Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies)

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Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies)

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Hotaru no haka (Grave of the F...

Akemi Yamaguchi, Ayano Shiraishi, Tsutomu Tatsumi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Shannon Conley, Rhoda Chrosite

A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister's struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

Id: 2261668

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  • DrBenway
    June 29, 2009
    DrBenway
    It's interesting here to look at war through another pair of eyes, a Japanese point of view. The fact that Grave Of The Fireflies is based on a true story gives the movie a deeply personal edge. Here's a film that should make the viewer think a little, and is also a welcome chan...( read more)ge from typical war movies - hollow tearjerkers, trumpet-blowing propaganda efforts and muscle-headed shoot 'em ups. Not that there's anything wrong with those. It's not hard to see why it's praised so highly.

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  • flixsterman
    April 18, 2009
    flixsterman
    Heart-wrenching tale of two Japanese war orphans struggling to survive. I was deeply moved by the story and yet, still awestruck by the sheer beauty of the animation art. Highly recommended!
  • kevinjoy98
    November 25, 2008
    kevinjoy98
    Setsuko and Seita are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their father's destiny ...( read more)who was a soldier is unknown the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. When everything is in short supply, they gradually succumb to hunger and their only entertainment is the light of the fireflies.
  • mrpopcorn
    November 20, 2008
    mrpopcorn
    Setsuko: "Why must fireflies die so young?"

    Grave of the Fireflies opens on an evening in 1945, after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II; and in a train station, the young Seita dies alone. The rest of the movie tells us, in flashback, how things have come to th...( read more)is. Seita and Setsuko are two young Japanese children growing up in the waning days of World War II. Much to Seita's pride, their father is in the Japanese navy, and they live fairly content lives in Kobe despite rationing and the other privations of war. When their mother dies from burns suffered during an American fire-bombing raid, a distant aunt takes them in -- and conflict eventually forces the children to try to survive on their own. At first, Seita and his little sister enjoy their idyllic lives in the country, but harsh reality eventually settles in as Seita begins to understand the difficulties of taking care of a young child when both food and compassion are scarce.

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    It's difficult to summarize the emotional impact of this movie suffice to say it's by far the most heart breakingly sad film I've ever seen yet it doesn't once come across as schmaltzy or contrived at any time. The story revolves around a young Japanese boy who, with his younger sister, is orphaned in an American bombing raid during WW2 and their subsequent struggle to survive during times of hardship and rationing. To divulge more would be to spoil. This is prime "thinking man's anime" and yet again proves the the genre has more to offer than big robots and dubious Hentai.
  • Saxia
    October 24, 2008
    Saxia
    I knew that this one was different from 'regular' anime. It's very realistic and is set in wartime Japan. The voice acting of the little girl really stands out, and I almost forgot I was watching an animated film. Beautifull and moving film.
    ...( read more)lbums/t226/mooning_out_the_window/?action=view¤t=dfsd.jpg" target="_blank">Grave of the Fireflies
  • jackthorn42
    December 2, 2009
    jackthorn42
    Really good, like nearly all Miyazaki's movies... but unlike the others, this one is HEAVY, and so incredibly sad and depressing that afterwards I feld wiped out, and haven't ever managed to feel like watching it again. Glad I watched it, it's immensely powerful.
  • agalwk
    December 2, 2009
    agalwk
    Kinda traumatic. One of the best war movies I've seen.
  • pepper9062
    November 29, 2009
    pepper9062
    Wow this movie was very moving.I cried.. been a long time since a movie has done that.
  • rayld02
    November 27, 2009
    rayld02
    Despite the animated nature, it never failed to touch my emotions. Seita, a young boy, together with his little sister Setsuko, came to face struggles during a war in Japan. Their mother died because of huge injuries. The siblings learned to live by themselves in a remote shelter...( read more) at the mountainside. Their struggles went on as the war contnued. In the end, Setsuko died due to malnutrition.

    The movie exhibits a great amount of mixed emotions. Poor Setsuko died in innocence. Poor little thing.

    The moral of the story, learn to value small things; for you can never tell when they will be gone. Like the fireflies in the movie, they give hope, the light.

    One of the greatest war films ever made, and one of the most dramatic.
  • kluroda01
    November 23, 2009
    kluroda01
    the most brilliant anime.... but the most depressing and sad movie ever made!! i cried a bit on this one
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