An emotional bomb

Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2002)

This movie recently caught my attention by being the highest rated animation picture on this very site. It was by then I decided to watch it, and I can assure you now - I was not disappointed. Grave of the Fireflies is one of the finest movies I've seen.
Grave of the Fireflies is a story about how a fourteen-year-old boy and his little sister tries to survive in a village in Japan near the end of World War II.
Without going further into the plot and revealing anything, I can say that this is to date the most emotionally exhausting film I've ever seen. Films like Dr Zhivago, Deer Hunter and The Killing Fields fade in comparison (although those are excellent movies as well). When I had finished watching this movie, I found myself crying. Do not miss this gem: it's beauty and tragedy made me look at war from another perspective.
One of the few films that really deserve 10/10.