Haunting, Dreamlike 'In This Corner Of The World' Depicts Hiroshima, Before And After
In this beautifully rendered, meticulously researched anime, we view the bustling Japanese city through the eyes of a young daydreamer whose life is shattered by the inconceivable.
On the 72nd anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese anime In This Corner of the World lives in history but speaks more to the current moment than any of us might have dared to fear.
The "corner of the world" in question is Hiroshima's port city of Kure. It's the mid-'40s, a time period that includes the sustained U.S. and British naval attacks on the Japanese fleet stationed there, and culminates in the dropping of the atomic bomb. The film follows a
