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Grave of the Fireflies
2005 • 2h 28m • ★ 7.9 (112 votes) Released
Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed and Kyoko is killed. Hisako is forced to take care of Kyoko's two children in addition to her own, but there is not enough food for everyone.
Director
Tōya Satō
Writer
Yumiko Inoue
Rating
7.9
Runtime
148 min
Production
Nippon Television Network CorporationTop Billed Cast
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Keywords
world war iisingle motherstarvationfire bombingchildren in wartime
