Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni (In a Corner of this World)

[Verso Sciolto]

The film received another award and round-about praise from Takeshi, who used its qualities as a lesson for Live Action film creators. According to ANN: Beat Takeshi Discusses In This Corner of the World's Tokyo Sports Film Award Win.

Over 1.66 million tickets had already been sold, by that time, and it had maintained a position, landing on #9, for its fifteenth consecutive week, in the Eiga.com top 10, before dropping out of this ranking for the domestic market, last weekend. For the last entry in the top ten, Feb. 20, it was noted that the number of screens had, by then, been increased to 301, compared to 68 at the time of its premiere.

Add: Animation of the Year, 2017, at the 40th Annual Japan Academy Prize

Edit. Posted April 8, 2017:
Seven Seas Proudly Presents IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD Manga Omnibus. To be released in the Fall of 2017.
Probably a print edition.

[l.kostas]

Shout! Factory, Funimation to Screen In This Corner Of The World in U.S. Theaters.

Interview: In This Corner of the World Director Sunao Katabuchi

[Flower]

Oh ho? Good news indeed!

[Verso Sciolto]

... also heads up that the film will screen in competition at this year's Annecy.

First showing on Monday, 12 June:
https://www.annecy.org/programme:2017-06-12
https://www.annecy.org/programme:en/index:film-20170938

[Verso Sciolto]

Discs, September 15, 2017

[Infinite Zenith]

That's even better news than the news of screenings So, the standard Edition Blu-Ray is probably the most economical, at 4800 yen: the ultimate edition is 9800 yen, and the DVDs are 3800 yen.

[Verso Sciolto]

Originally Posted by Infinite Zenith

That's even better news than the news of screenings So, the standard Edition Blu-Ray is probably the most economical, at 4800 yen: the ultimate edition is 9800 yen, and the DVDs are 3800 yen.

... and all versions of the main film on these physical media come with Japanese close captioning for the hearing impaired (Probably "standard" Japanese rather than text approximations of the local dialects' phonetics) as well as English subtitles.

[l.kostas]

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/dai...titles/.116879

YouTube

https://youtu.be/lcv8mj4ArGs

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The special-edition two-disc Blu-ray Disc release will include a case with illustration by assistant director Chie Uratani, special inner jacket, and 100-page booklet for 9,800 yen (about US$88). The main disc will feature the film with Japanese and English subtitles, pilot film, crowdfunding supporter event's "Fuyu no Kioku" episode, promotional videos, and "Suzu no Arigatō." The bonus disc will include 240 minutes of extra content, including making-of, "Non, Suzu ni Naru" interview and making-of, soundtrack live event, Nerima Anime Carnival 2015 talk event, Kure City Museum talk event, premium preview event, release talk event, and stage greeting videos.

[l.kostas]

In This Corner of the World Film's English-Subtitled Trailer Streamed

[Verso Sciolto]

The good news keeps on coming, for this production. In This Corner of the World Anime Film Sells 2 Million Tickets in Japan. Another milestone. Congratulations to the creators.

Perhaps a bit of interesting trivia to mention here too. Since last week, the manga is being re-serialised by Hiroshima based newspaper Chugoku Shimbun. Printed in its supplemental morning edition Select, PDF (Links are for Select subscription advertisements with images and a brief intro.) Image of the print paper as posted on Twitter by a reader.

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Hiroden bus with film poster "wraps" on the side and back, from another Twitter feed.

[Flower]

Originally Posted by l.kostas

In This Corner of the World Film's English-Subtitled Trailer Streamed

Gotta admit - the trailer looked really good!

Anticipating the movie quite a bit here....

[monir]

Yes, the trailer was nice! I got to admit, however, that movies from that era is painful to watch. I know I was crying my eyes out when I watched Grave of the Fireflies and stayed sad for days.

[Verso Sciolto]

Originally Posted by monir

Yes, the trailer was nice! I got to admit, however, that movies from that era is painful to watch. I know I was crying my eyes out when I watched Grave of the Fireflies and stayed sad for days.

I've been impressed with how little of the content has been revealed in trailers beyond the broad scope of the project and also impressed with how little of the actual story had been discussed in this thread ahead of broader release outside Japan and outside a few overseas festivals and plane rides. By now everyone with an interest in the film knows the historical background and also the current Japanese climate in which this film was created. To belabour a point... and aware of the figure of speech.. the subtitled trailer not only looks good but, as important, sounds good too. This really is a film better seen with the original sound of the recreated ordinary voices from a specific time and place... imo. A place and time best not revisited except though a medium like this.

