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Grave of the fireflies [videorecording (DVD)].

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Sentai Filmworks, 2012.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Japan -- Drama.

Alternate title:

Hotaru no haka [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (89 min.) : 2.0 Dolby digital, stereo. sd., col.; 12 cm.

Based on Akiyuki Nosaka's semi-authobiographical novel "Hotaru no haka".

Program content : Original Japanese version: Akiyuki Nosaka/Shinchosha Co., 1988 ; English versions: Central Park Media Corporation, 1992, 1998.

Includes the original Japanese and English language tracks with optional English subtitles.

Shinchosha presents ; a Studio Ghibli production ; written and directed by Isao Takahata.

"As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies. This is the story of Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, two children born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to shelter them, but simply the resources. to fend for themselves in the aftermath of fires that swept entire cities from the face of the earth, their doomed struggle is both a tribute to the human spirit and the stuff of nightmares. Beautiful, yet at times brutal and horrifying. Based on the retellings of survivor Nosaka Akiyuki and directed by Iaso Takahata (co-founder, with Hayao Miyazaki, of Japan's legendary Studio Ghibli,) Grave Of The Fireflies has been universally hailed as an artistic and emotional tour de . Now digitally remastered and restored, it is one of the rare films that truly deserves to be called a masterpiece."--Container.

Best Animated Feature Film, Chicago International Children's Film Festival.

Japanese films.

Animated feature films.

Animated films -- Japan.

Nosaka, Akiyuki, 1930- Hotaru no haka.

Takahata, Isao.

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