Will everyone STOP fighting about the U.S. vs. Japan in WWII? It's easy for all of us to sit here and judge because we weren't alive during the actual events that this movie took place. If we were, and didn't know anything about Pearl Harbor or the A-Bomb beforehand, I can guarantee we'd all be singing a different song.
Let's not forget that Japan is not a completely innocent country when it comes to their own history during WWII.
i don't feel bad for the japanese. they still to this day do not apologize for starting the war, they're a bunch of assholes who blame the united states for everything. may the japanese killed or affected by the atomic bomb burn in hell along with hitler and stalin. i prayed for the families killed by the japanese.
@bigman1171 ...like America is any better. how would you like it, when your city gets destroyed by a nuclear bomb and you are suffering years later from the nuclear radiation.
@bigman1171 America was the aggressor. To stop them from forming the "asian prosperity sphere", America cut off oil to Japan and siezed all Japanese assets in U.S. banks. This severly hurt Japan economically and left them with a 2 year supply of oil. Japan decided to seize Indonesia to gain their oil reserves (sumatra and borneo). Japan needed to also secure the Phillipines to protect their shipping routes to the southeast pacific.
@WOLFE221 Attacking the Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl harbor was not an act of aggression, but a strategic countermeasure to keep America from interfering with what they thought was necessary to survive as a nation. Blaming the Japanese for attacking Pearl Harbor is like a bully getting mad at a kid he picks on for fighting back...then firebombing his house and killing the kids family because he ended up with a black eye.
i know that japan was the ones that were trying to take over the world and killing millions of people, torturing them, and so on, but i do feel bad for them, especially for those that were harmed in japan because of their greedy rulers, this movie is amazing...
this movie sounds so good but i dont dare to watch it. i dont want to be heartbroken all over again when watching such anime movies. WHY DO ALL OF THE ANIME MOVIES HAVE SUCH devastating endings!!! out of 10 ive watched, 9 of them would have an ending which pissed me off. but i gotta admit all of them rendered me speechless. JAP ANIME MOVIES ARE THE BEST.
Recommended to watch:
- The girl who leapt through time (MY best so far :D)
I loved this movie so much. I've been wanting to watch it again but man, a) It was so emotionally draining and b) I don't want to be "used to it"". You know when you watch a movie too many times and you don't like it as much after? Even so, one of the best movies ever by Studio Ghibli!
I think it's important to keep in mind, this type of story is being played out in real life every day. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Africa etc. Right now, this very second many people are in a similar situation as the characters in this movie. As long as we feel the need to harm each other over differences of race, religion, money, oil etc etc...it will continue. Hopefully one day we learn it's just not worth it.
This made me cry from the first two minutes until the very last one. I hated myself because I cried but, damn, the film is my favorite film to date. It hurt me, but like I said, my favorite.
I first started crying when the little girl criend and her brother tried to get the last pieces of candy out of the can for her,and there was a little broken piece and instead of 3 whole pieces she ate just the tiny little bit of the broken piece,it broke my heart even more.. no child would do that,they would be greedy,wanting everything.. war changes people so much,sometimes in good ways,but how it changes people is hell,wars should stop... it's heartbreaking just thinking about this movie..
I have never cried so hard while watching a movie. I'm 22 but this movie turns me into a helpless little toddler while watching it. Heartbreaking. Fuck war. It should never happen.
I do understand how seita felt. He was a kid. He just wanted to help her sister. The aunt thought he was suposed to go to war. Would you leave your sister behind when your whole family had died? Even if Seita wasnt that much helpful, even if his pride got in the way, you stick with him. The aunt just rather let him die than have a "coward" in her house. And in the end, it's way harder watching your own sister die in your arms then to go to war, so idk who was the coward in the end.
I saw this film on TV a few weeks ago and it's very sad. I mean the brother and sister's family died and they have to survive on their own. I absolutely love this film. It's beautiful.
it's sad and all, but i just don't understand why the boy didn't just try and help out around his aunts house. all she wanted was for him to be a more useful. she was still in major cunt mode, but he's to blame for them dying.
@Bezsaki really? Death mother in the middle of a war, job and school where burnt and the boy actually sold all their belongins to buy rice before they even left the house, the aunt clearly didn't care about them specially seing the way she treated the girl, granted maybe the boy acted inmaturely sometimes but he was still a kid.
She felt no emphaty whatsoever about the situation these kids where on.
