Grave of the Fireflies [Widescreen Edition] [Sub] (LD)

Release date: 1993-08-18
Suggested retail price: $39.99
Age rating: NR

SKU: ID-2231-CT
UPC: 014381223163 014381223163

Description:
It is post-war Japan, just weeks before American troops arrive for occupation. In the city of Kobe, a boy lies dying in a train station. By his body lies a small metal candy container. A janitor, not sure what to make of its ashy contents, pitches it into the night. As fireflies float softly around it, the ghostly figures of the boy and his little sister emerge...
 Flashback to a short time earlier. Orphaned and homeless from a fire-bomb attack on their city, 14-year-old Seita and his 4-year-old sister Setsuko set out to survive on their own in the face of a society no longer able to help them. Forced into living in an abandoned bomb shelter in the Japanese countryside, they slowly come to realize they cannot escape the hardships of war or even find enough food on which to survive...
 Based on an original story by Akiyuki Nosaka, GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES takes over your emotions in a way that few films—live-action or animated—ever manage to do.
 Tragic—Beautiful—Frightfully true-to-life—It is a testimony to the human spirit that shines ever brighter in the face of adversity.

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