This animated Japanese masterpiece is a war story as wrenching as any live-action movie

Rating: 10/10 (7 November 2013)

If you thought Bambi or Up were as emotional as animation gets, you need to see this Japanese masterpiece. It's a war story as wrenching as any live-action movie, and it has reduced many viewers to tears – this one included. Based on Akiyuki Nosaka's semi-autobiographical novel, it is focused on a teenager and his sister struggling to survive at the tail end of the second world war, and it records their plight with unsentimental intimacy. This is a movie you don't want to watch again,not because it was rubbish or it was boring,its only because you don't want to cry again,not feel the pain again. If you are thinking of watching this movie spare no time and watch right now,because this film is beautiful,delicate.It is one of the best war film.If I had to rate it I would give it a perfect 10.