I´ve seen this movie once and i havent seen it again.....Its a really great movie, but at least you must have a lot of "courage" to watch it again......i remember watching it when i was 9 years old and I was crying sll the movie.....great movie, but reallly , really sad :( I recommend it but Im saying , youre going to cry ....
its sad, he was a good brother. but she died because she left him alone all day to eat dirt and dried frogs, causing her diarhea. Instead if losing his pride and live with his aunt, he insisted to leave and make her life miserable. i would have cried , but really. who leaves a little girl like that alone, esp with all that water. she cant even swim. yea yea its sad, but get real -.-
There's a Youtube video about the M-69 Incendiary Cluster, the weapon dropped by the B-29 aircraft in this movie, Grave of the Fireflies. Search "M-69 incendiary" and you'll see a black-and-white US Government information film on the manufacture and testing of this weapon that destroyed far more than the two atomic bombs ever did.
I am interested in watching this movie but I just hope it isn't a "All Americans are jerks" type of movie. I think its awful anytime innocent people get hurt during a war.
@jimbox114 no it's not. the only thing related to americans were the bombings at the beginning. The main part of the film was more critical towards a selfish japanese society; as almost none of the adults seita and satsuko meet cares about them.
I just watched this movie. I cried when it showed the part when she was alone at the shelter after she died. I was like "I'm not gonna cry..."*cries*. It is such a good movie, and I reccomend it.
@potatoQueenie They mean that people tend to forget the casualties of the war. The innocent lives that were lost because of something they weren't a part of. They came to tell us about the things that we forgot. And I'm thankful.
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OMFG this movie actually sucks. I could only bare to stand watch an hour of it. I guess i'm the only one that had the balls to say that. Sorry ppl I'm going to sleep ur reviews suck." why do fire flies have to die so soon" bullshit lol. So far in the movie it looks like he is the reason she died.
@roca21wear oh boy...if i ever had to meet you in person i would rip your skin off your fcking face. i hope your house gets fcking bombed just so i can laugh at you. :D
Just watched this, and I have to say- I could not stop crying at the end. I just couldn't stop. Brilliant movie. Whoever says anime/animation is for kids or they just flat out disregard it as silly or whatever(Dad...) needs to open their mind and watch this film. It was moving and emotional. I wish more films like this existed in todays recent years.
I just watched this. It's definitely the saddest movie I've ever seen. I cried from beginning to end. It was one sad thing after another, after another, after another. Wonderful film.
at the age of 35, japanese emperor signed the law to use the non-young people to service as fire-fighters in the mainland. one night, he helped his neighbours evacuate to the shelters. but he himself was killed by the incendiary bombs dropped by the american b29 war aircrafts flew from guam.
today, each of us should revisit ourselves as to what each of us can do for the better future. i like this movie.
This movie made me cry so many times!!! The first time I watched it with my BFF we cried our eyes out it was so sad!!!!! I must've done that at least 10 times....it was so sad and so good.
this movie literally brought me to tears i tried holding them back cus i was in my anime club when i watched this but it looked like everyone was trying to hold back their tears. best and saddest movie ever
This has to be one of the best movies of all time. I have only been able to watch it once, a few years ago, and for the rest of the day I could do nothing but lay in bed. It's heartbreaking and makes you feel empty at the end since throughout the whole movie all of your emotions are on a roller-coaster.
@thesleepoverclubse1 i feel the same exact way...its a great movie but if i saw it again idk if id handle it. when they put a natural death in an anime it really gets to you
dang even the trailer makes me wanna cry ='[ I saw half of this movie not all of it but when I saw the half of it it was soo sad but it was also really good the parts that I saw I need to see the rest of this movie lets hope I don't start to cry when I do watch the rest
I just go around to seeing this. It's not a bad film at all. The animation is fairly good and the subject matter (a boy on his smaller sister caught up in the whirlwind of the collapse of the Japanese Empire in WWII) is interesting. At times, the film is very powerful. The biggest problem is that one knows how the film will end in the first few minutes.
Free advice: Don't see the English dubbed version. The young sister's voice in the dubbed version is too weird to be effective.
I remember how my parents fell into the Anime-trap back in the days: It's animated so it's gotta be for children, right? For Children my ass! Dunno how old I was (somewhere in the 1-digit-range) but i DO know how this movie left me feeling empty and utterly confused.
@Wortschmied my parents fell in the trap themselves, whenever I watch anime films (and I'm 15) most of the time studio ghibli films...my dad is thinking wtf? Sports, cars, action films....but cartoon movies! I try to explain but he won't listen
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The greatest movie of all time...and one that I never want to see again. I cry from beginning to end. From the very opening scene, you are told what is going to happen. You know that, but you keep saying, "...that can't be right." It starts out incredibly sad...and gets more intense with every frame. This isn't merely anime...this is art of the highest order. Takahata's masterpiece Ebert's marvelous review speaks volumes. As the old folk song says, "Ain't gonna study war no more."
I was sobbing for 20 minutes. This is the most heart breaking film i've ever seen. How can they be so uncompassionate though? How could they? Movies like this make me look at war in disgust and utter hate.
