Hayao Miyazaki--火垂るの墓 Grave of the Fireflies

iblog992009-08-25



In the April 16, 1988 release in Japan Dongbao Department of Cinema, film length 88 minutes; film had been some Western film critics as the most influential one of the anti-war film. In late October 2005 to commemorate the World War II, Japanese television produced by end of the war six decades, "End of the War Sixty Special series" series of three TV drama version of unit one of them.
Japanese culture, a symbol of the human soul Firefly; soul has been described as a floating, swaying of the fireball, while the fireflies similar.
Hayao Miyazaki film premiere of the ease with comedy, "My Neighbor Totoro" Even with the field mapping, but the film directed by Hayao Miyazaki Isao Takahata is not the only two are the same Studio Ghibli Chupin.


During the war, the mother was killed in the airstrike, but also as the Navy's father died in the war. 14-year-old Cheng Tian's Day with a young child staying at aunt's house. However, the two siblings do not want Jirenlixia, then moved to live in a cave lake. As long undernourished body Setsuko weak day by day, but as a brother's sincerity was no way to fields. Finally Setsuko the night sky in a firefly to leave him. Soon Cheng Tian has also died. Setsuko the dark holding her brother's hand, happily eating candy, a sky full of fireflies fly joyfully, as if to congratulate them finally found happiness.

"Grave of the Fireflies" is Isao Isao for the first time directed at the GHIBLI movies, award-winning, has a high reputation at home and abroad.

"Showa 20 years, September 21, I died." This is the beginning of lines. His mother died in the raid, fled their homes to clear the 14-year-old sister, Setsuko Wo, two people had each other in the war. Objectively speaking, from the beginning of the story know the final result. Let's work with two dead people have to look back on their previous life bar!

The whole film completely immersed in a dark, desolate atmosphere, quiet manner. The story is about the Second World War in Japan, the two siblings became orphans in the war, because they were forced to take care of distant relatives can not get along and to the nearby abandoned bomb shelter to live under the ultimate escape starvation and die one after another .

Brother and sister died when almost all the audience's tears away, indeed the whole story is a tragedy, the film begins with flashbacks of the way by two brothers and sisters, soul and linger where fireflies come out of the tragic story, the audience's heart immediately have been sunk and a half of the.

Creative people through this film to accuse the atrocities of war, as well as to people warning the scourge of war. Hope that we can try to avoid the appearance of a war.