I totally agree with his idea that this film being animated adds a lot emotional connection with the characters. When you watch them slowly wilt and struggle against their physical ailments its immensely moving because they only exists in one realm, if they die...thats it. With real life actor we feel similar emotions but in the back of our mind we know its just an actor that we will see on the red carpet or the Tonight Show. But for these characters, they're encompassed by only one reality.
this movie is so powerful. i've watched it twice and it never fails me in making me cry. it's sad to know that in war, the innocents are the one that suffers most. it maybe an animation but its more realistic in every way..
"The fact that the story is realistic and the artistic approach is stylistic works, by not having not having two levels of realism clash against each other" This is why I like anime. Not the crap fan service stuff.
Wow, I was surprised how much Roger Ebert understands about anime when he said that anime's/manga big eyes were influence from disney movies. He's totally right, Osamu Tezuka, which was the one who started with that style, was always drawing disney and american cartoons when he was younger.
Grave of the Fireflies is one of the most hauntingly beautiful films I have ever seen, animated or live-action. I was moved to tears several times as I watched but I cried like a baby during the ending and for about 5 more minutes as the credits rolled. It isn't an easy movie to watch, I cannot recommend it enough.
Rest well with the fireflies. The only critic I ever really paid attention to. Just shows how much this person leaves an impact, or how much he influences many movie viewers. Again, rest well Mr. Ebert.
I'm 56 years old. My mental codition was unstable after seeing this movie. When I saw a small girl on the street, tears dropped from my eyes because of Setuko in this movie. It was so moving film ever made.
im super proud of you Mr. roger to make this movie .im really really appreciate of this movie super beautiful story ........when i watching this movie my tears i cant control to flow super touching ................Thank you for making this video...........
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this is one the only movies i can count on a hand that made me break down in tears. i still haven't met any person who saw this movie with me or by themselves who did not explode in tears when it ended.
This movie is based on a book, written by an author who lost his sisters during WWII. It his way of apologizing to one of them for, in his opinion, being the reason she died from malnutrition. He's blamed himself ever since (even though he obviously couldn't do anything) and in my eyes thats pretty fucking beautiful. Shut up and don't disrespect the dead! War is and always will be horrible, for both sides!
I cried when I first saw this movie 13 years ago. I showed it to my sister the next day and she cried. I had to hug her and wipe her tears. That following night, I showed the movie to my parents. My dad kept standing up and getting beer to avoid crying. My mom teared up. I teared up in all three viewings.
when i first saw this film iwas awestruck ,it is amazing ! i absolutely recommend this ! if you only watch one anime ....ever ...watch this ! oh and rest in peace Ebert!
what a refreshingly impartial analysis. especially at 4:45, i'm impressed with how ebert espouses the sort of initiation process that must take place within the person engaging an art form/style that is unfamiliar, relative to that person's experience, to secure one's arrival at an informed (or "objective") opinion. this is relevant to all artistic disciplines, and personally, has only made me more able to genuinely enjoy the breadth of musical diversity that encompasses our history.
I hate to say it, but Roger made a terrible mistake if he's watched the English dub. Most professional critics agree that the English dub is sub-standard. I fortunately, watched the Japanese version with English subtitles.
This is rapidly becoming my favourite war (or anti-war?) movie of all time. I'm a 41 yr old Englishman and I don't mind admitting that this film moves me to tears everytime I watch it.
Grave of the Fireflies: The saddest movie in the world... However, it's a shame that it's not available outside of Japan... Memories of the war are fading I hope the Reiwa generation will also watch it now.…
He makes a point here that I've been stressing for a long time. In animation, there is no clash between perception of the actors in a story and the meaning of the story itself. A distressing image in a live action film begins to conflict with your perception that those are real live actors undergoing. Animation is a purer form because you can stylistically communicate an idea and its meaning without the faces of actors getting in the way.
So when I was but a kid, I think in 1988. The movie was rented by my older brother. That was the movie my family was like, hey your a kid, go watch something...here. grave of the freaking fire flies. Ni wonder why I have many truamas. I can't even watch this anine anymore as it will dismantle me! ....I just can't. A wonder masterpiece it is!
me too man. I got a headache after watching this movie. It was so emotional and sad. I walked around my room because i did not know what the fuck else to do. I cried so much.
