Grave of the Fireflies
1988 Japanese animated film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the 1988 film. For the semi-autobiographical short story of the same name, see Grave of the Fireflies (short story). For the 2005 film, see Grave of the Fireflies (2005 film).
Grave of the Fireflies (Japanese: 火垂るの墓, Hepburn: Hotaru no Haka) is a 1988 Japanese animated war drama film written and directed by Isao Takahata, and produced by Studio Ghibli. It is based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical short story Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka.
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Kanji | 火垂るの墓 | ||||
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Directed by | Isao Takahata | ||||
Screenplay by | Isao Takahata | ||||
Based on | "Grave of the Fireflies" by Akiyuki Nosaka | ||||
Produced by | Toru Hara | ||||
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Cinematography | Nobuo Koyama | ||||
Edited by | Takeshi Seyama | ||||
Music by | Michio Mamiya | ||||
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Distributed by | Toho | ||||
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Running time | 89 minutes[1] | ||||
Country | Japan | ||||
Language | Japanese | ||||
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The film stars Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi [ja], Yoshiko Shinohara [ja] and Akemi Yamaguchi [ja]. Set in the city of Kobe, Japan, it tells the story of siblings and war orphans Seita and Setsuko, and their desperate struggle to survive during the final months of the Pacific War. Universally acclaimed, Grave of the Fireflies has been ranked as one of the greatest war films of all time and is recognized as a major work of Japanese animation.[4][5]