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Grave of the Fireflies

Hotaru no haka

Optimum Home Entertainment (1988)

NR (Not Rated)

814131011831

8.5

381,553

Animation | Anime | Drama | War

Japan | Japanese | Color | 01:33

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In the latter part of World War II, a boy and his sister, orphaned when their mother is killed in the firebombing of Tokyo, are left to survive on their own in what remains of civilian life in Japan. The plot follows this boy and his sister as they do their best to survive in the Japanese countryside, battling hunger, prejudice, and pride in their own quiet, personal battle.

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	Tsutomu Tatsumi	Seita
	Ayano Shiraishi	Setsuko
	Yoshiko Shinohara	Mother
	Akemi Yamaguchi	Aunt
	Kôzô Hashida	Obayashi Chairman
	Masayo Sakai	Woman who takes care of Setsuko
	Kazumi Nozaki	Cousin
	Yoshio Matsuoka	Gosaku
	Masahiro Kanetake	Aunt's house guest
	Kiyoshi Yanagawa	Patrolman
	Hajime Maki	Man who arrests Seita
	Atsuo Omote	Person in bank
	Teruhisa Harita	Station worker
	Hiroshi Tanaka	Person in bank
	Michio Denpô	Station worker
	Shirô Tamaki	Person in bank
	Tadashi Nakamura
	Mika Sekita	Nurse
	Mariko Miyamoto
	Atsushi Matsumoto	Kid with fishing tackle
	Haruko Matsuda
	Keiko Ueda
	Kazuhiko Takeoka	Kid with fishing tackle
	Kiyomi Ajisaka	Person in bank
	Makio Ueno	Kid with fishing tackle

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Director	Isao Takahata
Writer	Akiyuki Nosaka, Isao Takahata
Producer	Joey Goubeaud, Toru Hara, John Ledford, John O'Donnell, Ryoichi Sato, Stephanie Shalofsky, Eiichi Takahashi, Shin'ichirô Ueda
Musician	Michio Mamiya
Photography	Nobuo Koyama

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Edition details

Edition	Blu-Ray Edition
Packaging	HD Case
Nr Discs	1
Screen Ratios	Widescreen (1.78:1) Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio Tracks	DTS [English] DTS [Japanese] SUB [English] Stereo [English] Stereo [Japanese]
Subtitles	English
Distributor	Sentai Filmworks
Layers	Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date	Nov 20, 2012
Regions	Region 1 \| Region A