Grave of the Fireflies

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Summary: The greatest animated movie among Japan animation world
Review: I saw the movie around 10 years ago, and I was impressed at the story and the animated pictures. I believe most of people hate War after they see the movie. Of course, war is not the only key in this movie, but the families.

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Summary: A sad movie about kids too proud to ask for help
Review: Grave of the Fireflies is a well-made movie, and it does have many emotional moments. However, I was left with a feeling that all the suffering in the movie was for nothing. Basically, the boy and his sister are starving because they are too proud to ask for help from the family member they were staying with. And when they were staying with them, the boy did not make any effort to work and earn money, which made the family resent them. It was difficult to feel sorry for the needless suffering of a boy who wasn't willing to work and earn some money.

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Summary: A Very Powerful Film
Review: ... There is a big reason that this animation has a 5/5 rating here, it is because it is one of the BEST! IT tells a very powerful and moving story about a boy and his sister as they try to survive allied fire-bombings at the end of WWII. This is the crown jewel of anime. The collector's edition also throws in some great extras like background material that help put the story into better context. You owe it to yourself to watch this at least once (more than once to really let it sink in) and see a side of WW2 that rarely gets noticed. A word of warning though, there will not be a dry eye in the house after watching this. I can't say anything more than just buy it.

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Summary: A Very Powerful Movie 2!
Review: Oops! I stated previously that it was about nukes on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, I was wrong! Turns out from the Amazon description that it's about (What!?) the Tokyo firebombings! (Which did kill more people than both nukes did) Oh well, it's still a good anti-war flick, if not the best... along with Schindler's List. Ever notice how the best anti-war flicks are about the effects on the civilians and not the soldiers?

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Summary: Very Powerful
Review: As I stated in my title, this is a very powerful movie. I see it as very anti-war. I'm Korean and even I kinda felt for the characters! This is a wonder, especially to me, given that the Japanese inflicted so much undue suffering on just about every corner of the Pacific Rim, funneling much of the misery through my own country! To say that this movie is a kind of castigation on the A-Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be extremely (With highlighted emphasis on extremely!) hypocritical. Instead, I see it as strictly adhering to the universal theme of war being bad for everyone in general, and that's an issue that I can really feel for these particular characters about.

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Summary: Wow, this is surprisingly awful.
Review: This is referring to the dubbed English version, not the original Japanese:

I rented this dvd after reviews here and elsewhere had led me astray. I have no problem with sad movies, enjoy them when they're well-made, but Fireflies is saccharine schlock. Death is a horrific subject, something that can upset anyone, but the sad story doesn't make this a good movie. I do imagine it's an important movie for some Japanese, a movie that shows they suffered under the Americans, but hell, so did Godzilla. And unlike Godzilla, this movie skips over art and heads straight for preachiness, alienating the viewer by insulting him. Aside from spelling everything out over and over again, the movie gets under your skin by introducing a character whose death we all know is to be the emotional climax of the story. Instead of nervously anticipating this death, I eagerly awaited it. Not since JarJar have I found a character to be this consistently annoying. Even that climactic death scene is followed immediately by a series of scenes that jar one back into a world of mindnumbing sweetness. Yes, the death of the innocent. We got the picture... in the first scene. Had I turned off my TV after that very first scene I would have thought this a good flick. Honestly, after the first two minutes, this movie offers so little for the brain that you'll find yourself wandering off right away.

One final thing. The score is terrible. More After-school Special throw-away junk. Don't bother watching this movie unless you want to write your own review.

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Summary: .....
Review: I own the japenese version. I hate this movie so much, but it has to be the best movie in the whole world. If you think you've cried during movies before... which I never have... by the end my stomach hurt and I was crying uncontrollably. This kind of thing happens every day... even if there isn't a war. This movie is for everyone who thinks retaliation and war is the way to go.... even if you don't, watch this movie. I dont know how the english version is, but I know the original is heartbreaking. basically, you watch two kids, about a 3 year old girl and her older brother, trying to survive, and you watch them waste away as situations get worse, and they run out of money, and food, and have nowhere to go, no one to go to. Everyone should watch this movie.

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Summary: Sad but thoughtful
Review: I think this movie is the most saddest animation at all.
Forget about the fact/history, war is a tragedy on both side.

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Summary: For those of you who have seen Pearl Harbor...
Review: ...and you think NEGATIVE about the Japanese (which by now I think you'd be calling them by the offensive racial slur "Jap"), you should see THIS.

Now look here. If you think that the Japanese deserved to suffer, or you think that talk of it is overexaggeration, READ THIS.

Now that I have your attention (or maybe I don't, fine, be intolerable to society pushing and beating every "Jap" around, there, am I using terms that are tolerable with you), see this film if you can. Look on the other side of things. You can't always look on your side in huge detail and then look at the others in tiny one-sentence description saying it was nothing.

This is the best drama ever made, and also best war movie. Maybe even could win best picture if society didn't bash animation so much. But screw the academy. Just see this.

It comes to show, with just TWO people, in detail, living on their own. First, they go to their aunt for shelter, but then, she starts to be cruel around them, so they leave for their own hospitality. They find an abandoned bomb shelter, so they move there to live. The air raids are over. Japan surrendered. Now, it's another BIG problem; Post-war starvation. Even worse, one of them isn't getting enough food. Soon, she dies, and then the other one, the older brother, swears to never go back to shelter, and just wait until the day he dies.

Don't just leave and not see this movie, though. See it. Even for those who don't cry at movies, this will. It's the most powerful movie ever. It's equivalent to "Schindler's List", which I also reccomend.

Now, the rest of you people that I was talking about... if you're still not cured of your propaganda attitude, it's like you're saying that the Jews deserved what happened to them in "Schindler's List"

So, if you still aren't cured, leave the human race. We don't need any more propaganda from you.

Oh yeah, before you people leave us, I'll tell you I am one of those "Cold, heartless 'Japs'" you like to push around. Now you can leave.

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Summary: Wonderful Tribute to a VERY Deserving Film
Review: Grave of the Fireflies is one of the most moving movies ever made - live action OR animated. This 2-disc set does justice to it with interviews and extra features. Now...why wasn't this done sooner?