Grave of the Fireflies

2018
8.5| 1h29m| NR| en
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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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Also starring Kyoko Moriwaki

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WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
HeavenlyCreatures Grave of the fireflies is a heart wrenching inspiring film that may leave you feeling both dead and alive once you have watched it. With a realistic portrayal of the destruction of war and bombing and what it causes and how it tears happy families apart. Grave of the fireflies portrays two beautiful life's torn into one million beautiful pieces. You must watch this film.
jimmy_860801 However, I will never see again. It is a overwhelming experience to watch it when I was just a little boy.
Matt Greene Seriously. I just...I can't even with you. Oh sure, you're absolutely perfect in every possible way, but still...I can't. I honestly wish I'd never watched you and your beautiful, difficult sadness. Ugh. Where's my daughter? I need to hold her. Forever....sigh. Seriously...eff you.
jambalulu This is much more than a story about civilian life in the war ravaged japan of 1944. This is a rough, emotional, gut wrenching tear jerking movie about pride, innocence, nationalism, and the nature of mankind. You will see a realistic depiction of what life was like in japan in the climax of WW2, but more importantly, you will see something in this movie that you never get in your standard war movies, a genre of cinema usually full of action packed films with stories of glorious heroism, good prevailing against evil etc.. In this movie you get to see what war time is really like, not from the eyes of soldiers who bravely fight and die to defend their homelands and their ideals, but from the viewpoint of helpless civilians, specifically two innocent children, caught in the middle of one of the worst situations of human history, in a cruel, cold, hopeless reality where countless innocent, defenseless women and children are left to fend for themselves, brutally massacred by Napalm bombardments (by the good guys mind you) in a world where nobody cares about them and nobody ever comes to their aid. And this is why this movie is so important- because it depicts war as what it truly is - a true hell, in all its tragic horror and twisted pointlessness. You will be overwhelmed by the unbelievably sad story line, you WILL cry your eyes out like a child, you will never want to see this movie ever again afterwards, but you will take to heart an extremely important lesson about war that you will never ever forget for as long as you live. If somehow every person on the planet saw this film our world would have been a much better place to live in. Honest 10 stars.