Originally Posted by Verso Sciolto

... also heads up that the film will screen in competition at this year's Annecy...

... where it picked up a Jury Award.
https://www.annecy.org/festival/awards

Premature archive link, for future reference:
https://www.annecy.org/about/archive.../award-winners

[Ulin]

Today was the premier in Spain and the movie was as good as I hoped. Suzu is a wonderful character and her VA, although at the beginning was a bit strange as she didn't seem like a child, in the important scenes does a very good job.

[Last Sinner]

Duly noted. I've wanted to see this one a lot. Sadly it seems it won't have any screening in Australia at all until someone decides to pick it up for DVD/BD release. Pity since we got Your Name very quickly compared to most countries and also had a run for A Silent Voice.

Oh well, until September, I guess.

[abc0716]

Watched it at cinema on yesterday afternoon. Quite a rare WW2-based media on Imperial Japan's POV.

Decided to watched this movie ahead of new Spiderman movie since it has lesser screenings & being screen at fewer cinemas..

[Verso Sciolto]

Originally Posted by abc0716

Watched it at cinema on yesterday afternoon. Quite a rare WW2-based media on Imperial Japan's POV.

... with the perspective on offer one of the interesting bigger picture aspects of this film.

[Verso Sciolto]

At 08:12 the film was included in the broadcast for the commemoration on August 6, 2017.


黙祷 終わり

[Dop]

The UK Blu-Ray came out this week and I've just watched it. What a beautiful film. If I were to compare it with other anime movies i've seen set in the same period, it's not a grotesque like "Barefoot Gen", and it's far from a despair-fest like "Grave of the Fireflies".

Not so much about the war as such, but more about the ordinary people left 'back home', especially the women. While the story, considering its setting, has very much a cloud hanging over it, I'd describe it as being very much a 'keep calm and carry on' kind of story.

Do yourself a favour and watch it.

[Haak]

Holy crap, why did I ever delay watching this film? What an emotional and beautiful film.

It was a strangely intensive yet engaging watch. The pace is very slow but very very deliberate. It felt like the film lasted an eternity and it's probably the best feeling of eternity I've ever felt. If the story had even the slightest hiccups in any of its multiple skits then it would've been boring but the quality of the storytelling is just sublime from start to finish.

Spoiler for spoilers:

The first half is a very sweet story about a girl adapting to a daunting arranged marriage and a new life but then the second half rolls on and gets more and more intensive as the war draws towards her life. The huge variety of emotions are so well rendered: The everyday fear and hardship, the grief and trauma, the strain on relationships, and finally the the big blow when the loss is announced and she feels that all the crap she endured was for nothing. Credit where it's due, the voice acting was pretty incredible. I didn't like Suzu's voice at first because it didn't really fit for a child but thankfully her child years are only the introduction and most of the story is spent in her late teens/early twenties. For the most part, Non's voice acting was very down to earth and convincingly "airhead"-like without being moe (which I suppose was the danger thankfully avoided) and Non was really amazing when it came to the darker moments.

I found it so cruel that Suzu was never able to make the most of her talent in drawing. She was so good at it yet never had the opportunity to pursue it more in earnest and then it's finally sealed away for good when she loses her hand. This film was so good in portraying those everyday tragedies, mainly because it never took the easy route in reaching for feel good solutions - just the depressing and suffocating reality that she would simply have to endure it. The story also did well in making sure that these tragedies didn't feel insular: you got to see the tragedies from the people around her too. The woman who lost her house to a bombing raid. The mother who didn't even recognise her dying son until it was too late. The people who kept mistaking Suzu for a loved one in their desperation. Suzu's sister (and everyone else) painfully unaware of her radiation poisoning yet perceptive to know that something is deeply wrong with her condition (Also great acting by Han Megumi).

It was a bit weird at the end when the film suddenly shifted to the perspective of the little girl but it was nice to see her adopted after seeing her endure such a shocking and hideous ordeal. And it was nice message that despite everything Suzu endured, she was still the same kind girl she was back when she shared watermelon with the stranger girl at the beginning. Or was it the same girl and it was a premonition? They also shout back to the "ogre" that "kidnapped" Suzu and Shusaku as well. A bit of a cheeky curveball thrown there at the end.

All in all, a brilliant film.