Grave of the Fireflies
In the last months of the Second World War, a teenage boy and his little sister try to survive alone after firebombing destroys their home.
- Type
- Film
- Released
- 1988
- Director
- Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli
- Length
- 93 min · One sitting
- Original title
- 火垂るの墓
- Critics' average
- 92/100 across 4 published scores
Genres
Animation · Drama · Anime · Anti-war · Home front · War
What it feels like
Family · Grief & loss · War & its human cost · Survival · Melancholic · Bleak
Connected stories
- Also in Studio Ghibli Feature Films: My Neighbor Totoro
- Also in Studio Ghibli Feature Films: Princess Mononoke
- Also in Studio Ghibli Feature Films: Spirited Away
- Also in Studio Ghibli Feature Films: Howl's Moving Castle
- Also in Studio Ghibli Feature Films: The Boy and the Heron