The scene where Seita is assaulted by the farmer was very moving, and Setsuko is pleading his name to stay with her. It's just emotional on so many levels.
when i watched this movie I was expecting something like My neighbour totoro or ponyo or spirited away and i was completely surprised by the sadness of this film, this is literally the only movie in my life where I was actually reduced to tears
Would you believe that I saw this movie at first because my friend saw it in a TV magazine marked as 'comedy'. It was beautiful and great but damn, it was depressing. I grilled my friend so much the next day after watching it and expecting a comedy lol. Still, great movie, and good on Ebert for seeing anime as it truly is.
i love roger ebert's opinion of the film. i think it was better to use this as an anime film and to give the viewers an idea of what was going through their heads as opposed to seeing them literally struggle....it helps to give more suspense and a more universal appeal to what the movie was about...
@TheHouseOffice I have an iron heart and usually I don't let films get me to get teary eyed. I sat through Toy Story 3 without a sniffle. But Grave of the Fireflies? No matter how many times I watch it, I always get teary-eyed.
this is film is heartbreaking, devastating!!! Seldom have I seen a better movie yet I had to often pause the film as the sadness of the scene was so hard to take in!!
For me Grave of The Fireflies is one of the most powerful films ever made about war and it's true victims. I watched the original Anime about 3 years ago and I've just watched the Japanese live action version. The live action version is excellent. But the anime has the edge in my opinion
the thing about this tragedys is that there is no hipocrisy,no romanticism,there are no miracles no magic no idealized themes no lies there is just life depicted in its casual neutral force it depicts how things are and not how they should be which makes us ask why its like this?why isnt life as we want it to be.That only reveals our small onesided egoist view of life that we will never change.
i hoped you finish watching it. at least to get the feeling of what perhaps could have been a true story. we may never know but i think you should watch it entirely. i did and it made me reflect alot of what we take for granted in modern times....
This is based on a semi-autobiographical novel. In other words, based on the real life experiences of the author. He wrote the novel, Grave of the Fireflies, which was later adapted to an anime movie, in hope for atoning for his failure to save his sister's life in post-WW2 Japan. And I can guess, he might also be seeking forgiveness for surviving despite all that. Of course, it's not seeking forgiveness from his sister really, but from himself. She died in a similar manner to Setsuko.
you have your opinion and actually, yes I agree with you on some level there is a level of preachy manipulation inside of this film, but I find it hard to get really mad at director Takahata for it, because it was during a time when the youth of Japan NEEDED this message to be preached to them, and even if you hate it for that, you can't deny that the pacing, animation, and everything done on a stylistic level was done fantastically.
Its obvious that the person who hates anime doesn't even know what anime is, anime is to relate in someway to our lives,American cartoons, no matter what the pretty shapes look like has no real substance.(Few do however) Story wise, I enjoy anime because of the stories it can produce and how relatable they can be, therefore a story should be judged as a story, not just some simple piece of animation, kimba the white lion kills the shit out of anything that disney has come up with.
if you think this is a spoiler don't worry because the first line of the film (before any credits even appear on screen), is the protagonist describing exactly how things end for him.
My cousin's husband spent part of his childhood in a japanese internment camp here in the states... our government did sucky things too. I don't see anything wrong in a man being proud of his service to his country, but that is not what this film is about. The boy was proud of his father, and at no point did he go on a tirade about the 'Evil Americans'. This is about the effect of war on civilians, more specifically it is also about survivor's guilt on the part of the book's author.
Roger is right about an actress not being as effective. A great example is Pet Semetary where a kid plays a zombie. I didn't buy it; all I saw was a child actor in makeup. But an animated kid zombie would be scary as hell.
The film was shown as the second part to a double feature in Japan. My Neighbor Totoro was the first part and was meant for children while this was meant for adults. As one can expect the movie did terrible in theaters since most people couldn't bear watching the whole movie and walked out.
