![]() ![]() While falling, the tin can opens and fireflies escape which transform into the spirit of a young girl, which is later found out to be Seita‘s younger sister Setsuko, who has also died a bit before him. After dying, officers find his body and a candy box that he was holding, which they throw outside without giving it too much thought. The movie starts with showing Seita, the older sibling, dying in a train station while the words ‘ September 21, 1945…That was the night I died’ (Takahata, 1988, 0:00:04) can be heard. The movie is based on a novel written in 1967 by Nosaka Akiyuki and discusses the story of fourteen-year-old Seita and four-year-old Setsuko, who are trying to survive in Kobe, Japan in 1945 during the second world war (Scherer, 2016). Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no haka) is a Japanese anime drama movie published in 1988 through Studio Ghibli.
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