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1988 Japanese blithe film by Isao Takahata

Grave of the Fireflies
Theatrical release poster
Japanese	火垂るの墓
Hepburn	Hotaru no Haka
Directed by	Isao Takahata
Screenplay by	Isao Takahata
Based on	"Grave of the Fireflies" by Akiyuki Nosaka
Produced by	Toru Hara
Starring	Tsutomu Tatsumi [ja] Ayano Shiraishi [ja] Yoshiko Shinohara [ja] Akemi Yamaguchi [ja]
Cinematography	Nobuo Koyama
Edited by	Takeshi Seyama
Music by	Michio Mamiya
Product company	Studio Ghibli
Distributed by	Toho
Release engagement	16 April 1988 (1988-04-sixteen)
Running time	89 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box part	¥1.7 billion (Nippon)[2] $516,962 (Us)[three]

Grave of the Fireflies (Japanese: 火垂るの墓, Hepburn: Hotaru no Haka ) is a 1988 Japanese blithe war tragedy film^{[4] [v]} based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical brusque story of the same proper noun by Akiyuki Nosaka. It was written and directed by Isao Takahata, and animated by Studio Ghibli for the story's publisher Shinchosha Publishing (making it the only Studio Ghibli film under Tokuma Shoten ownership that had no involvement from them).^[6] The moving-picture show stars Tsutomu Tatsumi [ja], Ayano Shiraishi [ja], Yoshiko Shinohara [ja] and Akemi Yamaguchi [ja]. Set in the city of Kobe, Nihon, the film tells the story of two siblings, Seita and Setsuko, and their desperate struggle to survive during the terminal months of the 2nd World State of war. Grave of the Fireflies received critical acclaim and has been ranked as 1 of the greatest war films of all time and has been recognized as a major work of Japanese blitheness.^{[seven] [8]}

Plot [edit]

Akitani Swimming: The site where Seita and Setsuko lived solitary together

In 1945, teenager Seita and his younger sister Setsuko's house is destroyed in a firebombing along with well-nigh of Kobe. They escape unharmed, merely their female parent dies from severe burns. Seita conceals their mother's death from Setsuko in an endeavor to keep her happy, which she later on learns of despite Seita'south efforts. Seita and Setsuko move in with a distant aunt, and Seita retrieves supplies he buried before the bombing and gives everything to his aunt, save for a can of Sakuma drops. The aunt convinces Seita to sell his mother'south silk kimono for rice as rations shrink and the number of refugees in the house grows. Seita uses some of his mother'due south money in the bank to purchase supplies, but eventually, the aunt becomes resentful of the children, deeming them unworthy of earning her food.

Seita and Setsuko decide to leave the aunt's home after excessive insults, and they movement into an abandoned bomb shelter. They release fireflies into the shelter for light. The next day, Setsuko is horrified to find that the insects take died. She buries them in a grave, request why they and her mother had to die. As they run out of rice, Seita steals from farmers and loots homes during air raids, for which he is beaten and sent to the police. The officer realizes Seita is stealing due to hunger and releases him. When Setsuko falls ill, a doctor explains that she is suffering from malnutrition. Desperate, Seita withdraws the terminal of the money in their mother's depository financial institution account. After doing so, he becomes distraught when he learns that Japan has surrendered, and that his father, an Imperial Japanese Navy captain, is most probable dead, as virtually of Japan'south navy has been sunk. Seita returns to Setsuko with nutrient, but finds her dying. She afterward dies as Seita finishes preparing the food. Seita cremates Setsuko's body and her blimp doll in a straw catafalque. He carries her ashes in the candy tin along with his begetter's photograph.

Presently after the terminate of World War II, Seita dies of starvation at a Sannomiya railroad train station surrounded by other malnourished people. A janitor is tasked with removing the bodies before the arrival of the Americans. The janitor sorts through Seita'south possessions and finds the candy can, which he throws into a field. Setsuko's ashes spread out, and her spirit springs from the tin and is joined by Seita's spirit and a cloud of fireflies. They board a ghostly train and, throughout the journey, wait dorsum at the events leading to Seita'southward death. Their spirits later arrive at their destination, salubrious and happy. Surrounded by fireflies, they rest on a hilltop bench overlooking present-solar day Kobe.

Cast [edit]

Character	Japanese voice histrion	English phonation actor
		Skypilot Amusement/CPM (1998)	Toho/Seraphim/Sentai (2012)
Seita Yokokawa ( 横川 清太 )	Tsutomu Tatsumi [ja]	J. Robert Spencer	Adam Gibbs
Setsuko Yokokawa ( 横川 節子 )	Ayano Shiraishi [ja]	Corinne Orr	Emily Neves
Mrs. Yokokawa ( 横川 さん )	Yoshiko Shinohara [ja]	Veronica Taylor	Shelley Calene-Black
Seita and Setsuko's aunt	Akemi Yamaguchi [ja]	Amy Jones	Marcy Bannor
Seita and Setsuko's cousin	Kazumi Nozaki	Shannon Conley
Farmer		Dan Green
Md	Michio Denpō	Crispin Freeman
Old man
Railroad train station worker	Teruhisa Harita Michio Denpō		Andrew Love

Production [edit]

Evolution [edit]

Incendiary bombs beingness dropped onto Kobe, the setting of the film

Grave of the Fireflies author Akiyuki Nosaka said that many offers had been made to make a live-action picture show adaptation of his short story.^[nine] Nosaka argued that "it was impossible to create the barren, scorched world that'south to exist the properties of the story".^[ix] He too argued that contemporary children would not exist able to assuredly play the characters. Nosaka expressed surprise when an animated version was offered.^[9] Later seeing the storyboards, Nosaka concluded that it was not possible for such a story to have been made in whatsoever method other than blitheness and expressed surprise in how accurately the rice paddies and townscape were depicted.^[9]

Isao Takahata said that he was compelled to moving picture the short story after seeing how the main graphic symbol, Seita, "was a unique wartime 9th grader".^[x] Takahata explained that any wartime story, whether animated or not blithe, "tends to be moving and tear-jerking", and that young people develop an "inferiority circuitous" where they perceive people in wartime eras equally being more than noble and more able than they are, and therefore the audience believes that the story has nothing to do with them. Takahata argued that he wanted to dispel this mindset.^[ix] When Nosaka asked if the motion-picture show characters were "having fun", Takahata answered that he clearly depicted Seita and Setsuko had "substantial" days and that they were "enjoying their days".^[11] Takahata said that Setsuko was even more hard to animate than Seita, and that he had never before depicted a girl younger than five.^[9] Takahata said that "In that respect, when you make the book into a movie, Setsuko becomes a tangible person", and that four-year-olds often get more than believing and self-centered, and endeavour to become their ain ways during that historic period. He explained that while one could "have a scene where Seita can't stand up that anymore", it is "difficult to incorporate into a story".^[12] Takahata explained that the film is from Seita's indicate of view, "and even objective passages are filtered through his feelings".^[xi]

Takahata said that he had considered using non-traditional animation methods, but because "the schedule was planned and the movie's release date set, and the staff assembled, information technology was credible there was no room for such a trial-and-fault approach".^[11] He further remarked that he had difficulty animating the scenery since, in Japanese animation, one is "not immune" to depict Japan in a realistic style.^[9] Animators often traveled to strange countries to exercise research on how to describe them, but such research had not been washed before for a Japanese setting.^[9] While animative the movie, Takahata also created several dissimilar cuts of the scene in which Seita cremates Setsuko'due south body. Takahata spent a lot of time on this scene, trying to create the perfect iteration of it. Each of these cuts remained unfinished and unused in the end.^[13]

Most of the illustration outlines in the movie are in brown, instead of the customary blackness. Black outlines were merely used when information technology was absolutely necessary. Color coordinator Michiyo Yasuda said this was done to requite the film a softer experience. Yasuda said that this technique had never been used in an anime before Grave of the Fireflies, "and information technology was done on a challenge".^[9] Yasuda explained that dark-brown is more difficult to use than black because information technology does non contrast as well as black.^[ix]

Music [edit]

The film score was composed by Michio Mamiya. Along with the original soundtrack, the song "Home Sweetness Home", performed by coloratura soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, was included.^[xiv] Dialogue of the flick is part of the soundtrack, the music and dialogue are non separated in any fashion.^[15] Mamiya is also a music specialist in bizarre and classical music.