War is war, no side is purely "right". Enemies and allies and countries are made up of humans, and no people are purely "right" and no one is perfect. Some enemies in the past are our allies now and some allies of the past are now enemies, but it is not them or their race or their country at fault. It's their nature at fault, no different from our nature, which is also at fault at times. Don't let the fact that a country is our enemy bring you to hate its people as a whole.
I understand your point, but this movie is about children. They had to survive the war regardless of who started it. It is still pretty heartbreaking for the kids who had to suffer during this period of violence. BTW, I am Korean American and really enjoyed this film because of how well they portrayed how war effects everyone in horrible ways regardless of the side.
It is, but it has an additional meaning for the young Japanese people it was intended to be made for. Takahatas true meaning behind the movie is lost to an American audience, but it just happens to work well as a general anti-war film too. Edbert is just reviewing it as an American watching it and how he interpreted it.
The autor said that he feels guilty about the dead of his little sister because he was never capable of doing the noble acts depicted in the movie, he was nothing like the boy in this movie at all. When he had food he ate it all and felt bad about not sharing it with his sister, and that's why she died. This is not as evident in the movie, but hinted, there are some instances when he eats and doesn't give her food, and waits too long to get the mother's money to buy food. Sorry about my english
I'm sorry, I'm going to feel really stupid for saying this, but I was thinking of watching this movie and I was curious to see a review. I was just wondering if there were going to be any spoilers in this review, and if you were to reply to my comment with an answer, I would very much appreciate it.
OK. (was kinda hoping for a laundry list of stereotypes, TBH ;) Ebert's explanation is adequate. I didn't suss the Disney influence. I think it mostly has to do with communicating emotion with facial expressions. The nose is small because we don't emote with our noses as much as our eyes which are huge in the anime style. Also, having a "generic" or abstract face helps you export your product to other countries. Japan exports ALOT of culture relative to the number of nihongophones out there.
@TheTheDeclaration The film is not offensive, I am a Filipino and my Grandparents witnessed the terror of WWII, thats why I understand your opinion. but honestly at that time, kids has nothing to do with their leaders or their parents ideologies... yet they are the ones who suffered the most. God bless those people who suffered because of Failed ideologies of their leaders.. and remember.. Germany, Italy, and Japanese already learn from that mistake... sorry for the bad english.. peace!
I'm sad to say to those who interpret this as an anti-war film, Isao Takahata said it wasn't intended as such and that it was intended to be a gentle message about juvenile delinquency and the consequences it holds for others. But either way, this movie succeeds. Takahata portrayed Seita as very likable and caring, but ultimately with the tragic flaw that leads to his sister's suffering and death. They definitely undergo undeserved suffering but even sympathetic Seita faces consequences.
If anyone knows the name of the movie about a girl who flew down to earth to stay with her aunts. Please put it up. I be happy. Its been years since i seen the movie. I dont remember the name
Ironically enough, not too long ago I saw a movie about the child of a Nazi officer. The one in charge of camps. He ended up making friends with a Jewish boy stuck in one of them and the movie ends with him being mixed in with the Jews and gassed accidentally. I would hardly say the film was "ethically challenged."
There are no real spoilers in Grave of the Fireflies: the film opens by telling you the main character dies, and by implication his sister. You know it's coming.
You know, when going into his talks about why animation works as a medium for this film Ebert inadvertently explained why anime or animated films and feature-lengths are a completely different form of medium, entertainment, and art from a live-action film. There is a reason why things don't translate well when trying to evoke the same feeling or emotion from an animated movie to a live-action translation or vice versa. You're dealing with two completely different forms of expression.
I totally agree with his idea that this film being animated adds a lot emotional connection with the characters.
When you watch them slowly wilt and struggle against their physical ailments its immensely moving because they only exists in one realm, if they die...thats it. With real life actor we feel similar emotions but in the back of our mind we know its just an actor that we will see on the red carpet or the Tonight Show. But for these characters, they're encompassed by only one reality.
this movie is so powerful. i've watched it twice and it never fails me in making me cry. it's sad to know that in war, the innocents are the one that suffers most. it maybe an animation but its more realistic in every way..
