Review - Grave of the Fireflies
July 21, 2020
Grave of the Fireflies"(1988) is an animated film that tells the story of two siblings. Akiyuki Nosaka wrote the story, Isao Takahata directed the film and Studio Ghibli animated it.
Through the film, the writer told us the story of the survival of two Japanese siblings Seita and Setsuko during the final months of the SECOND World War. During the Second World War, their house was destroyed along with most of Kobe(a city of Japan) by firebombing. They had escaped unharmed but they lost their mother. They moved in with a distant aunt where they had found nothing but negligence. Even they had to sell the last memento of their mother (silk) for rice. They left that house and moved into an abandoned bomb shelter. There they had a desperate struggle for food. At a point, Setsuko started suffering from malnutrition. The most heartbreaking part of the film is until Seita collected the food, Setsuko's time was over. This dramatic creation has an 8.5 IMDB rating. “Grave of the Fireflies” is an emotional experience so powerful that the viewers had to think of the situation.
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