When people talk about WWII it seems like we always lament only the american soldiers and the american people who died, but what about people like seita and setsuko? It seems like today in people's eyes, they don't matter. Out of all the WWII movies that I've seen, this is by far the best. It didn't need to have blood and gore for it to be a masterpiece, rather it touched your heart in a simple, more humane way, that takes real talent. Pearl harbor has NOTHING on this movie, NOTHING.
@xrosapastel I think the film shows that no side was particularly guilty. What the Japanese did during Pearl Harbor was just as terrible. This film shows both sides are guilty.
@luisrox94 as they should. It's a stupid movie in my opinion, they showed that movie in my history class when I was in high school. They wasted our time, they should have shown this movie instead.
@kimmimaroxjuugo You are very right. I watched it today for the first time actually and I could not stop bawling. It really touches your heart makes you feel for the movie and characters.
I recommend EVERYONE to watch this movie at least once in their life! It is an excellent movie and you won't regret watching it.
@ProudGraduate08 I watched it and honestly I didn't cry. I had a horrible feeling in my heart and a knot in my throat but I didn't cry and, I think I didn't because I was more angry than sad. It just seems unreal that people don't care about people like seita and setsuko when they decide to go at war. Either way, wonderful film.
@lexyisbob Its set in WW2 Japan, and the two kids mother dies in a bombing and they're forced to live on their own through a widespread famine attack. :( I haven't seen it yet.. gonna buy it soon... my uncle is 35, not an anime man, and even he said it was amazing
The late great French filmmaker Francias Truffaut once said that it would be impossible to make an anti-war movie. He said that was because that any anti-war film, no matter how great the message was, would end up glorfying war, any war. I wonder what he would say if he was alive to see this somber masterpiece.
Will everyone STOP fighting about the U.S. vs. Japan in WWII? It's easy for all of us to sit here and judge because we weren't alive during the actual events that this movie took place. If we were, and didn't know anything about Pearl Harbor or the A-Bomb beforehand, I can guarantee we'd all be singing a different song.
Let's not forget that Japan is not a completely innocent country when it comes to their own history during WWII.
Kari166 5 days ago
@Kari166 It's human nature to argue about who is right. And I find it completely normal to comment about WW2 in a movie about WW2.
TSAR373 1 day ago
i don't feel bad for the japanese. they still to this day do not apologize for starting the war, they're a bunch of assholes who blame the united states for everything. may the japanese killed or affected by the atomic bomb burn in hell along with hitler and stalin. i prayed for the families killed by the japanese.
bigman1171 2 weeks ago
@bigman1171 ...like America is any better. how would you like it, when your city gets destroyed by a nuclear bomb and you are suffering years later from the nuclear radiation.
huipuipui 2 weeks ago
@bigman1171 America was the aggressor. To stop them from forming the "asian prosperity sphere", America cut off oil to Japan and siezed all Japanese assets in U.S. banks. This severly hurt Japan economically and left them with a 2 year supply of oil. Japan decided to seize Indonesia to gain their oil reserves (sumatra and borneo). Japan needed to also secure the Phillipines to protect their shipping routes to the southeast pacific.
WOLFE221 1 week ago
@WOLFE221 Attacking the Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl harbor was not an act of aggression, but a strategic countermeasure to keep America from interfering with what they thought was necessary to survive as a nation. Blaming the Japanese for attacking Pearl Harbor is like a bully getting mad at a kid he picks on for fighting back...then firebombing his house and killing the kids family because he ended up with a black eye.
WOLFE221 1 week ago
i know that japan was the ones that were trying to take over the world and killing millions of people, torturing them, and so on, but i do feel bad for them, especially for those that were harmed in japan because of their greedy rulers, this movie is amazing...
dmzko 3 weeks ago
@dmzko lol no, we were not interested in taking over the world.
sawdudeful 2 weeks ago
Just finished watching Elfen lied.... I need to CRY MORE *goes to watch movie*
KetoHimashi 4 weeks ago
Okay!
I have to go look at something with a happy ending now...*sniff*
So many sad endings...I have been emotionally drained all night...
Sonamyfan92 1 month ago
@Sonamyfan92 The reality is often painful and sad.
stovnergutt 3 weeks ago
this movie sounds so good but i dont dare to watch it. i dont want to be heartbroken all over again when watching such anime movies. WHY DO ALL OF THE ANIME MOVIES HAVE SUCH devastating endings!!! out of 10 ive watched, 9 of them would have an ending which pissed me off. but i gotta admit all of them rendered me speechless. JAP ANIME MOVIES ARE THE BEST.
Recommended to watch:
- The girl who leapt through time (MY best so far :D)
- Howl's moving castle (2nd best :D)
lovelydude92 1 month ago
war is nice... decreases the human population... 6 billion is way too much... The alternative path is using condoms...
