A true masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (4 November 2014)

Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies is arguably the greatest animated movie ever made, and one of the best war movies ever made as well.The movie tells the tragic story of two orphaned children a teen-aged boy named Seita (voiced by Tsutomu Tatsumi) and his 4 year old sister Setsuko (voiced by Ayano Shiraishi) who try to struggle to survive the U.S. atomic bomb attacks during World War II. Director Isao Takahata really does capture the essence of tragedy that WWII brought to the American people and the Japanese people alike in the same way, and to put it this way the Japanese got what was coming to them, and they were the ones that made us get involved in WWII because of the Pearl Harbor bombing, but I don't mean it in a racist way. The two main characters also try to show us not only how they felt during the war but also how important it is to love your family members more than anybody else in the world.