Grave of the Fireflies
2005
⏱️ 148 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 JA
Drama
Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed and Kyoko is killed. Hisako is forced to take care of Kyoko's two children in addition to her own, but there is not enough food for everyone.
Cast
Crew
Director
Tōya Satō
Writer
Yumiko Inoue
Production
Nippon Television Network Corporation
Keywords
world war iisingle motherstarvationfire bombingchildren in wartime