During an interview about his music, Mamiya stated that he creates his music to encourage peace.^[16] The songs in Grave of the Fireflies every bit well as other pieces by Michio Mamiya such equally Serenade No.3 "Germ", express this theme.^[sixteen]

Original Soundtrack^[15] [edit]

No.	Title	Length	No.	Title	Length	No.	Title	Length
1	節子と清太~メインタイトル (Setsuko and Seita - Main Title)	ii:57	vii	波打際 (The Embankment)	1:37	13	ほたる (Fireflies)	4:12
2	焼野原 (The Burnt-out Surface area)	6:51	8	日傘 (The Parasol)	2:26	14	ほたるの墓 (Grave of the Fireflies)	i:46
3	母の死 (Female parent'south Death)	half-dozen:34	9	桜の下 (Under the Ruby Blossoms)	1:31	15	夕焼け (Dusk Colors)	0:53
4	初夏 (Early Summer)	three:xiv	10	ドロップス (Drops)	2:thirteen	16	修羅 (Scene of Carnage)	three:08
5	池のほとり (At the Shore of the Pond)	2:21	11	引越し (Moving)	2:17	17	悲歌 (Elegy / Song of Sorrow)	3:12
6	海へ (To the Ocean)	one:37	12	兄妹 (Older Brother, Younger Sister)	2:xv	xviii	ふたり~エンドタイトル [2 (People) - End Title]	8:52

Themes and assay [edit]

Some critics in the West have viewed Grave of the Fireflies every bit an anti-war moving picture due to the graphic and emotional depiction of the pernicious repercussions of war on a society, and the individuals therein. The moving picture focuses its attention almost entirely on the personal tragedies that war gives rise to, rather than seeking to glamorize information technology as a heroic struggle between competing nations. It emphasizes that state of war is society'due south failure to perform its most important duty: to protect its own people.^[17]

However, director Takahata repeatedly denied that the film was an anti-war film. In his own words, it "is non at all an anti-state of war anime and contains absolutely no such message". Instead, Takahata had intended to convey an image of the brother and sis living a failed life due to isolation from social club and invoke sympathy particularly in people in their teens and twenties.^{[eighteen] [19]}

Since the film gives little context to the war, Takahata feared a political leader could but as easily claim fighting is needed to avoid such tragedies. In general, he was skeptical that depictions of suffering in similar works, such as Barefoot Gen, actually preclude aggression. The director was nevertheless an anti-state of war advocate, a staunch supporter of Article ix of the Japanese Constitution, and has openly criticized Japan'southward penchant for conformity, allowing them to be rallied confronting other nations. He expressed despair and feet whenever the youth are told to fall in line, a reminder that the country at its cadre has not changed.^[xx]

Release [edit]

Theatrical [edit]

The film was released on 16 April 1988, over 20 years from the publication of the brusque story.^[12]

The initial Japanese theatrical release was accompanied by Hayao Miyazaki'southward light-hearted My Neighbor Totoro as a double characteristic. While the two films were marketed toward children and their parents, the starkly tragic nature of Grave of the Fireflies turned away many audiences. However, Totoro trade, peculiarly the stuffed animals of Totoro and Catbus, sold extremely well after the film and fabricated overall profits for the visitor to the extent that it stabilized subsequent productions of Studio Ghibli.

Grave of the Fireflies is the only theatrical Studio Ghibli feature movie prior to From Up on Poppy Hill to which Disney never had Northward American distribution rights, since it was not produced by Ghibli for parent company Tokuma Shoten but for Shinchosha, the publisher of the original short story (although Disney has the Japanese home video distribution rights themselves, thus replacing the film's original Japanese home video distributor, Bandai Visual).^[21] It was one of the concluding Studio Ghibli films to go an English-linguistic communication premiere by GKIDS.^[22]

Home media [edit]

Grave of the Fireflies was released in Nihon on VHS by Buena Vista Home Entertainment under the Ghibli ga Ippai Collection on seven August 1998. On 29 July 2005, a DVD release was distributed through Warner Home Video. Walt Disney Studios Nippon released the consummate collector'south edition DVD on vi Baronial 2008. WDSJ released the motion picture on Blu-ray twice on 18 July 2012: one as a single release, and i in a two-movie prepare with My Neighbor Totoro (even though Disney never currently owns the North American but Japanese rights as mentioned).

