Sunao Katabuchi
In This Corner of the World is a beautifully captured and quietly tragic animation, which succeeds due to how it captures the sadness underneath the mundanity of life in a war-torn country.
Don’t let the inauspicious title fool you; In This Corner of the World has been anything but meek. A box office hit in Japan and a winner at their Academy Awards, its subsequent run on the festival circuit was met with further acclaim.