Animation is an art
"The fact that the story is realistic and the artistic approach is stylistic works, by not having not having two levels of realism clash against each other"
This is why I like anime. Not the crap fan service stuff.
Wow, I was surprised how much Roger Ebert understands about anime when he said that anime's/manga big eyes were influence from disney movies. He's totally right, Osamu Tezuka, which was the one who started with that style, was always drawing disney and american cartoons when he was younger.
The world needs more Roger Eberts 😔
Grave of the Fireflies is one of the most hauntingly beautiful films I have ever seen, animated or live-action. I was moved to tears several times as I watched but I cried like a baby during the ending and for about 5 more minutes as the credits rolled. It isn't an easy movie to watch, I cannot recommend it enough.
This and The Passion of THE CHRIST are my favorite movies
This is one of the best movie's I've ever seen.
Rest well with the fireflies. The only critic I ever really paid attention to. Just shows how much this person leaves an impact, or how much he influences many movie viewers. Again, rest well Mr. Ebert.
I'm 56 years old. My mental codition was unstable after seeing this movie. When I saw a small girl on the street, tears dropped from my eyes because of Setuko in this movie. It was so moving film ever made.
The first time I saw this, I couldn't stop crying.
im super proud of you Mr. roger to make this movie .im really really appreciate of this movie super beautiful story ........when i watching this movie my tears i cant control to flow super touching ................Thank you for making this video...........
Just watched this, truly heart wrenching. So beautiful.
I cried each time Setsuko did.
He was so astute. I miss his critiques but am grateful for the legacy he left.
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this is one the only movies i can count on a hand that made me break down in tears. i still haven't met any person who saw this movie with me or by themselves who did not explode in tears when it ended.
one of the only movies that has ever moved me to tears, and i can't even remember any of the other ones.
This movie is based on a book, written by an author who lost his sisters during WWII. It his way of apologizing to one of them for, in his opinion, being the reason she died from malnutrition. He's blamed himself ever since (even though he obviously couldn't do anything) and in my eyes thats pretty fucking beautiful.
Shut up and don't disrespect the dead!
War is and always will be horrible, for both sides!
Do try watching once, it really deserves watching.
Even tho this movie takes all the happiness from your soul for a while and haunts you forever, it’s a beautiful piece of art
This piece of art broke my heart, and I've been picking up the pieces ever since.
Great review, rest in peace Mr. Ebert
I Cry to Grave of the Fireflies
true is one of the greatest war movie
I cried when I first saw this movie 13 years ago. I showed it to my sister the next day and she cried. I had to hug her and wipe her tears. That following night, I showed the movie to my parents. My dad kept standing up and getting beer to avoid crying. My mom teared up. I teared up in all three viewings.
It makes me cry vary badly....
I miss Ebert. Love him or hate him he had a view and loved art.
I watched this movie 10 years ago & it still haunts me.
when i first saw this film iwas awestruck ,it is amazing ! i absolutely recommend this ! if you only watch one anime ....ever ...watch this ! oh and rest in peace Ebert!
You really can hear the lump in his throat as he says "It moved me just about to tears".
what a refreshingly impartial analysis. especially at 4:45, i'm impressed with how ebert espouses the sort of initiation process that must take place within the person engaging an art form/style that is unfamiliar, relative to that person's experience, to secure one's arrival at an informed (or "objective") opinion. this is relevant to all artistic disciplines, and personally, has only made me more able to genuinely enjoy the breadth of musical diversity that encompasses our history.
I hate to say it, but Roger made a terrible mistake if he's watched the English dub. Most professional critics agree that the English dub is sub-standard. I fortunately, watched the Japanese version with English subtitles.
gcHK47 yeah, i agree, so much that’s missed, flattened, in that version
I never saw the dubbed version, and thank goodness. Just hearing parts of it in this video was enough for me.
This is rapidly becoming my favourite war (or anti-war?) movie of all time. I'm a 41 yr old Englishman and I don't mind admitting that this film moves me to tears everytime I watch it.
