Grave of the Fireflies
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: TV-PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 6, 2012
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Sentai
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Isao Takahata | |
Screenwriting by | Isao Takahata | |
Voice: | Tsutomu Tatsumi & J. Robert Spencer |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
The idea that "War is Hell" has almost become something of a climatic cliché, but Takahata's film explores this well-worn slogan from new, exciting and harrowing angles.
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Little White Lies
Rating: 4/4 --
Some movies are such singular achievements that they deserve to be seen at least once by everyone who considers himself or herself to be a lover of film. Grave of the Fireflies falls into that exclusive category.
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ReelViews
Rating: 2.5/4 --
...a well-made and heartfelt drama that's just not as engrossing as it should be.
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Reel Film Reviews
5 stars out of 5 -- Charting their journey through the ruined landscape, Isao Takahata’s powerful anti-war movie is all the more harrowing for the care we invest in its beautifully drawn children.
Total Film
...So filled with painterly beauty that you cannot look away...
Entertainment Weekly
It is not difficult to assume the qualification of Masterpiece that deserves one of the best films ever filmed about the war. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Espinof
[A] still-stunning example. While suffused with near-fantastic elements, FIREFLIES, based on a late-days-of-World-War-II story by Akiyuki Nosaka, mostly uses animation to heighten a harrowing realism.
New York Times
Product Description:
In post-World War II Japan, a janitor finds a deathly ill boy lying beside a metal candy container. The janitor unwittingly tosses the possession into the night, beginning a most unusual tale of survival set amid the atrocities of war in the Animé GRAVE OF FIREFLIES. Brother and sister Seita and Setsuko, ages 14 and 4, flee their disheveled home and deceased parents to make their bid for a new life. Before American troops begin to occupy their country, the children resort to dwelling in an abandoned bomb shelter in the countryside. Though these siblings later get a sense of safety, they realize necessities such as food and water will not be easy to come by.
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- UPC: 814131012623
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