ADDICTED2MUSIC0 1 month ago
@ADDICTED2MUSIC0 Shut up asshole!!
aisr1990 1 month ago
This movie is nothing short of a masterpiece
iangarnettify 1 month ago
I loved this movie so much. I've been wanting to watch it again but man, a) It was so emotionally draining and b) I don't want to be "used to it"". You know when you watch a movie too many times and you don't like it as much after? Even so, one of the best movies ever by Studio Ghibli!
evilazulan 2 months ago 4
@evilazulan WOW. I described my feelings on this movie to my friend today EXACTLY as you just described it!
ppbonbon 1 month ago
Its amazing how close the world came to nuclear war in the 80s but no one on either side would let it happen. Maybe we're not so bad.
C05597641 2 months ago
I think it's important to keep in mind, this type of story is being played out in real life every day. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Africa etc. Right now, this very second many people are in a similar situation as the characters in this movie. As long as we feel the need to harm each other over differences of race, religion, money, oil etc etc...it will continue. Hopefully one day we learn it's just not worth it.
eranger1 2 months ago 24
@eranger1, it's not an anti-war movie.
Kari166 1 month ago
Anyone know the song they're playing?
LanahJoy 2 months ago
@LanahJoy ye im interested too
tikkymykk1 2 months ago
This made me cry from the first two minutes until the very last one. I hated myself because I cried but, damn, the film is my favorite film to date. It hurt me, but like I said, my favorite.
cr9ichikross 2 months ago
This teaches us all something. War is bad, so don't start em.
MapleAtk 3 months ago
this movie would tear my soul to watch it the second time :(
kgrahamization 3 months ago
I first started crying when the little girl criend and her brother tried to get the last pieces of candy out of the can for her,and there was a little broken piece and instead of 3 whole pieces she ate just the tiny little bit of the broken piece,it broke my heart even more.. no child would do that,they would be greedy,wanting everything.. war changes people so much,sometimes in good ways,but how it changes people is hell,wars should stop... it's heartbreaking just thinking about this movie..
ILYForeverYours 3 months ago
Watched this last night on Film4. So glad I did, it was an amazing film. One of a trio of films that has made me cry uncontrollably.
PureShock 3 months ago
I have never cried so hard while watching a movie. I'm 22 but this movie turns me into a helpless little toddler while watching it. Heartbreaking. Fuck war. It should never happen.
mehreenkasana 4 months ago
Having tears run down my face proves that I'm human, I have a heart just like many people who have seen this fantastic film!
goe5 4 months ago
I do understand how seita felt. He was a kid. He just wanted to help her sister. The aunt thought he was suposed to go to war. Would you leave your sister behind when your whole family had died? Even if Seita wasnt that much helpful, even if his pride got in the way, you stick with him. The aunt just rather let him die than have a "coward" in her house. And in the end, it's way harder watching your own sister die in your arms then to go to war, so idk who was the coward in the end.
JonhnyGrave108 4 months ago 3
I also recommend "Barefoot Gen" another Japanese war anime depicting the atom bomb.
Thegus0 5 months ago 2
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i watched this today, i swear by god never in my life my insides were moved this way i cant stop crying Y_Y
azurian016 5 months ago
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azurian016 5 months ago
I couldn't help myself......I cried so much
78September87 5 months ago 59
@78September87 agree.. i cried like a little baby with this movie
00paranoimia00 2 months ago
I saw this film on TV a few weeks ago and it's very sad. I mean the brother and sister's family died and they have to survive on their own. I absolutely love this film. It's beautiful.
beybladestar 5 months ago 3
it's sad and all, but i just don't understand why the boy didn't just try and help out around his aunts house. all she wanted was for him to be a more useful. she was still in major cunt mode, but he's to blame for them dying.
Bezsaki 5 months ago
@Bezsaki really? Death mother in the middle of a war, job and school where burnt and the boy actually sold all their belongins to buy rice before they even left the house, the aunt clearly didn't care about them specially seing the way she treated the girl, granted maybe the boy acted inmaturely sometimes but he was still a kid.
She felt no emphaty whatsoever about the situation these kids where on.
cichriz 4 months ago
cried my eyes out! :'( watched it a billion times and still briings tears to my eyes, if u cried it shows how much u care xx
starface4ev 5 months ago 2
every time i watch this film always makes me cry, beautiful film
MissJemencheta 5 months ago 3
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good movie and very sad
mintosmuzika 6 months ago
I´ve seen this movie once and i havent seen it again.....Its a really great movie, but at least you must have a lot of "courage" to watch it again......i remember watching it when i was 9 years old and I was crying sll the movie.....great movie, but reallly , really sad :( I recommend it but Im saying , youre going to cry ....
