GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (REMASTERED EDITION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1988
• Genre: Animation, Drama, Foreign, War
• Plot: As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies. This is the story of Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, two children born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to shelter them, but simply the resources. Forced to fend for themselves in the aftermath of fires that swept entire cities from the face of the earth, their doomed struggle is both a tribute to the human spirit and the stuff of nightmares. Beautiful, yet at times brutal and horrifying. ; ; Based on the retellings of survivor Nosaka Akiyuki and directed by Iaso Takahata (co-founder, with Hayao Miyazaki, of Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli,) Grave Of The Fireflies has been universally hailed as an artistic and emotional tour de force. Now digitally remastered and restored, it is one of the rare films that truly deserves to be called a masterpiece.
• Cast: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi, Kôzô Hashida, Masayo Sakai, Kazumi Nozaki, Yoshio Matsuoka, Masahiro Kanetake, Kiyoshi Yanagawa, Hajime Maki, Atsuo Omote, Teruhisa Harita, Hiroshi Tanaka, Michio Denpô, Shirô Tamaki, Tadashi Nakamura, Mika Sekita, Mariko Miyamoto, Atsushi Matsumoto, Haruko Matsuda, Keiko Ueda, Kazuhiko Takeoka, Kiyomi Ajisaka, Makio Ueno, Toyokazu Hiramatsu, Kyôko Moriwaki, Takashi Shimatani, Ryûji Sanada, Tamotsu Kuni, Haruo Kaji, Toshiko Ama, Makoto Kobayashi, Ken'ichi Sawada, Ikuo Kokubu, Yûsuke Yokoyama, Yoshinaga Fusamoto, Kôshirô Tanimoto, Masato Moriya, Tetsurô Nakayama, Naoki Fujita, Masafumi Jôno, Tsukasa Ban, Makiko Kinoshita, Senkoku Yukuhara, Yûko Kurokawa, Mayumi Kawaguchi, J. Robert Spencer, Corinne Orr, Amy Jones, Veronica Taylor, Nick Sullivan, Shannon Conley, Crispin Freeman, George Leaver, Dan Green, Adam Gibbs, Emily Neves, Marcy Bannor, Shelley Calene-Black, Luci Christian, Justin Doran, Susan O. Koozin, Andrew Love, David Matranga, Rob Mungle, Sam Roman, Blake Shepard, David Wald, Isao Takahata, Akiyuki Nosaka
• Director: Isao Takahata
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: Sentai Filmworks
• Media Format: Movie