Grave of the Fireflies (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Isao Takahata
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Actor: Akemi Yamaguchi, Ayano Shiraishi, Rhoda Chrosite, Tsutomu Tatsumi, Yoshiko ShinoharaDirector: Isao Takahata
Cinematographer: Nobuo Koyama
Writer: Isao Takahata
Editor: Takeshi Seyama
Producer: Ryoichi Sato
Producer: Tohru Hara
Writer: Akiyuki Nosaka
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Animated, Collector's Edition, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Central Park Media Corporation (I) (II)
DVD Reviews of Grave of the Fireflies (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: very heart wrenching
Summary: 5 Stars
everytime i see this movie, tears would just well up and run down my cheeks. it's touching, heart-wrenching and realistic. I'm really glad the english version is now out there. even though it's an animation, nothing about it is animated. definitely a classic must-see!DVD Review: Extrodinary Anime
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. That said I am going to disagree with every other review I have read on Amazon.com.
All stories come down to one basic plot, i.e. the protagonist has a problem, using his or her resources, the protagonist either does or does not solve the problem. In this story the protagonist is put into a terrible situation because of a war. His problem is survival, and he fails.
If you want to understand this film you need to carefully consider what resources the protagonist had available and why he failed to survive when many other people did survive. It is way too easy to just blame it all on the situation, feel sorry for the people who died, and not understantd that we all make choices, and we all have to live with the consequences of our decisions. This story has no heros or villains. They are ordinary people trying to survive in extrordiary circumstances.
I believe the director of this film had something very important to tell us about ourselves, and most reviewers missed the point. We could be placed in similar circumstances at any time, and we need to think about how we would react. If a major disaster occurs will we be prepared? Can help our familys, friends and neighbors? Will we seek out and help each other or will we try to go it alone and fail?
DVD Review: 'Nuff Said
Summary: 5 Stars
There's nothing I can say about this brilliant film that hasn't been said already. But hear this: Even if you HATE anime (with superfluous capital letters), watch this film.
Its genre is irrelevant. It's a masterpiece.
That is all.
DVD Review: Great movie, but very sad
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree with the other reviews of this movie. It's set in WWII Japan, towards the end when American bombers were wrecking havoc on Japan. Much death and sadness. I cried. I don't recommend preteens watch this just because it's so sad. But it is a must see movie.DVD Review: It's really a five star movie, but...
Summary: 1 Stars
I wanted everyone reading the one stars to know this little tidbit.
Nosaka wrote the novel this movie is based on to appologize to his sister - the little boy is him, and the little girl was his sister in real life. It's not dead-on a autobiography, but his little sister did die of malnutrition, and Nosaka blames himself, and wrote the book to help cope with the pain he still felt years later. So, the character Seita may not be tolerable, but that is the point. It's not poor writing... It's just the sad fact that something could have been done and was not.
Also... It may not scream "We're sorry! Love, Japan!" but this movie is at heart an anti-war movie, and the message isn't really "I'm sorry" but more like, "All of us should know better now to never let this happen again." And that, in my opinion, is pretty much just as good.
Great movie, it really is a must see.
Description of Grave of the Fireflies (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
Isao Takahata's powerful antiwar film has been praised by critics wherever it has been screened around the world. When their mother is killed in the firebombing of Tokyo near the end of World War II, teenage Seita and his little sister Setsuko are left on their own: their father is away, serving in the Imperial Navy. The two children initially stay with an aunt, but she has little affection for them and resents the time and money they require. The two children set up housekeeping in a cave by a stream, but their meager resources are quickly exhausted, and Seita is reduced to stealing to feed his sister.The strength of Grave of the Fireflies lies in Takahata's evenhanded portrayal of the characters. A sympathetic doctor, the greedy aunt, the disinterested cousins all know there is little they can do for Seita and Setsuko. Their resources, like their country's, are already overtaxed: anything they spare endangers their own survival. As in the Barefoot Gen films, no mention is made of Japan's role in the war as an aggressor; but the depiction of the needless suffering endured by its victims transcends national and ideological boundaries. --Charles Solomon
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