the grave of the fireflies full movie english sub

Eventually, Seita realizes it is time to leave. In wartime their relatives are not kind or generous, and after their aunt sells their mother’s kimonos for rice, she keeps a lot of the rice for herself. The boy and his sister must find a place to stay, and food to eat. “Grave of the Fireflies” is a powerful dramatic film that happens to be animated, and I know what the critic Ernest Rister means when he compares it to “Schindler’s List” and says, “It is the most profoundly human animated film I’ve ever seen.” But these films exist within safe confines they inspire tears, but not grief. Recent animated features such as “ The Lion King,” “ Princess Mononoke” and “ The Iron Giant” have touched on more serious themes, and the “ Toy Story” movies and classics like “Bambi” have had moments that moved some audience members to tears. Since the earliest days, most animated films have been “cartoons” for children and families. “Grave of the Fireflies” is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation. The first shot of the film shows Seita dead in a subway station, and so we can guess Setsuko’s fate we are accompanied through flashbacks by the boy’s spirit. He does what he can to find food, and to answer Setsuko’s questions about their parents. For a time an aunt takes them in, but she’s cruel about the need to feed them, and eventually Seita finds a hillside cave where they can live. Their home, neighbors, schools are all gone. Their father is serving in the Japanese navy, and their mother is a bomb victim Seita kneels beside her body, covered with burns, in an emergency hospital.

Seita is a young teenager, and his sister Setsuko is about 5. “Grave of the Fireflies” (1988) is an animated film telling the story of two children from the port city of Kobe, made homeless by the bombs. In a Japanese residential neighborhood, made of flimsy wood and paper houses, there is no way to fight the fires.

After they hit, there is a moment’s silence, and then they detonate, spraying their surroundings with flames. These bombs, longer than a tin can but about as big around, fall to earth trailing cloth tails that flutter behind them they are almost a beautiful sight. In the waning days of World War II, American bombers drop napalm canisters on Japanese cities, creating fire storms.

The grave of the fireflies full movie english sub