| ▶ PLAY TRAILER | Own it: | Search for streaming:      | With: (voices) Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi
| Written by: Isao Takahata, based on a novel by Akiyuki Nosaka
| Directed by: Isao Takahata
| MPAA Rating: Unrated
| Language: Japanese with English subtitles
| Running Time: 88
| | Date: 16/04/1988 | | | | Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Orphans After the Storm By Jeffrey M. Anderson Isao Takahata's classic anime Grave of the Fireflies is very simply the gentlest and most touching war-related film I've ever seen. A young man and his little sister attempt to survive after air raid kills their family. The disc contains a commentary track, an interview with Roger Ebert, and other stuff. |
