In This Corner of the World

In 1944, Suzu moves from Hiroshima to her husband’s family in Kure, placing ordinary domestic life inside the pressures of wartime Japan.

Synopsis
The Anime Lad

In 1944, Suzu leaves Hiroshima and moves to Kure to live with her husband’s family. She must learn a new household while war shapes the town around them. The film attends to everyday responsibilities rather than treating civilian life as empty space between historical events. Ordinary routines continue under conditions that make nothing ordinary.

Super Eyepatch Fox

Young Suzu moves from Hiroshima to the town of Kure in 1944 after joining her husband’s family. She adjusts to unfamiliar domestic life while the wider war presses upon the community. The film approaches history through household routines and the everyday effort required to keep living within a violent period.

Gigguku

Suzu arrives in Kure as a young woman learning her place inside a new family. The year is 1944, and wartime pressure reaches every part of ordinary life. The film’s power comes from staying close to daily responsibilities, letting one household make an overwhelming historical period feel personal and immediate!

Father's Basement

Calling the film gentle can hide how firmly its domestic focus works. Suzu moves to Kure in 1944 and enters her husband’s household while war reshapes the surrounding town. By remaining close to ordinary family life, the story makes historical violence felt through the routines civilians still have to maintain.

The story follows a young lady named Suzu Urano, who in 1944 moves to the small town of Kure in Hiroshima to live with her husband's family. Suzu's life is thrown into chaos when her town is bombed during World War II.

What defines it

A gentle, devastating war drama film. Tender and heartbreaking.

Recommendation shape

MoodBleak
BrightBleak
PaceNot enough evidence
StoryNot enough evidence
ActionNot enough evidence
Moral framingNot enough evidence
Cast focusNot enough evidence