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Status
Released
Release
2016
Runtime
2h 10m
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"Torn apart by war. Brought together by love."
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…
47 Cast Members
Non
Suzu Hojo (voice)
Yoshimasa Hosoya
Shusaku Hojo (voice)
Natsuki Inaba
Harumi Kuromura (voice)
Minori Omi
Keiko Kuromura (voice)
Daisuke Ono
Tetsu Mizuhara (voice)
Megumi Han
Sumi Urano (voice)
Nanase Iwai
Rin Shiraki (voice)
Shigeru Ushiyama
Entaro Hojo (voice)
Mayumi Shintani
San Hojo (voice)
Tsuyoshi Koyama
Juro Urano (voice)
Masumi Tsuda
Kiseno Urano (voice)
Kanata Omori
Yoichi Urano (voice)
Kotone Tachibana
Kariya (voice)
Hiromi Seta
Chita (voice)
Kikuyo Semi
Domoto (voice)
Nozomu Sasaki
Uncle Kobayashi (voice)
Tomoko Shiota
Aunt Kobayashi (voice)
Hisako Kyoda
Ito Morita (voice)
Mina Meguro
Marina (voice)
Yuine Ikeda
Chizuko (voice)
