Based on the manga of the same name by Fumiyo Kono, In This Corner of the World proves, in spades, the empathetic power of film; and while not an easy watch, it is utterly worth watching. Strewn with disaster, the film is intricate in its depiction of wartime Japan, and painstaking in its approach to context; supposedly attributing its myriad details to facts and real incidents of the lost townscape of pre-war Hiroshima.

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