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Dual Language: English & Japanese
It is post-war Japan, just weeks before the American occupation, In the city of Kobe, a boy lies in a train station. Beside his body lies a small candy container. A janitor, unsure what to make of its ashy contents, pitches it into the night. As fireflies float softly around it, the ghostly images of the boy and his little sister appear...
Flashback to a short time earlier. Orphaned and homeless from a fire-bomb attack on their city, 14-year-old Seita and his 4-year-old sister, Setsuko, set out to survive in the face of a society that is no longer able to protect them. Forced to live in an abandoned bomb shelter in the Japanese countryside, they slowly come to realize that they can never escape the hardships of war, or even find enough food to survive...
1994 First Prize as 'Best Animated Feature' at the Chicago Children's Film Festival.
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Chapter Stops
Character Gallery
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Historical Background | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
JAPANESE: Dolby Digital Stereo
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| Studio: Central Park
Production Year: 1988
Release Date: 8/3/1998
Length: 88 mins
Rating: NR
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-SL
Item Code: 1729
UPC Code: 719987172920
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Overall Rating: 4.03 out of 5, including 8 reviews
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One of the best animated movies ever made. - 4 out of 5 (10/4/2004)
This Studio Ghibli release is not an average cartoon movie. The story shouldn't be revealed in too much detail, but....this movie is SAD.
Not for kids. (Even though the movie was released originally as a double-feature with "My Neighbor Totoro".)
The basic "motif": two kids remain the only survivors after an American bombing-raid during WWII that wipes out their town. They try to make it on their own but the surroundings are not always hospitable.
This may sound boring - and if you like T
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One of the most amazing animated films ever created - 3.75 out of 5 (3/27/2001)
A very emotional film with a great story. This movie proves that anime can be much more than blood and guts.
Absolutly amazing!
This film was shown at Roger Ebert's underapreciated film festival in 1999
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One of the best movies ever, but... - 3 out of 5 (3/28/2000)
It's such a shame... Nothing to say about the movie, it's just EXCELLENT ! Really, one of the best anime ever.
But about the DVD...
When I opened it, I saw a reply card addressed to Universal Studios. I thought "Oh oh... It reminds me something... I hope it's better than the poor work they did on Conan...".
Unfortunately, I was wrong. The image sucks.
I advise this DVD to everyone anyway (the movie is so good !), but you have to be warned that the image is not very good. Once you got us
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