Umbrella Entertainment has announced that it will release the Japanese animated wartime drama IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD on 7 December 2017 in Australian cinemas.
The acclaimed Sunao Katabuchi film, based on the manga of the same name by Fumiyo Kōno, made its Australian debut at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August, coinciding with the US release of the animated film.
Set in the 1930s and 1940s, it follows Suzu (voiced by Non), an innocent young women from Hiroshima who moves to nearby Kure when she marries. An enthusiastic sketch artist, we watch her innocence and lust for life ebb and sometimes fade as the realities of the war creep into her small town life.
The film uses terrific levels of detail to reconstruct life in and around Hiroshima before the bombing, giving new life to the many people who died during the tragic attack during the Second World War.
Praising the innovative art style and the slice-of-life approach to a wartime scenario in our review, we concluded that it was “a gorgeously drawn testament to the endurance of hope in adversity.”
