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Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni
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Kaze Tachinu
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Both are WW2 era movies from the perspective of mainland Japan exposing the human struggle and the reality that war is fought by people, each person has their own story and whether soldier or not, their own battle to fight. Lives are lost, and the human condition is all at once sad, maddening, frightening, desperate, yet meaningful. War is fought because there is something worth fighting for, the war may be wicked but the people still human; to stand up to a challenge and lose is better than to have never stood for anything at all, this is their humanity.
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Both movies have starting setting in Pre - War Imperial Japan and both have tell us about bitter struggle of Japan in WW2.
When Kaze Tachinnu's MC is a Aeroplane Designer that designed Japan's greatest war machine in 1941, and tell us about some ambitions. Kono Sekai Katasumi ni is more about simple and common woman, simple and common life.
When Kaze Tachinu focused to Jiro's ambition to design greatest airplane and Japanese pre-war condition (started from Great Earthquake 1923), Kono Sekai Katasumi ni main theme is common people life in Great East Asia War.
But they share some great traits, like detailed setting about Pre-war Imperial Japan,
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