One was Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro, a soft breeze of joy wrapped in childhood wonder, and the other was Isao Takahata’s Grave of the Fireflies, which felt like getting your soul wrung ...

The English screenplay is nearly unaltered from their earlier subtitled version (this is a good thing), and the parts are well-cast overall. Seita's acting is by far the best, and only two ...

The cast performs well and perfectly captures ... been criticized by some for being too manipulative, Satou’s Grave of the Fireflies is an immersive exercise in emotional distress.

Grave of the Fireflies will feature a bunch of voice artists. The character Orphans Seita has been voiced by Tsutomu Tatsumi and Setsuko has been voiced by Ayano Shiraishi. Reacting to the trailer ...

Although this film differs from Studio Ghibli’s typically more uplifting and hopeful films, Grave of the Fireflies still definitely deserves to be on everyone’s watchlist since it illustrates ...

Earlier Ghibli Steelbook releases featured a uniform design, with a character from the film ... but 1988’s Grave of the Fireflies is among the studio’s most emotionally intense, focusing ...

Critics at the time warned audiences that “Grave of the Fireflies,” directed by Isao Takahata (1935-2018), had a tragic storyline and was best viewed only once. The film was released by ...

and heartwarming characters. Films like Kiki’s Delivery Service and Howl’s Moving Castle offer fantasy escapes. However, Grave of the Fireflies is different. It tells the devastating real ...

Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin ...