grave of the Fireflies in particular is a difficult watch, but worth seeing once.
I also recommend In This Corner of The World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_This_Corner_of_the_World_(film)
If you're interested in this, I highly recommend watching In This Corner of the World. The perspective of a young woman who lives her life during the war, and her family's tragic experience with the bomb.
If I'm not mistaken, it is the first anime the Emperor of Japan has gone to see personally in theaters (https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/12/18-1/japans-emperor-and-empress-attended-charity-screening-of-in-this-corner-of-the-world-anime-film).
Spoiler-free analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPS2U2ijBkU
US Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80192244