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In This Corner Of The World

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By Yati Hankar

Now that the world is on hold. Days feels longer and boredom stretches out to this extend that you’ve binged watched almost every latest series and movies and dramas and what not! So like any of you, I started piecing my life with throwbacks and again stumble upon this not so forgotten master piece of 2016.

IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD.

It is a Japanese animated war time film directed by Sunao Katabuchi. The film is a brief piece of world war 2, based on the manga written by Fumiyo Kono.

It circles around the life of a young woman named Suzu, who is very dreamy and naive who loves to draw. She along with her parents and siblings stays in a small town of Hiroshima called Eba. In 1943, Suzu being an 18 year old was arranged to be married to an unknown man named Shusaku, the movie leaves out the deal of ideologies and politics during the war thus the story is solely based on suzu’s prespective. A young common girl. Suzu’s husband turned out to be  a very kind man who comes from Kure city, 15 miles away from Hiroshima. the story gradually unfolds the daily life of common people  during the war and how they manage to cope up with it or manage to survive it also shows how suzu lives like a regular Japanese house wife in her husband’s house.

The movie also highlights the food shortage struggle and how Japanese people built caves to survive bombs. The turn of events during the war led suzu to lose her right hand and her niece Harumi. Despite all the tragedies Suzu faced, she managed to outgrow it but when a big blast in Hiroshima occurred killing many, the emperor of Japan announces the end of war by declaring surrender to allied powers which leaves Suzu in despair remembering her loses. |

This was just a bit of the movie; you can watch it on Netflix. Where I am very fond of Animes which provide a taste of common life, this movie will not disappoint you but will give you a warm nostalgic feeling and has a deep meaning in it. But at the same time it’s not preachy and shallow. And so simply put, in this corner of the world is a delight watch.

Picture Courtesy: @NYTimes.com

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Keiji Fujiwara

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By Simran Kaur

Shinchan, a japanese show , helps us to forget our stress,tensions and anger and laugh out loud. The show is about a five year old naughty but cute boy named Shinchan Nohara, who does weird activities and troubles his family and friends.I can relate my mom with shin chan’s mom , Infact i feel like i am watching my childhood . This cartoon is a great escape from the real life. Sometimes life is so stressful that we need a escape. Shin Chan is the best show i’ve ever seen . It’s closely related to the daily life of a common man. It has satires on life, comedy and parody. It can be viewed by all age groups.

Voice Actor of Crayon Shin Chan’s Father Tragically Passes Away At 55 Years of age. ( Keiji Fujiwara ) . The show has now been dubbed in 30 languages, which aired in 45 countries, has over 1007 episodes and 26 full-length movies. More than 275 million copies of the manga have been sold worldwide in 20 years. A Hindi dub of the anime started airing in India on Hungama TV on June 19, 2006, Later in Tamil dub and Telugu dub.

There were complaints from parents over the main character’s behavior and the attitudes exhibited towards elders on the show, both of which were seen as a negative influence on children.The series was banned in October 2008 by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting ( India )on account of heavy nudity.

Before the ban, the Hindi version of Crayon Shin-chan gained up to 60% of the channel’s market share. After many requests from fans, the Indian Censor boards, heavily edited the content and revived the Indian dub on March 27, 2009.The jokes were edited to be more family-friendly, and all mentions of alcohol were replaced by mentions of juice.

Scenes that have been cut include instances of Shin-chan performing either the Mr. Elephant dance or the  butt-shaking  dance, and instances of Nene’s mother beating up a stuffed toy in anger. Hiroshi Nohara , is a loving father to his two children, and ultimately a devoted husband. While he is the family breadwinner, he hands the reins of finance over to his wife, who maintains a totalitarian level of control on family spending.

He is a stereotypical Japanese salaryman, working eight-hour days, enduring overstuffed trains, enjoying the occasional nightlife, and giving every bit of his take home pay to his wife every month. He is a quiet, reasonable person, who is almost always invited by his boss or a worker, to drink beers, were he almost always gets drunk.He used to smoke a lot, when Misae was pregnant by Himawari, he quit smoking as a favor for her.

Fujiwara , was also famously the Japanese voice actor who dubbed Robert Downey Jr’s voice as Iron Man/Tony Stark. Having fought a long battle with cancer, Mr Fujiwara was well known within the Japanese animation industry for not only lending his voice in the popular Japanese cartoon, but for voicing many other popular characters in Japanese animation too .

In August 2016, Air Agency announced that he was going on hiatus in order to undergo medical treatment for a then-unspecified illness.He officially resumed work in June 2017. Fujiwara died of cancer on April 12, 2020.