The staff for the live-action television series adaptation of Fumiyo Kouno’s In This Corner of the World (Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni) manga unveiled the main cast and staff on Saturday.
The manga previously inspired a live-action film in 2007.
Joe Hisaishi (Studio Ghibli films) is composing the music, Nobuhiro Doi (Jūhan Shuttai!, Season of the Sun) is directing the series, and Yoshikazu Otada (Hyokko) is writing the script.
Suzu’s life is thrown into chaos when her town is bombed during World War II.