[Rev] Grave of Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka) - 1998

Novel by Nosaka Akiyuki
Produced by Studio Ghibli

Taking place toward the end of World War II in Japan, Grave of the Fireflies is the poignant tale of the relationship between two orphaned children, Seita (清太) and his younger sister Setsuko (節子). The children lose their mother in the firebombing of Kobe, and their father in service to the Imperial Japanese Navy, and as a result they are forced to try to survive amidst widespread famine and the callous indifference of their countrymen (some of whom are their own extended family members).

The story is based on the semi-autobiographic novel by the same name, whose author, Nosaka, lost his sister due to malnutrition in 1945 wartime Japan. He blamed himself for her death and wrote the story so as to make amends to her and help him accept the tragedy.

The novel
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dfukushi/Hotaru.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies

Movie detail (2005)

http://www.onlineghibli.com/grave_of_fireflies/liveaction.php

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491652/

picture credit: ?

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I don't know what to say, it made me feel out of breath, instead of crying. You should see it for yourself. I'm going to find the movie version by Nanako Matsushima, Inoue Mao (Hanadan), Sawamura Ikki, Tsuyoshi Ihara and Hoshi Ishida (as Seita). This Hoshi Ishida (b.1990) is so familiar, he really look like the one of the children in drama Engine (2005) with Kimura Takuya.

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I found it! Yes, Hoshi Ishida was in Engine. His role Daisuke, the rebellion boy n__n

http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Engine