It was released on VHS in Due north America by Primal Park Media in a subtitled course on ii June 1993.^[23] They later released the film with an English dub on VHS on 1 September 1998 (the day Disney released Kiki's Delivery Service) and an all-Regions DVD (which besides included the original Japanese with English subtitles) on vii October 1998. On 8 October 2002, it was later released on a ii-disc DVD set, which once again included both the English dub and the original Japanese with English subtitles as well as the film'due south storyboards with the second disc containing a retrospective on the author of the original volume, an interview with the manager, and an interview with critic Roger Ebert, who felt the film was one of the greatest of all time.^[24] It was released by Central Park Media one terminal fourth dimension on 7 December 2004. Following the May 2009 defalcation and liquidation of Fundamental Park Media,^[25] ADV Films acquired the rights and re-released it on DVD on 7 July 2009.^[26] Following the one September 2009 shutdown and re-branding of ADV,^[27] their successor, Sentai Filmworks, rescued the film and released a remastered DVD on 6 March 2012, and planned to release the film on digital outlets.^{[28] [29]} A Blu-ray edition was released on 20 November 2012, featuring an all-new English dub produced by Seraphim Digital.^[30]

StudioCanal released a Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2013, followed by Kiki'due south Delivery Service on the same format.^[31] It was the UK's 10th almanac all-time-selling strange language film on home video in 2022 (below seven other Japanese films, including vi Hayao Miyazaki anime films).^[32] Madman Entertainment released the film in Australia and New Zealand.

Reception [edit]

The movie was modestly successful at the Japanese box function,^[33] where it grossed ¥1.7 billion.^[two] As function of the Studio Ghibli Fest 2018, the film had a limited theatrical release in the United States, grossing $516,962.^[3]

The Ghibli ga Ippai Collection habitation video release of Grave of the Fireflies sold 400,000 copies in Nihon.^[34] At a cost of at least ¥iv,935,^[35] this is equivalent to at least ¥1.974 billion in sales revenue.

The motion-picture show received universal critical acclaim. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sunday-Times considered it to be one of the best and most powerful war films and, in 2000, included information technology on his list of nifty films.^[24] The picture review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating based on 40 reviews with an boilerplate rating of nine.thirty/x. The website'due south critical consensus reads: "An achingly deplorable anti-war moving picture, Grave of the Fireflies is one of Studio Ghibli's almost profoundly beautiful, haunting works."^[36]

Filmmaker Akira Kurosawa praised the film and considered it his favourite Ghibli production. He wrote a letter of the alphabet of praise to Hayao Miyazaki, mistakenly assertive he directed Grave of the Fireflies. Miyazaki himself praised the film as Takahata'due south masterpiece, but criticized Seita for not behaving how he believes the son of a navy lieutenant should behave.^[37]

The film ranked number 12 on Full Motion-picture show 'south fifty greatest animated films.^[38] It was also ranked at number 10 in Fourth dimension Out 's "The 50 greatest Globe War Ii movies" list.^[39] Empire magazine ranked the film at number half-dozen in its list of "The Top ten Depressing Movies".^[xl] The picture show ranked number 19 on Wizard'due south Anime Magazine on their "Top 50 Anime released in Northward America".^[41] The Daily Star, ranking the moving picture quaternary on its list of greatest short story adaptations, wrote that "There is both much and piffling to say about the flick. It is simply an experience—a trip through the lonely boroughs of humanity that the world collectively looked, and still looks, away from".^[42] Theron Martin of Anime News Network said that, in terms of the original U.S. Manga Corps dub, while the other voices were "perfectly acceptable", "Setsuko only doesn't sound quite convincing as a four-year-erstwhile in English language. That, unfortunately, is a big negative, since a good chunk of the pathos the motion picture delivers is at least partly dependent on that performance".^[28]