Bia9611 6 months ago 3
its sad, he was a good brother. but she died because she left him alone all day to eat dirt and dried frogs, causing her diarhea. Instead if losing his pride and live with his aunt, he insisted to leave and make her life miserable. i would have cried , but really. who leaves a little girl like that alone, esp with all that water. she cant even swim. yea yea its sad, but get real -.-
kinkyrebel 6 months ago
damn im like 21 years and this realllyyyyy broke the tears out of me !!!
heavyweiight 6 months ago
The trailer online is sad
halifaxx55 6 months ago
this is one truly sad movie, beautiful.
atticbits 6 months ago
There's a Youtube video about the M-69 Incendiary Cluster, the weapon dropped by the B-29 aircraft in this movie, Grave of the Fireflies. Search "M-69 incendiary" and you'll see a black-and-white US Government information film on the manufacture and testing of this weapon that destroyed far more than the two atomic bombs ever did.
mlovmo 6 months ago
this is truly a wonderful movie
I made a miniature replica of the candy can
youtube.com/watch?v=Jt1MURcvAHM&lc=UgexqEc0T7zzDEI8YyOGnSl5b_qY8P9R5NbK7qGOx7U&feature=inbox
wingsflyingmind 7 months ago
>spoiler the fireflies are radiation
malikkalekoko 7 months ago
I am interested in watching this movie but I just hope it isn't a "All Americans are jerks" type of movie. I think its awful anytime innocent people get hurt during a war.
jimbox114 7 months ago
@jimbox114 no it's not. the only thing related to americans were the bombings at the beginning. The main part of the film was more critical towards a selfish japanese society; as almost none of the adults seita and satsuko meet cares about them.
TheSitHamster 6 months ago
LETS GET THIS MOVIE ENOUGH VOTES TO GO FROM 124 TO 1 ON THE IMDB TOP 250
rfbarrington 7 months ago
i almost cried at the end...:'D
beatsupXD 7 months ago
I just watched this ONCE because it was so sad and depressing but yet this movie is so AWESOME!
Ghibli Studios and Hayao Miyazaki deserve more than one Oscar!
thekissinkate 7 months ago
@thekissinkate This isn't a Hayao Miyazaki movie, but I do agree
musicalminor 7 months ago
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Apparently this is a true story based on the Producer/ Director of this movie?
The only change is that the character in the movie died (That is what my friend told me).
NaruXoHina 8 months ago
I just watched this movie. I cried when it showed the part when she was alone at the shelter after she died. I was like "I'm not gonna cry..."*cries*. It is such a good movie, and I reccomend it.
Toru642 8 months ago
what did they mean by "We came to tell you the things you forgot."
potatoQueenie 8 months ago
@potatoQueenie They mean that people tend to forget the casualties of the war. The innocent lives that were lost because of something they weren't a part of. They came to tell us about the things that we forgot. And I'm thankful.
musicalminor 7 months ago
@musicalminor oh thx
potatoQueenie 7 months ago
Why does everyone have a point of view of WWII on the amarican side?
Bianca16161616 8 months ago
t i watched the movieit made me cry
xxbloodyxangelsxx 8 months ago
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OMFG this movie actually sucks. I could only bare to stand watch an hour of it. I guess i'm the only one that had the balls to say that. Sorry ppl I'm going to sleep ur reviews suck." why do fire flies have to die so soon" bullshit lol. So far in the movie it looks like he is the reason she died.
roca21wear 8 months ago
@roca21wear God you're bad at trolling. At least don't be so obvious about it,.
Gaaraguy13 8 months ago 3
@Gaaraguy13 huh "troling" nerd
roca21wear 8 months ago
@roca21wear Go be 14 somewhere else brah.
Gaaraguy13 8 months ago
@Gaaraguy13 ha ha ha nice one nerd
roca21wear 8 months ago
QQ
Gaaraguy13 8 months ago
@roca21wear Well, Everyone's entitled to their Own Opinion. But come on, Didn't you find any part of the movie Sad or Interesting..?...
lilmidget155 8 months ago
@roca21wear oh boy...if i ever had to meet you in person i would rip your skin off your fcking face. i hope your house gets fcking bombed just so i can laugh at you. :D
ICUatKFC 8 months ago
@ICUatKFC that would be a bit painful lol.
roca21wear 8 months ago
i cried in this! its just so true and magical and.... and.... and.... TTTTTTT3TTTTTTT
MakeupBlonde1 8 months ago
this is one of my favorite but i watch it only once because it's so sad
kikiwi0410 8 months ago
Just watched this, and I have to say- I could not stop crying at the end. I just couldn't stop. Brilliant movie. Whoever says anime/animation is for kids or they just flat out disregard it as silly or whatever(Dad...) needs to open their mind and watch this film. It was moving and emotional. I wish more films like this existed in todays recent years.
