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In This Corner of the World (Japanese: この世界の片隅に, Hepburn: Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni) is a manga series written and illustrated by Fumiyo Kōno which ran from 2007 to 2009 in Weekly Manga Action. It follows the life of Suzu Urano, a young bride with her new family living on the outskirts of Kure City during the Second World War. It was adapted into a live-action television special in 2011. An anime theatrical film adaptation was released in 2016. A TV live action series was broadcast on TBS from July to September 2018.
| In This Corner of the World | |
The cover of the first volume of the manga | |
| この世界の片隅に (Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni) | |
|---|---|
| Manga | |
| Written by | Fumiyo Kōno |
| Published by | Futabasha |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Weekly Manga Action |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | January 5, 2007 – January 6, 2009 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Live-action television film | |
| Directed by | Toya Sato |
| Produced by | Tomio Nishimuta Makoto Morikawa Yoshiyuki Watanabe |
| Written by | Taeko Asano |
| Music by | Takeshi Onishida |
| Original network | NTV |
| Released | August 5, 2011 |
| Runtime | 144 minutes |
| Television drama | |
| Directed by | Nobuhiro Doi |
| Produced by | Ayumi Sano |
| Written by | Yoshikazu Okada |
| Music by | Joe Hisaishi |
| Original network | TBS |
| Original run | July 15, 2018 – September 16, 2018 |
| Episodes | 9 |
| Anime film | |
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The story follows Suzu, an innocent young Japanese woman who is a talented illustrator who lives in Hiroshima and Kure, Japan, during World War II. When Suzu was 18, she worked for a small family business when an unknown young man suddenly proposed to her. The man, Shūsaku, lived in Kure as a navy civilian, remembered seeing Suzu ten years ago, with fantastic experiences. Suzu married him, moved to Kure, and joined Shūsaku's family. However, dark clouds of the war against the US were approaching and threatening the ordinary Japanese people.
Kure, a large port city, is located within one hour by local train from Hiroshima. The port is facing Seto Inland Sea and widely known as the largest military base of Imperial Japanese Navy. As Japan was losing to the U.S., living conditions in Japan were getting worse and U.S. military forces were threatening ordinary Japanese people.
In spite of the food shortage, Suzu made efforts to get over the hard conditions during the wartime and also to prepare to mitigate the bombing damage. In 1945, U.S. air raids started and heavily attacked warships and naval facilities and the city areas in Kure. Suzu was wondering if she will return to the hometown (Eba) in Hiroshima, not yet bombed, from the house of Kure. When Suzu was still in Kure, August 6, 1945, the atomic bombing horribly destroyed countless human beings and everything in Hiroshima.
Like a lot of Japanese, Suzu could not avoid inevitable tragedy, brought by the war, and the war deprived Suzu of the precious persons, and also "an irreplaceable part of her body" which is her right hand, for her dominance and reliability towards it. When the war was over nine days after the atomic bombing, the family started the new lives at the time of newborn Japan. Suzu regained the motivation to get through, for her and others, with courage and affection, in one corner of the world.
The manga by Fumiyo Kōno ran from January 5, 2007, to January 6, 2009, in Futabasha's seinen Weekly Manga Action magazine and was collected into three volumes.
It was translated to English by JManga under the title To All the Corners of the World.[1] After JManga closed, Futabasha published the manga digitally and made it available to read on BookWalker, a digital manga store and app. It was later licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment for release in North America with the original title.[2]
It was adapted into a live-action television special which aired August 5, 2011, on NTV, starring Keiko Kitagawa as Suzu Urano, Keisuke Koide as Shūsaku Hōjō, Yūka as Rin Shiroki, Mokomichi Hayami as Tetsu Mizuhara, Ryo as Keiko, Saburō Shinoda as Entarō Hōjō, Yoshie Ichige as San Hōjō, and Mana Ashida as Chizuko Hōjō.[3][4]
The manga was adapted into a 2016 anime film directed by Sunao Katabuchi.[5] An extended version of the film premiered in 2019 and become the longest theatrical animated film to date.
A nine-episode live action series aired from July 15 to September 16, 2018, at 21:00 (JST) on Sundays on TBS. Matsumoto Honoka and Miu Arai played Suzu (adult and young) and Tori Matsuzaka played Shusaku Hojo. Other members of the cast included Kyōko Kagawa,[6] Machiko Ono, Tomorowo Taguchi, Ran Ito, Sairi Ito, Kaho Tsuchimura, and Sayu Kubota. The screenwriter was Yoshikazu Okada (Hiyokko), Nobuhiro Doi directed the series, with music by Joe Hisaishi.[7]
A stage musical written and directed by Ikkō Ueda was announced in August 2023 for a May 2024 premiere.[8] It opened at the Nissay Theatre in Tokyo; the production will then go on a nationwide tour from June to July, with stops at Hokkaido, Yamanashi, Ibaraki, and Osaka, before closing its run at Hiroshima's. Natsumi Kon and Sakurako Ohara share the lead role of Suzu, while Naoto Kaihō and Ryota Murai play Shūsaku and Aya Hirano and Reika Sakurai play Rin. Kei Otozuki plays Keiko.
Music was written and composed by Japanese artist Angela Aki. The lead single from the musical, titled “Kono Sekai no Achikochi ni” was released on February 7, 2024.
Performances of both casts have been recorded. [9]
The manga was a Jury Recommended Work in the 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival,[10] and the following year, it won the Excellence Prize.[11] A "folktale-like" tone has been noted in the work, and Kouno's humour has been praised.[12] It was also awarded the Grand Prize of the 16th Sense of Gender Awards in 2016.[13] The manga had over one million copies in print as of March 2018.[14]
The TV special received a rating of 12.7.[15] The TV series had an average rating of 9.7.[16]
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