The best Nozomu Sasaki’s war movies

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…

Kayoko is a young girl in 1940, just starting first grade. She's a bit of a crybaby, which is no secret to those around her. She loves playing with friends and singing cute schoolyard chants, and occasionally having fun with her three older brothers. Her mother is pregnant, and so she looks forward to being a big sister, only partially understanding the responsibility that might bring. Meanwhile, the war effort is growing, and it`s only the natural thing to do to be patriotic and support the country...Kayoko goes so far as to contribute her favorite dolly, whose materials could help build explosives. Time passes, and as she grows older, Kayoko sees how the war has affected her life and those around her. Nothing can prepare her for 1945, however, and the bleak times that are soon to come.

During World War II, Suzu, an eighteen-year-old girl living in Hiroshima, Japan, gets married through arrangement and moves to Kure city where a Japanese major naval base was established. She manages to keep daily life for her new family despite the war situation is getting worse. One day, she is lost the way to home and happens to meet the same age girl Rin in a red-light district. Suzu and Rin have become friends but Rin has some secrets that Suzu is worried about. And moreover, the war does not allow them as is.