ImmatureShenanigans 9 months ago
Life sucks.
birdcagemind 9 months ago
This has to be one of the best films I have ever seen period, and I cried buckets, even watching the trailer sets me off again.
upfrontbear74 9 months ago
one of the few movies where the lead characters dies, nice.
videocritic2463 9 months ago
Four douchebags with hearts of stone do not like this film.
haraya4 9 months ago
This movie was really good it probably was one of the best japanese movie i seen
it made me cry :')
AQWTrueDragonSlayer 9 months ago
My eyes were leaking the whole time :'D
monkaygal007 10 months ago
I have never bawled more in my entire life.
aelyu123 10 months ago
This movies is on my top 10 sadest movies I have ever seen. It made me cried.
ogsound2 10 months ago
Greatest animation that touched every heart ever.
plugnaja 11 months ago
I just watched this. It's definitely the saddest movie I've ever seen. I cried from beginning to end. It was one sad thing after another, after another, after another. Wonderful film.
CalamityFromTheSky1 11 months ago 2
Thank you for posting.
My mother's father was born close to kobe japan.
at the age of 35, japanese emperor signed the law to use the non-young people to service as fire-fighters in the mainland. one night, he helped his neighbours evacuate to the shelters. but he himself was killed by the incendiary bombs dropped by the american b29 war aircrafts flew from guam.
today, each of us should revisit ourselves as to what each of us can do for the better future. i like this movie.
gojudaidesu 11 months ago
This movie made me cry so many times!!! The first time I watched it with my BFF we cried our eyes out it was so sad!!!!! I must've done that at least 10 times....it was so sad and so good.
lunartears123 11 months ago
i just saw this movie and i feel empty inside. It was so sad that i was shaking and teary eyed.
akamaru576 11 months ago
This movie is... so amazing...
I love how it isn't just a pro-Japan film, but it shows that all sides of WW2 were wrong.
RIP to all the innocent people that were killed. :(
KikyoChanXD 11 months ago 29
After I finished watching this, I just went to bed and bawled.
MorpheusTelos 1 year ago 5
I have the DVD!
085665372 1 year ago
so what is it about????????????
clairebearable1 1 year ago
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this movie
was HILARIOUS
leotheloser 1 year ago
@leotheloser ... in what way
ILikeLipstick 1 year ago
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Sorry but that is a very negative piece of film-making and totally unnecessary.
WatchRyder 1 year ago
@WatchRyder yeah right then go out and make yourself a movie and lets see how it turns out
Balliard0178 1 year ago
@Balliard0178
You give me the cash and carte-blanche from the controlled media and I'll gladly take you up on that offer.
The real deal films are very hard (but not impossible) to get made in today's climate.
WatchRyder 1 year ago
when i watched this film I cried for ten minutes straight.if you aint moved by the end of the movie,you have no soul
drumervin50 1 year ago 6
this movie literally brought me to tears i tried holding them back cus i was in my anime club when i watched this but it looked like everyone was trying to hold back their tears. best and saddest movie ever
capoeirista86 1 year ago
This has to be one of the best movies of all time. I have only been able to watch it once, a few years ago, and for the rest of the day I could do nothing but lay in bed. It's heartbreaking and makes you feel empty at the end since throughout the whole movie all of your emotions are on a roller-coaster.
Everyone should see this movie at least once.
JayFer 1 year ago 68
@JayFer The worst part for me is when she is eating rocks and then her brother has to burn her...
FameMonsterJr 1 year ago
@JayFer is it bloody or scary?
hviskerikke 1 year ago
@hviskerikke bloody, and scary in a sense that this really did happen to many children.
JayFer 1 year ago
@JayFer
I can't agree more
hannenal 3 months ago
this movie was incredible
cristianrockerchick 1 year ago
"We came to tell you the things that you forgot."
I almost cried then, and I've only seen the trailer.
extragrapes 1 year ago
i dont ever want to watch it again, it was so amazing, but when the baby girl died i cried so much, and the mum and brother :( most depressing film
thesleepoverclubse1 1 year ago
@thesleepoverclubse1 i feel the same exact way...its a great movie but if i saw it again idk if id handle it. when they put a natural death in an anime it really gets to you
capoeirista86 1 year ago
The Red Balloon was another like this; a toy has more soul than people. Amazing.
uemciicmeu 1 year ago
this movie made me cry when i was 8 years old, but it's so beautiful and i wanna watch it again ^_^
AAL2510 1 year ago 2
i wanna watch this movie but i feel like i'll just cry the whole time rather than enjoy it
nobuta10 1 year ago
If you dont shed a tear at any point in this movie you have no soul, period.
Rawsawn 1 year ago 3
"Why do fireflies have to die so soon?"
This movie is absolutely phenomenal. And I never want to watch it again. My heart couldn't bare it.
