Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni TV Special Announced

Keiko Kitagawa (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift) will star in a live-action TV special based on Fumiyo Kono’s award-winning historical drama manga Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni (In a Corner of This World). The 2007-2009 manga revolves around a newlywed woman who struggles to get by in a suburb of Hiroshima during WWII. Kono’s earlier WWII manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni) is distributed in English by Last Gasp Publishing. The TV special will air on August 5.

Source: Anime News Network