Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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…
- japan
- husband wife relationship
- world war ii
- hiroshima
- japan
- family relationships
- romance
- based on manga
- adult animation
- seinen
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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)
- Directed
- Sunao Katabuchi
- Written
- Sunao Katabuchi
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 646 ratings
- Studio
- GENCO, MAPPA
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