TrinneLovesAll13 1 year ago 6
Imma kill that bitch who voiced the lil sister in teh english dub, so fucking annoying...killed every touching moment
dawatcher88 1 year ago
I want to see this, it looks beautiful.
littlegurlini 1 year ago
@littlegurlini
well it IS beautiful!
in the comments someone said that it is better than titanic and 95 people said yes you´re right!
i cried 3 times in that movie!
MissPeacok 1 year ago
dang even the trailer makes me wanna cry ='[ I saw half of this movie not all of it but when I saw the half of it it was soo sad but it was also really good the parts that I saw I need to see the rest of this movie lets hope I don't start to cry when I do watch the rest
summerrose123 1 year ago
the little girl pissed me the fuck off
jubbjubb155 1 year ago
I just go around to seeing this. It's not a bad film at all. The animation is fairly good and the subject matter (a boy on his smaller sister caught up in the whirlwind of the collapse of the Japanese Empire in WWII) is interesting. At times, the film is very powerful. The biggest problem is that one knows how the film will end in the first few minutes.
Free advice: Don't see the English dubbed version. The young sister's voice in the dubbed version is too weird to be effective.
FiendsInRedSatin1 1 year ago
=[ im usually a big fan of anime, manga and studio ghibli, and this is just the saddest film they ever produced.
emmianime 1 year ago
I remember how my parents fell into the Anime-trap back in the days: It's animated so it's gotta be for children, right? For Children my ass! Dunno how old I was (somewhere in the 1-digit-range) but i DO know how this movie left me feeling empty and utterly confused.
Wortschmied 1 year ago
@Wortschmied my parents fell in the trap themselves, whenever I watch anime films (and I'm 15) most of the time studio ghibli films...my dad is thinking wtf? Sports, cars, action films....but cartoon movies! I try to explain but he won't listen
dawatcher88 1 year ago
too bad I already got the ending fucking spoiled!!! the movie looks great though
PFreakyPFister 1 year ago
This is such a gorgeous and ultimately heartbreaking film. Anyone who doesnt get affected by it in anyway must be made of concrete.
wenger1972 1 year ago
I wish more people knew about this movie. It's sad that these types of movies only appeal to a certain group of people. </3
dearlove09 1 year ago 11
excrement Yankees, nor to speak of this film, because you did this. thus if you are Yankee closes the ass, you do not comment he does not give verguenza them? you the Grone says to it
NeloAngelloDark 1 year ago
The greatest movie of all time...and one that I never want to see again. I cry from beginning to end. From the very opening scene, you are told what is going to happen. You know that, but you keep saying, "...that can't be right." It starts out incredibly sad...and gets more intense with every frame. This isn't merely anime...this is art of the highest order. Takahata's masterpiece Ebert's marvelous review speaks volumes. As the old folk song says, "Ain't gonna study war no more."
Kamisamadesu1 1 year ago 19
@Kamisamadesu1 so this movie kinda proves that if your family dies they go to heaven...........
tomatid1 6 months ago
first and only animated movie that ever made me cry
HimMa14 1 year ago
I was sobbing for 20 minutes. This is the most heart breaking film i've ever seen. How can they be so uncompassionate though? How could they? Movies like this make me look at war in disgust and utter hate.
nite90210 1 year ago 2
This movie is the greatest anti war movie ever made.
everything is perfect, its impossible not to cry after watching this.
Studio Ghibli is the best!
herwendy09 1 year ago
sadest animated movie i've ever seen :(
sandwichandguitarboy 1 year ago
I just finished watching this film a few minutes ago. I was still sobbing after the movie ended.
xrosapastel 1 year ago
この映画を見るたびに，戦争をした（している）国のどこかにきっと彼らのような子どもがいるんだろうと思う
nantokireina 1 year ago
goodness. this is so beautiful and so so so so so sad!
supermaeve2 1 year ago
When people talk about WWII it seems like we always lament only the american soldiers and the american people who died, but what about people like seita and setsuko? It seems like today in people's eyes, they don't matter. Out of all the WWII movies that I've seen, this is by far the best. It didn't need to have blood and gore for it to be a masterpiece, rather it touched your heart in a simple, more humane way, that takes real talent. Pearl harbor has NOTHING on this movie, NOTHING.
dearlove09 1 year ago 55
@dearlove09 Amen. How can anyone compare the attack on Pearl Harbor to attacking an entire country, a country that couldn't even defend itself.
xrosapastel 1 year ago 2
@xrosapastel I think the film shows that no side was particularly guilty. What the Japanese did during Pearl Harbor was just as terrible. This film shows both sides are guilty.
