Animation · Drama · War
Grave of the Fireflies
Avg rating 9.1 / My rating TBC
1988 · Directed by Isao Takahata · With Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara
Film info
- Runtime
- 1h 29m · 89 min
- IMDb
- 8.5 / 10 (383,582 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 100% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 94 / 100
- TMDB
- 8.5 / 10 (audience, 6,846 votes)
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About this film
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.
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