GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES

               

Grave of Fireflies is an emotional story based on the two siblings Seita and Setsuko. In this anime, you can see the animated war tragedy based on a 1967 . This is a short story by Akiyuki Nosaka. It was directed and written by Isao Takahata, and also animated by Studio Ghibli for Shinchosha Publishing.

Grave of the Fireflies has been ranked as one of the greatest war films of all time and is also recognized as a great work of Japanese animation.Seita and Setsuko house was destroyed in a firebombing.

Two siblings escaped from that place and their mother was dead in that firebombing. Seita hides this news from her sister because he doesn’t want to see her sister sad. Later on, they move into their distant aunt’s house. They were fully dependent on their aunt because they don’t have any money and were also contactless with their father. His father was also an Imperial Japanese Navy Caption. His distant aunt convinces him to sell his mother’s silk but Setsuko argues while selling her mother’s silk. That aunt becomes resentful towards them and deems them unworthy of earning her food.

They decided to leave their aunt’s house after excessive insults, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. Setsuko already heard the news that her mother’s death after knowing that Setsuko heard the news both of them cried hardly. After seeing them, I also cried thinking how painful to lose my mother at a very young age.

They don’t have anything to eat. Setsuko became sick day by day though they don’t have money to consult with the doctor. Seita starts stealing due to hunger and her sister is suffering from malnutrition. While going to steal Seita got bitten and also taken to the police station. The most painful part is Setsuko went to the police station and asked her brother” your body got hurt is it paining “? then he tightly hugs her sister and both of them cried. I cried while seeing them.

Seita withdraws all the money from his mother’s bank account. After doing so he heard that Japan has surrendered and that his father is also dead. Seita returns with food but finds her sister is dying. Seita cremates Setsuko’s body and her stuffed doll in a straw casket. He carries her ashes in the candy tin along with his father’s photographs.

At the end of World War II, Seita dies of starvation at a Sannomiya train station surrounded by other malnourished people.