A Beautiful Movie...

Rating: Null/10 (5 April 2003)

Grave of the Fireflies is a movie set in WWII Japan in the port city of Kobe. It is narrated by the spirit of Seta, an eleven year old boy found dead in a train station with an tin of candy filled with ashes. We follow him as he tells us the moving story of his last days.
This movie is visually gorgeous, emotionally wrenching, and lyrically directed. This movie moves slowly, with long shots of a brother and sister living their lives. There is one shot of Seta doing flips on a bar in a parking lot trying to cheer his sobbing sister up.
This is one of the greatest movies ever made, do not let the fact that it is animated bother you. It is up there with the greatest war movies of all time, with The Best Days of our Lives, and The Pianist.The Grave of the Fireflies captures the horrors of war and the wonders of childhood better than many live action films could ever hope for.