Advantages: A deeply emotional and brutally mature look at survival, life and war... Disadvantages: ...which makes the film very depressing
..."September 21, 1945… that was the night I died."
With that single sentence begins Grave of the Fireflies, quite possibly the most beautiful film I have ever seen. Movies about human suffering during wars and poor circumstances of life have been made ma ...
Advantages: Beautifully evocative, quietly devastating portrayal of the consequences of war. Disadvantages: Minimal.
It's easy to write off anime as something apart from "serious" filmmaking, or see it as a way of dumbing down and jollying up the realities of its subjects - Studio Ghibli have spent the last quarter-century, though, proving wrong this supposition, and Gr ...
Advantages: Powerful film, intricate, spot-on voice actors, fitting music, human Disadvantages: A depressing film
...A review of the original Japanese language version of Grave of the Fireflies with English subtitles.
When Grave of the Fireflies first appeared in the theaters, such was the miserable nature of this animation that it turned away it's intended children ...
Advantages: Animation at its more mature and sincere Disadvantages: Deeply depressing
This film is beyond a doubt Takahata Isao’s masterpiece, and amongst Studio Ghibli’s best films – arguably their best. The movie was released on a double bill with Totoro (at the time, Totoro was considered too hard to market to release on its own!), alth ...
Advantages: Great animation, very emotional Disadvantages: May be hard to watch a second time.
Grave of the fireflies is a film by Legendary Japanese Animation Studio Ghibli about a 13 year old boy and his baby sister and their struggle to survive as orphans in war torn Japan (During WWII).
Unlike many of Ghibli's more famous films (Spirited away, ...
