In This Corner of the World tells the story of a girl with the power to see beauty in the everyday, capture it with a pencil and paper, and transform events into adventures. Suzu Urano is growing up in 1930s Japan; her parents have arranged for her to marry a young clerk who works at the naval base in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture. She loses herself in her own daydreams as easily as she does on the way home. This talent of hers sets the tone for this delicate, dreamlike film. WWII and its atomic bombs (or “new bombs”) have long been a fixture of Japanese cinema, spanning a wide range of genres and perspectives. But In This Corner of the World is less interested in the war itself than it is in its consequences, which it shows with a yearning for joy that verges on the obstinate. Most of all, it notices the lovely trivialities of civilian life: frugal wartime recipes, herons, white bunnies and the indefatigable will to live on. This fragile yet powerful gem of a film continues to resonate long after the closing credits.