EmilyGreene1984 1 year ago 2
@dearlove09: You kiddin'? Everyone, even WWII veterans, despise Pearl Harbor.
luisrox94 1 year ago
@luisrox94 as they should. It's a stupid movie in my opinion, they showed that movie in my history class when I was in high school. They wasted our time, they should have shown this movie instead.
dearlove09 1 year ago
@dearlove09 pearl harbor movie was shit.
eelsevilla 1 year ago
@dearlove09 Not to mention that we NUKED a heavily populated city of civilians...
pshaw951 9 months ago
This movie was brilliant. So depressing, but BRILLIANT. Amazing and touching, it hits you.
Onasariel 1 year ago 2
The music playing really reflects how sad the movie is :(
nirvana911 1 year ago
Just watching this has made me cry...
:'(
kimmimaroxjuugo 1 year ago
i haven't seen the movie yet but the trailer almost made me cry!
WHY DID ALL THE FIREFLIES HAVE TO DIE
touwuaniynof 1 year ago
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i'm sorry but i can't cry to a cartoon it just not the same
sachmaster23 1 year ago
@sachmaster23
Have you even watched it yet?
If you haven't,then I suggest you watch it straight away. You'll be proven wrong. This film is more HUMAN,more REAL than any live-action movie.
kimmimaroxjuugo 1 year ago
@kimmimaroxjuugo You are very right. I watched it today for the first time actually and I could not stop bawling. It really touches your heart makes you feel for the movie and characters.
I recommend EVERYONE to watch this movie at least once in their life! It is an excellent movie and you won't regret watching it.
xBethaniixClairex 1 year ago
I tried so hard not to cry and i managed only to shed a tear from watching this movie
DzAbdo85 1 year ago
"Grave of the fireflies" is a great movie.
But it's truly sad.
MysteryFoodX 1 year ago
Perhaps this is a movie that a hard hearted person should be forced to watch. But a clinical psychopath could not be sad when watching it however.
I cried just reading a review of it.
NorseMaiden 1 year ago
This is the trailor and I almosted cried
Yaoilover951 1 year ago 5
it's impossible to see this movie without crying. Seriously, it hits all points of emotional extent.
ProudGraduate08 1 year ago 6
@ProudGraduate08 I watched it and honestly I didn't cry. I had a horrible feeling in my heart and a knot in my throat but I didn't cry and, I think I didn't because I was more angry than sad. It just seems unreal that people don't care about people like seita and setsuko when they decide to go at war. Either way, wonderful film.
dearlove09 1 year ago
what is this about?
lexyisbob 1 year ago
@lexyisbob Its set in WW2 Japan, and the two kids mother dies in a bombing and they're forced to live on their own through a widespread famine attack. :( I haven't seen it yet.. gonna buy it soon... my uncle is 35, not an anime man, and even he said it was amazing
Soni758 1 year ago
its ok if you have cried in this movie i wont make fun of you for that
skullreap999 1 year ago
does it lose anything in english? Hope not
dianuo 2 years ago
@dianuo
> does it lose anything in english? Hope not
It was unfortunately poorly dubbed so you almost have to watch the subtitled verison.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
This movie is so sad.
StudioGhiblifan1241 2 years ago 8
i finished this movie yesterday, gosh! sooo moving, BEAUTIFUL
goldangel100 2 years ago 15
So sad and yet beautiful
pabloDAjanitor13 2 years ago 5
anyone got any must-see anime recommendations?? im new to this genre of movie..thanks!
bhav213 2 years ago
"spirited away" cant be beaten or "princess mononoke" or " whisper of the heart"
pabloDAjanitor13 2 years ago 6
@pabloDAjanitor13 spirited away is good!!!!
goldangel100 2 years ago
princess mononoke is definatly one of the best
lafongy 2 years ago 2
@bhav213 anything ghibli
InsomniaDonkey 2 years ago
i wanna see it
sacajuwea1 2 years ago
yes but didnt miyazaki do the artwork i kno his stuff before someone says by miyazaki he did the artwork im sure of it iv seen 90% of his stuff
TheGIRROX 2 years ago
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LoveFCU 2 years ago
looks amazing
WetKant 2 years ago
this is definitly one of the saddest movies ive ever seen! it was so amazing and beautiful though.
AlsoIntoCats66 2 years ago 66
diddo
pabloDAjanitor13 2 years ago
definitely! this is the most somber film ever made.....i'd almost cried!!!
hephaestion143 1 year ago
@AlsoIntoCats66 is it bloody or scary?
hviskerikke 1 year ago
The late great French filmmaker Francias Truffaut once said that it would be impossible to make an anti-war movie. He said that was because that any anti-war film, no matter how great the message was, would end up glorfying war, any war. I wonder what he would say if he was alive to see this somber masterpiece.
poughkeepsiejohn1 2 years ago 148
@poughkeepsiejohn1
I cried when I saw your comment! Thank you!
Torrente986 1 year ago