In the typhoon swept through South China, the high temperature sauna day tested the bad weather of the northern compatriots, Xiaobian recommended a refreshing warm animation for everyone -
"In This Corner of the World"
"In This Corner of the World" received critical acclaim after its release in Japan, and also surpassed "Your Name." Won the Best Animation Award at the 40th Academy Awards in Japan and was also selected as the first anime of the year in Japan for audience satisfaction.
So far, "In the Corner of the World", which has won as many as 26 awards, is neither from the hands of Master Hayao Miyazaki nor produced by the animation genius Makoto Shinkai, so if you have doubts, then understand these must-know backstories before watching the movie
<h1>01。 It's not Your Name.
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"In This Corner of the World" is a realistic and peaceful film. Because the promotion of the film mentioned that "the box office exceeded "Your Name", and it was released in the same year, many people will watch this movie with the mentality of "see how you surpass "Your Name".
The film is not too tear-jerking, nor is it about crossing, exchanging bodies, and finding lost love. On the contrary, the story is more like a collection of fragments depicting different daily lives in Japan during the war, such as cooking, laundry, supplying daily necessities, etc. That seem bland but hide surging emotions, so please watch it as if you were watching a small story
<h1>02。 World War II Background A small story in the big times
As a set of films set in World War II, compared with the "fixed" plot of violent slashing and killing in war, "In this corner of the world" pays more attention to telling small stories under the big times; describing a corner under the war, the daily life of civilians.
The heroine of the film, Ling, is an ordinary girl who left her hometown to marry from Hiroshima to Kure City, 20 kilometers away, and when World War II broke out, she took on the responsibility of taking care of her family until the end of the war. The plot of the film does not have the sadness of crying or the thrill of the climax; but the director works with sincerity, the depiction of the characters is delicate, and the story has a faint sadness but does not lose warmth.
The characters in the play strive to survive in the era of material scarcity, and the cruelty and ruthlessness of the war are just in contrast to the people's suffering, with a simple and aesthetic painting style, let people harvest a touch of "born in a chaotic world, happiness is to find each other in the corner of this world..."
<h1>03。 The director of this film is Katabuchi Tsutomu
Born in 1960 in Osaka, Japan, Katabuchi has worked on several animated films and directed more than a dozen of them. In 1989, he cooperated with animation master Hayao Miyazaki to shoot and produce "Witch House Rush", and in recent years, his own works include "Utopian New Child and The Magic of a Thousand Years", "Black Reef" and so on.
In this film, director Naomoto Katabuchi spent more than 5 years collecting information in order to accurately reproduce the scenes of the Second World War. The picture that everyone sees is not imaginary, but the director visits Hiroshima to restore the appearance of Hiroshima before the atomic bomb to the big screen with photos and residents' memories.
Xiaobian found a few animations compared with the real scene photos of that year:
1944 Akira Yokokawa
Showa 8 Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Award Hall
When you see these contrasting pictures, do you feel very similar? This also reflects the director's intentions and the film's highly exquisite restoration.
You can look forward to how the scenes at that time are drawn according to the real thing in the movie, and they reappear in front of everyone's eyes one by one
<h1>04。 Small cost production started with crowdfunding
"In This Corner of the World" takes World War II as the theme, but focuses on describing the details of a small person's life, and was not paid attention to when looking for investors at first, because there were not too many "breaking points" in the works, so they found another way to solve it.
Director Katabuchi Established a Crowdfunding Plan three years ago, published his ideas on the Japanese Crowdfunding Network, made the preliminary manuscripts, film content, etc., and successfully raised more than 40 million yen for the film after two periods of crowdfunding.
The end of the film lists the names of the fundraisers, which is also a thank you from the production team to the participants in the crowdfunding.
The best interpretation of this film is that netizens on Douban borrowed a short poem by Abbas:
This road
Years ago
It was abandoned
But wildflowers seemed
Nothing