Grave of the Fireflies was directed and written by Isao Takahata, produced by Toru Hara and was made by Studio Ghibli. It was released in Japan on April 16th, 1988 alongside Hayao Miyazaki's "My Neighbor Totoro" and is 89 minutes long or 1 hour and 29 minutes long.
For the next Ghibli review video, here is, what could be, the most depressing thing I have ever seen in my short life. Let’s just hope christmas can get me out of the slump this movie put me through.
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Hey, what is going on everybody? My name is Payne, and welcome back to another anime review video, and as promised, this is another Ghibli review video, and as you can see from the thumbnail, I'm not really too happy about this video.
Not because that's bad or anything, but it's just, this is the most intense movie or show that I have reviewed so far, and for anyone who has seen the movie before or know what this movie is, you know exactly why.
For anyone who has never heard of this movie before, you're gonna find out why. So here is the one, the only, Grave of the Fireflies.
Grave of the Fireflies is a war and drama film directed and written by Isao Takahata, produced by Toru Hara, and was made by Studio Ghibli.
They go live with their aunt at her place, but they later leave their aunt's house, as she keeps saying that they did nothing of worth to stay there and eat their food.
They later find a new home out of an underground shelter or cave, but later discover that they are running out of food, leaving Setsuko to suffer from malnutrition.
The movie ends with Seita finding out that Japan had surrendered from World War II, and while returning to the underground shelter with a lot of food and news that the war is over, he unfortunately finds that Setsuko had died of malnutrition.
But he changes that by showing how vulnerable Seita and Setsuko were at certain points in the film, in other words, most of the movie, making it almost impossible not to worry about them at some points.
After the film was released, there was also a common belief from fans and critics that this was an anti-war film, to which Takahata repeatedly said that no, this is not an anti-war film and this doesn't have an anti-war message.
And what it has instead is that he was trying to convey an image of Seita and Setsuko living a failed life due to isolation from society and trying to invoke sympathy, particularly in the younger demographic, late teens, early twenties.
I'm gonna be honest here, I really don't want to criticize this movie in any form, even when it deserves it, but that's what a reviewer does. I mean, I decided to be a reviewer, and I might as well do it.
In other words, every sad and depressing thing that happens in the final half hour of this movie is all Seda's fault. That's fucked up. It's because his ego got hurt. It's because his pride got hurt.
The dub was really good, there was really nothing that really stood out about that, but then I heard that in the sub, I watched the sub, they had a 5-year-old girl voice Setsuko, and even she was really good. I gotta give her props for that.
And with that, my name is Payne, and I definitely promise that I'll be way more excited and way more hyped in the next video, and I'll see you in the next video then.
