MOVIE
Grave of the Fireflies
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.
ERA & CONTEXT
Grave of the Fireflies in its release era
Released in 2005, Grave of the Fireflies sits inside the 2000s catalog. Explore its creators, studio connections, genres and nearby releases from the same period.
- Release
- 2005-11-01
- TMDB score
- 7.9/10
- Original language
- JA
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Japan
- Studio
- Nippon Television Network Corporation
People behind the title
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Topicsworld war iisingle motherbrother sisterstarvationfire bombingchildren in wartimebrother and sister
This title is available from the shared catalog, but it is not published as an index-targeted page for this specialty edition.