Free screening of WWII film at Nisei Veterans Memorial Center on June 14

The Nisei Veterans Memorial Center will host a free screening of the award-winning animated film “In This Corner of the World” on Saturday, June 14, as part of its Monthly Movie Matinee series. The film begins at 1:30 p.m., with doors opening at 1 p.m., at the Stanley Izumigawa Resource Center, 665 Kahului Beach Road in Kahului.

Admission is free, but reservations are required. To register, visit nvmc.org or call 808-244-6862.

Directed by Sunao Katabuchi and based on the manga by Fumiyo Kōno, “In This Corner of the World” (2016) follows the story of Suzu, a quiet and ordinary—if not a bit clumsy and daydreaming—girl growing up in the outskirts of the city of Hiroshima in the mid-1930s.

She loves drawing sketches with pencils — a hobby she is good at. Following her parents’ arrangement in 1943, 18-year-old Suzu is married to a young man living in Kure, a neighboring city with a large naval base, where he works as a civilian secretary for the military tribunal.

There, she faces a new life, a new family, as well as many new challenges and hardships, particularly with the worsening living conditions brought on by the Pacific War. Yet Suzu manages to find happiness and peace in her daily life.

The film is in Japanese with English subtitles and includes graphic war scenes that may not be suitable for children.

The screening supports NVMC’s mission “to ignite the potential in people by inspiring them to find the hero in themselves through the legacy of the Nisei Veterans”—second-generation Japanese Americans who served in World War II.

To learn more, visit www.nvmc.org.