An excellent film that left me in tears.

Rating: 10/10 (9 August 2013)

I have no choice but to give this animated masterpiece a 10 out of 10. I had never seen it when it came out and decided to get it. I had heard it was very sad, so I knew it might not be a kiddies movie. But boy was I taken on an emotional overdrive! The story so compelling about a young boy and his little sister trying to stay alive in war-torn Japan changed the way I feel about war and children as a whole. Any movie that could bring about such a profound change in me will forever be in the upper echelons in my favorite movie collection. Kudos to every single person involved in making the movie. The story so deep and the sadness even deeper. And even sadder still is that it happened during those dark years and still happening now.