Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies  is a 1988 film out by Shinchosha, animated by Studio Ghibli and directed by Isao Takahata. The film is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Akiyuki Nosaka autobiographical.

Some critics, including Roger Ebert, regard the movie as one of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made. The film is often compared to Steven Spielberg'sSchindler's List. [2]



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The film is set in the last days of the Second World War, and revolves around two orphaned children: Seita (清太) and his younger sister Setsuko (節子). They have lost their mother at the bombardment of Kobe, and their father is killed during his service in the Imperial Japanese Navy. They are now forced to survive together in the famine-stricken country.
 * 2 Cast
 * 2.1 Japanese version
 * 2.2 English version
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 title reference
 * 3.2 Production
 * 3.3 Edition
 * 3.4 Music
 * Live-action version 3.5
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external links

The film begins at the station in Sannomiya, where Seita is located. He dies of hunger and exhaustion. A bit later the concierge of the station along Seita's stuff, He searches and finds. a box containing the ashes of Setsuko. When he throws away, come out of the box the spirits of Seita and Setsuko, a cloud of fireflies. The two spirits then via flashbacks tell the story of their life in Japan during the war:

After their mother has been killed in the bombardment, the two live with an aunt. The next day, Seita goes back to the home of their parents and digs what stocks on which he had hidden there for the bombing. He gives everything to his aunt, except a small box with fruit candies. This box is a regular object into the rest of the movie. Because their aunt go mistreating them, Seita and Setsuko live in an old air-raid shelter. They soon hit back by their food supply, which is forced to steal food from local farmers Seita. He is caught and therefore cannot get enough food to maintain both themselves and Setsuko. After their father in a panic, Seita withdraws all the money from his mother's bank account. He buys of this food, but is too late to save back to Setsuko yet. Seita cremeert her, and save her ashes in the can. This he keeps with him, just as the picture of his father, until his own death on september 21, 1945.

At the end of the film we see the spirits of Seita and Setsuko again, but now dressed in neat clothes and in perfect health. Together they look out over the contemporary Kobe. ==Cast[ Edit] == ===Japanese version<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===English version<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Title Reference<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Japanese word hotaru can refer to both a single Firefly as to multiple. Firefly may refer to:
 * Tsutomu Tatsumi... Seita
 * Ayano Shiraishi... Setsuko
 * Yoshiko Shinohara... mother
 * Akemi Yamaguchi... aunt
 * Rhoda Chrosite -Setsuko
 * Amy Jones -Aunt
 * J. Robert Spencer -Seita
 * Veronica Taylor -Mother

===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the voices of Seita and Setsuko children of about the same age as these characters were cast. Initially the producers found the four-year girl who did the voice of Setsuko too young. It was therefore decided to let her take her first text, and to this end to adjust the animation instead of the other way around. Because the producers were not used in this way to work, his Setsuko's lips but rarely visible at times when she talks. ===Edition<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was initially released in the cinema at the same time with Hayao Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro, also produced by Studio Ghibli. Commercially was the cinema Edition a failure. The film was aimed at children and their parents, but the depressive undertone of the movie got scared off many visitors. My Neighbor Totoro was a success.
 * Fireflies which Seita and Setsuko to alleviate shelter.
 * A metaphor for Seita and Setsuko itself.
 * In the movie asks Setsuko wondering why fireflies had to die so young. This metaphorical could stand for the loss of their mother.
 * Kamikaze planes and pilots: Setsuko observes that kamikaze aircraft flying Firefly
 * Cluster Bombs

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was also released elsewhere in the world. In South Korea ran the edition were afraid that the authorities there delayed the film precisely the role of Japan in World War II would the Ditto dalliance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="174" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Grave of the Fireflies is the only film from Studio Ghibli where the Walt Disney Company not the publication rights on property for the United States. This is because the film was not produced by Tokuma Shoten, but by Shinchosha. Instead, it was Grave of the Fireflies released in the United States by Central Park Media. ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Unlike many other films of Studio Ghibli, the music in the film from a number of well-known classical pieces by composers such as Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Alessandro Marcello, Joseph Haydn, Mozart, and Boccherini.Pianist and harpsichordist Michio Mamiya Japanese Chamber music composed for the film. The song "Home Sweet Home" was performed by Amelita Galli-Curci. ===Live-action version<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2005 NTV produced a live-action version of the film as a reminder of the end of the second world war, in that year, exactly 60 years ago. The film revolves also to the two children who try to survive in the last days of the war, but is told from the perspective of their niece (the daughter of their aunt). The well-known Japanese actress Nanako Matsushima in the film plays the aunt. The film is about 2 hours and 28 minutes long. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Grave of the Fireflies In 1989 won the Special award at the Blue Ribbon Awards.
 * In 1994 the film won both the Animation Jury Award if the Rights of the Child Award at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival.