Grave of the Fireflies

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

Genre: Animation, Drama, War

Stars: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi, Masayo Sakai, Kozo Hashida

Crew: Isao Takahata (Screenplay), Isao Takahata (Director), Takeshi Seyama (Editor), Nobuo Koyama (Director of Photography), Michio Mamiya (Original Music Composer), Neil Nadelman (Translator)

Country: Japan

Language: 日本語

Studio: Studio Ghibli

Runtime: 89 minutes

Quality: HD

Released: Apr 16, 1988

IMDb: 2.544

Keywords:sibling relationship, hunger, world war ii, wartime, shelter, adult animation, semi autobiographical, anti war, anime, orphan siblings, children in wartime, earnest, empathetic, tragic

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