In the evening, the two children collect a good quantity of fireflies which they release in the cabin. Seita relocates to an abandoned shelter, thinking their leftover money would be enough to survive through the war. In order to pass the time, he takes Setsuko to the seaside and plays with her carefree, which reminds the young boy of the happiness of the past.
Seita thinks the situation is temporary and hopes to hear from her father, a naval officer soon. The aunt begins to reproach Seita: he does nothing to help at the household, demands too much to eat and his sister cries at night, preventing those who work from sleeping. The cohabitation goes smoothly for several days: the widow takes advantage of the provisions, while Seita and Setsuko receive a roof on their head and food. He gives all of it to his aunt, but hides a small tin of fruit drops. On the second day that they stay there, Seita goes out to get the left over supplies which he had buried in the ground to preserve them before the bombing which killed their mother. Having nowhere else to live, Setsuko and Seita go to live with their aunt at Nishinomiya, and write letters to their father. When Seita and Setsuko moved in with their aunt, they immediately shirked their responsibilities. Seita's aunt frustrated by Seita and Setsuko's pickiness She is cremated with several other corpses, and Seita collects a few meager bones in a small box. Setsuko cries bitterly, while Seita tries to entertain her, hiding his own distress. Their mother had been fatally injured in the air raid and is taken to a makeshift hospital which is actually a school, where she dies from burn wounds.
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Learning that his mother has been injured, he leaves Setsuko with a family friend and goes in search of his mother. A man announces through a megaphone the gathering at school for the inhabitants of his neighborhood. Once in safety, and after having let pass the black rain of the bombs that pours on his town, he undertakes to return towards the charred ruins with his little sister. The young boy carries Setsuko on his back, and runs through the streets where people jostle each other in panic he finally flees towards the sea. Setsuko and Seita, the two siblings and protagonists, are left to secure their house and their belongings in order to allow their mother, who suffers from a heart condition, to precede them to the bomb shelter. Seita and Setsuko flee the fire bombings in their hometown, an attack that led to the death of their mother.Īs Seita begins to recount his past trauma, things flash back to the end of World War II, during the Kōbe fire bombings by American B-29 bombers. The film helped popularize the candy Sakuma Drops. Animation historian Ernest Rister compares the film to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and says, "it is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen."īesides this film, the original novel was adapted several times into manga, television dramas, live-action movies and a chorus suite in Japan. Some critics, most notably Roger Ebert, consider it to be one of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made.
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This is the first film produced by Shinchosha Publishing, who hired Studio Ghibli to do the animation production work. Set in the city of Kobe and Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, the film tells the story of two siblings, Seita and Setsuko Yokokawa, and their desperate struggle to survive during the final months of the Second World War. The film stars Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara and Akemi Yamaguchi.īased on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, which was first serialized in the October 1967 issue of All Tribute (オール讀物). It premiered in Japan on April 16, 1988, and was billed as a double-feature with My Neighbor Totoro. ¥590 million ($5 million) Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka) is a feature-length animated film written and directed by Isao Takahata, produced by Studio Ghibli in association with Shinchosha Publishing and distributed by Toho.