Grave of the Fireflies - Blu-ray Steelbook Edition

Japan, 1945. The country is on the verge of surrender. Every day, American planes drop bombs from the sky, setting entire regions ablaze. In the inferno of one such attack, fourteen-year-old Seita and four-year-old Setsuko lose their mother. Without their father, who is in the Navy and whom they haven't heard from in a long time, the children are suddenly on their own. Their aunt, with whom they initially stay, is anything but welcome to these additional hungry mouths in the prevailing famine. So the siblings move into an abandoned bunker and try to survive there on their own. Despite all the suffering, Seita does everything in his power to give his little sister the most carefree childhood possible, and the two actually spend a few happy weeks there. But the terrible reality of the relentless war soon catches up with them... This film, produced by Ghibli (including 'Spirited Away') and based on a semi-autobiographical novella by Akiyuki Nosaka, is both touching and disturbing. It dramatically illustrates how children, especially the innocent victims of war, are. Rating: Particularly valuable!