Incredibly powerful film

Rating: 9/10 (21 March 2009)

I would say this is among the most powerful war films ever made, right up there with All Quiet on the Western Front. In addition to this animated version, there is a complete live action version which can be seen in it's entirety on YouTube. Though less poetic, it is also very devastating in it's own right.
On a personal note: In 1969 my father was stationed in Japan with the USAF. While hiking in the woods, we found numerous decaying shelters many with old bottles and scratch built stoves. I took an unusual bottle that I have to this day. This haunting film has really effected me. I will show it to my children when they are older and give them the bottle. I don't know whose disrupted life it belonged to, but can only hope that they or their children are out there somewhere today, enjoying fireflies for those who no longer can.