Jessie This was an amazing movie. It was also a sad movie. A very very very sad movie. It was the ending that got me. A mother had lost her arm and had shards of glass on half of her body. She was with her child. The mother died and the kid was trying to get the bugs away from her body. I hate his movie. It was a very good movie. Don't watch this movie unless you want to be sad.

LightKola I was expecting something a little different from this film. More accurately, I wasn't expecting something in particular but I was still surprised by the movie.What I liked : the art in general (drawings, colours, music, sound effects, voice acting). I truly found the movie to be visually stunning and I liked the general atmosphere that is very poetic, sometimes melancholic, sometimes light, sometimes vibrant or even tragic. For the most part I also enjoyed the dialogue, there was quite a few funny moments, not necessarily in a pure comedic sense but often more like something between funny and touching. It was also interesting to simply witness what these people's live looked like during that time. I didn't know or had forgotten that Japan had been the prey to this constant bombardment during the war and it was a good reminder that civilians pay a dear cost during a time of war.. There was a few scenes that managed to touch me on a deeper level, those felt strong made me more invested in the story. What didn't work for me : the lack of a strong plot, its development and the shallowness of my emotional involvement in character(s). I get that it's not the kind of work that necessarily needs a thick plot, plot twists and stuff like that. Unfortunately, I didn't relate with the characters enough to overlook that aspect. Actually, the only character that I truly cared about was the main character Suzu, and even then, the feeling was not as consistent as I would have liked. I would have enjoyed seeing more of her childhood friend, Rin I believe, but it didn't happen. I'm not saying that I didn't care about what happened to other characters at all, but I wasn't as invested as I'd wish I was. Thus, at several points I felt that the movie was too long and I got a bit bored. Overall I enjoyed the experience and I do not regret watching it at all. If you like slice of life genre, poetic stories with beautiful visuals carried by an endearing main character, this might very well be the film for you, maybe not, watch it and find out. Verdict: 6.9/10. This rating isn't an attempt to evaluate the actual objective value of the film but merely reflects my own enjoyment of the work.

Harhaluulo54 Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni is a combination of anti-war propaganda and slice of life silliness. The slice of life side is the other of the 2 Japanese do. They options being "dull comedy" and "cultural shock". Except if you have ever heard of Japan before, the cultural shock won't apply because this movie doesn't tell anything new about war nor Japan. One would assume at this point that the movie relies on its strong characters. Would. What this movie does is make 2 separate entities with 2 different characters.. who happen to be a couple. The man goes to the anti- war arc which this movie has fever focus onto, and the woman, our main character, gets to live in the typical and boring slice of life settings - which we the viewers are doomed to follow for over 2 hours.Unfortunately I have pretty much ran out of things to say already. I can only repeat the caption of this review. The movie turns into a yelling and melodrama sh!tshow because instead of writing anything worth of seeing, the production team relied to the seiyuu team whose job was to sound emotional and sad and cry because oh we in such pain here. I am not very impressed by this movie. Even such mediocre Ghibli movies as Hotaru no Haka did a better job capturing the war. Even if that movie also relied on feels, at least it had something worth giving a damn about unlike in this movie which best part was the ending song - and that partly because it confirmed that the movie was finally over and no one would cry without any reason anymore.

Red-Barracuda I have previously seen the harrowing Japanese anime Grave of the Fireflies (1988) which depicted the horrors of World War II on Japanese civilians. This brilliant film remains the only Studio Ghibli film to not be distributed by Disney – it was too disturbing for them. With In This Corner Of The World we have a new take on the subject of life in wartime Japan. While this one did not have the impact of the earlier movie for me, it was still a very impressive bit of work. It specifically follows a family in the year leading up to the 6th of August 1945 when the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The action, however, takes place in Kure, a city nearby.The war is very much in the periphery of the story. Ominously hovering in the background with battleships silently moving into the harbour, military police active on the ground and air raids occurring regularly by the American military. While the horrors of war do escalate, much of the run-time is devoted to the family drama and this is perhaps the one weakness of the film, as the domestic drama isn't entirely compelling and a bit meandering. It means that we don't get as involved with the characters as much as we should and it could perhaps have been trimmed down a little at the very least. However, this negative has to be offset by the positive in the way that the story does examine the lives of ordinary people during this time. We also have the constant advance of time towards what we know to be that fateful August day and knowing what is to come actually generates even more tension than not knowing. When the moment finally arrives, it is understated in a way that is incredibly sinister. A silent white flash, a tremor and then a huge odd-looking cloud in the distance. It is a far cry from the usual way in which nuclear strikes are depicted in films but its very distance and unspectacular presentation creates a curious melancholic and depressing feeling which was quite powerful I thought. The artwork throughout is beautiful – this is a film which could easily pass itself off as a Ghibli product – and it doesn't pull its punches when it depicts some of the horrors of the aftermath of the 'new bomb'. Overall, this is another powerful and artistically strong bit of animation from Japan.