Director
Sunao Katabuchi
Starring
Non, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Minori Omi, Natsuki Inaba, Daisuke Ono, Megumi Han
Certificate
12A
Run Time
129 mins
Release Year
2016
Country of Origin
Japan
Language
Japanese
Produced by: Taro Maki, Masao Maruyama
Music: Kotoringo
Screenplay by: Sunao Katabuchi
Director Bio
Sunao Katabuchi
P&I - Director Bio
Sunao Katabuchi majored in animation at Nihon University College of Art, Japan. After meeting Hayao Miyazaki, who was a guest lecturer at the university, Katabuchi began working as a scriptwriter on Miyazaki’s films while still a student. He served as assistant director on 1989’s Kiki’s Delivery Service, and made his directorial debut with the 1996 TV series Famous Dog Lassie.
In This Corner of the World (Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni)
Part of the World Perspectives Strand
Hailed as one of the best Japanese films of the year, this enthralling and powerful animated historical drama is set in the 1930s and ‘40s in Hiroshima and Kure, Japan, roughly straddling the period before and after the atomic bomb struck Hiroshima. It follows a young woman, whose family cultivates edible seaweed, who agrees to an arranged marriage to a young man who works as a civilian for the navy. As the Pacific War approaches, her story charts rationing, bombings and the terrible impact war has on ordinary people.
Contains flashing images.