The World War II drama featuring an ordinary family who lived in Kure-city, Hiroshima Prefecture, where was one of the areas destroyed by the atomic bombs, won the Hiroshima Peace Film Award at The 3rd Hiroshima International Film Festival and is scheduled to screen in 14 countries/region in the world, including the UK, France, Germany, and South America.
Katabuchi jokingly said on his Twitter, “(If the money keeps increasing) I might be sent to the moon.”
After collecting a huge 36,224,000 yen (about 321,905 US dollars) from 3,374 supporters by its first crowdfunding project, the anime adaptation film of Fumiyo Kouno’s award-winning manga Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni/In This Corner of the World was released in Japan on November 12 and has become a surprising hit in the Japanese box office.