On 25 December 2016, Toei Visitor made a Twitter mail service that read "Why did Kiriya have to die and so soon?" ( なんできりやすぐ死んでしまうん , Nande Kiriya sugu shinde shimaun? ) in lodge to promote an episode of Kamen Passenger Ex-Assistance. The hashtag became pop, but Toei deleted the tweet after receiving complaints that referencing the Grave of the Fireflies line "Why exercise fireflies die so soon?" ( なんで蛍すぐ死んでしまうん , Nande hotaru sugu shinde shimaun ) was in poor taste.^[43] Before that, the ranking website Goo'southward readers voted the film's catastrophe the number 1 most miserable of all anime films.^[44]

On June 2018, United states of america Today ranked 1st on the 100 best animated movies of all time.^[45]

Public reactions [edit]

Afterwards the international release, information technology has been noted that different audiences have interpreted the pic differently due to differences in civilisation. For instance, when the movie was watched by a Japanese audition, Seita'due south decision to not come dorsum to his aunt was seen as an understandable decision, equally they were able to understand how Seita had been raised to value pride in himself and his country. But American and Australian audiences were more than probable to perceive the decision as unwise, due to the cultural differences in society to try to save his sister and himself.^{[46] [47]}

Accolades [edit]

Year	Laurels	Category	Recipient	Event
1989	Blue Ribbon Awards	Special Award	Isao Takahata	Won
1994	Chicago International Children's Film Festival	Animation Jury Award		Won
		Rights of the Child Award		Won

Derivative works [edit]

Planned follow-up [edit]

Following the success of Grave of the Fireflies, Takahata drew up an outline for a follow-up picture, based on similar themes merely gear up in 1939 at the commencement of the second Globe War. This movie was called Border 1939, based on the novel The Border by Shin Shikata, and would have told the story of a Japanese teenager from colonial Seoul joining an anti-Japanese resistance group in Mongolia. The film was intended as an indictment of Japanese imperialist sentiment, which is briefly touched upon in Grave of the Fireflies. Although Takahata finished a full outline (which is republished in his volume Thoughts While Making Movies), the film was canceled earlier production could commencement due to the 1989 Tiananmen Foursquare protests. Public opinion in Japan had turned against China, and Ghibli's distributor felt a film partly set there was too risky.^[48]

2005 alive-action version [edit]

NTV in Japan produced a alive-action TV drama of Grave of the Fireflies, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the stop of World War Ii. The drama aired on ane November 2005. Like the anime, the live-action version of Grave of the Fireflies focuses on two siblings struggling to survive the last months of the war in Kobe, Nihon. Different the animated version, information technology tells the story from the indicate of view of their cousin (the aunt's daughter) and deals with the issue of how the war-time environment could change a kind lady into a hard-hearted woman. It stars Nanako Matsushima every bit the aunt, too every bit Mao Inoue equally their cousin.

2008 live-activity version [edit]

A different alive-action version was released in Japan on 5 July 2008, Reo Yoshitake [ja] as Seita, Rina Hatakeyama [ja] as Setsuko, Keiko Matsuzaka equally the aunt, and Seiko Matsuda as the children's mother. Similar the anime, this live-action version of Grave of the Fireflies focuses on two siblings struggling to survive the concluding months of the war in Kobe, Japan.^[49]

See too [edit]

• Air raids against Japan during World State of war 2
• Evacuations of civilians in Japan during Globe State of war II
• Barefoot Gen, a manga series set in the aftermath of the diminutive bombing of Hiroshima.
• Fragile Dreams: Adieu Ruins of the Moon, a video game with similarities to the film.^[50]

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Farther reading [edit]

• Goldberg, Wendy (2009). Lunning, Frenchy (ed.). "Transcending the Victim's History: Takahata Isao's Grave of the Fireflies". Mechademia. University of Minnesota Press. 4: 39–52. doi:ten.1353/mec.0.0030. ISBN9780816667499.
• Hooks, Ed (2005). "Grave of the Fireflies". Acting in Animation: A Look at 12 Films. Heinemann Drama. pp. 67–83. ISBN9780325007052.
• Rosser, Michael (23 Nov 2012). "Dresden to produce live action Grave of the Fireflies". Screen Daily . Retrieved 24 Nov 2012.

External links [edit]

• Grave of the Fireflies at Nausicaa.net
• Grave of the Fireflies Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) at IMDb
• Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) at Rotten Tomatoes
• Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) (flick) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) at The Big Cartoon DataBase
• Live-action version of Grave of the Fireflies (in Japanese)

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