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Grave Of The Fireflies (Hotaru No Haka) 90 minutes, Japan (1988), 12
(4.0)
Rating: 4.0 Stars
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Average user rating (4.9 / 162 votes)
Grave Of The Fireflies

Animated drama set in Japan toward the end of WWII. Two children fall on hard times as a result of the war, and try to go it alone

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Grave Of The Fireflies: Hailing from Studio Ghibli, home of Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away), Grave Of The Fireflies is a sophisticated, deeply moving film, adapted from Akiyuki Nosaka's 1967 semi-autobiographical novel by Isao Takahata.

It concerns the fate of two children, struggling to survive in Japan toward the end of the Second World War...
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