Grave of the Fireflies: The saddest movie in the world...
However, it's a shame that it's not available outside of Japan...
Memories of the war are fading
I hope the Reiwa generation will also watch it now.…
@@ポォロロ you can find it on Amazon in DVD, Blu Ray formats. But it's expensive but worth it.
@@Videolandexpress
It's true that you can buy it in Japanese stores, but I've only seen it on TV once, so I don't think I'll ever buy it.…
He makes a point here that I've been stressing for a long time. In animation, there is no clash between perception of the actors in a story and the meaning of the story itself. A distressing image in a live action film begins to conflict with your perception that those are real live actors undergoing. Animation is a purer form because you can stylistically communicate an idea and its meaning without the faces of actors getting in the way.
The only anime movie that has ever made me cry :( Beautiful film
the saddest movie iv ever seen in my life.
So when I was but a kid, I think in 1988. The movie was rented by my older brother. That was the movie my family was like, hey your a kid, go watch something...here. grave of the freaking fire flies. Ni wonder why I have many truamas. I can't even watch this anine anymore as it will dismantle me! ....I just can't.
A wonder masterpiece it is!
Amazing review - deep, probing, analytical. I wish I could review films all day.
me too man. I got a headache after watching this movie. It was so emotional and sad. I walked around my room because i did not know what the fuck else to do. I cried so much.
The scene where Seita is assaulted by the farmer was very moving, and Setsuko is pleading his name to stay with her. It's just emotional on so many levels.
when i watched this movie I was expecting something like My neighbour totoro or ponyo or spirited away and i was completely surprised by the sadness of this film, this is literally the only movie in my life where I was actually reduced to tears
Would you believe that I saw this movie at first because my friend saw it in a TV magazine marked as 'comedy'. It was beautiful and great but damn, it was depressing. I grilled my friend so much the next day after watching it and expecting a comedy lol. Still, great movie, and good on Ebert for seeing anime as it truly is.
So teue. Ebert is like from another century
He understood this movie perfectly
i love roger ebert's opinion of the film. i think it was better to use this as an anime film and to give the viewers an idea of what was going through their heads as opposed to seeing them literally struggle....it helps to give more suspense and a more universal appeal to what the movie was about...
@TheHouseOffice I have an iron heart and usually I don't let films get me to get teary eyed. I sat through Toy Story 3 without a sniffle.
But Grave of the Fireflies? No matter how many times I watch it, I always get teary-eyed.
i remember in the late 80's when the book came out...it was just unbelievable
this movie was, without a doubt, the saddest movie i've ever seen. no other movie has done half as good a job at emotionally drawing me into it.
this is film is heartbreaking, devastating!!! Seldom have I seen a better movie yet I had to often pause the film as the sadness of the scene was so hard to take in!!
For me Grave of The Fireflies is one of the most powerful films ever made about war and it's true victims. I watched the original Anime about 3 years ago and I've just watched the Japanese live action version. The live action version is excellent. But the anime has the edge in my opinion
I stay dry eyed, till the end. - then i bawled
This movie show how war is really like you see movies that make war look exiting but really this is what its like
100% correct! It's war itself, and the people who provoke it who should be ostracized, not individual countries.
the thing about this tragedys is that there is no hipocrisy,no romanticism,there are no miracles no magic no idealized themes no lies there is just life depicted in its casual neutral force it depicts how things are and not how they should be which makes us ask why its like this?why isnt life as we want it to be.That only reveals our small onesided egoist view of life that we will never change.
Rest in peace.
LETS GET THIS MOVIE ENOUGH VOTES TO GO FROM 124 TO 1 ON THE IMDB TOP 250
i hoped you finish watching it. at least to get the feeling of what perhaps could have been a true story. we may never know but i think you should watch it entirely. i did and it made me reflect alot of what we take for granted in modern times....
roger definitely sums up why i become so emotionally attached to anime and not live action
This is based on a semi-autobiographical novel. In other words, based on the real life experiences of the author. He wrote the novel, Grave of the Fireflies, which was later adapted to an anime movie, in hope for atoning for his failure to save his sister's life in post-WW2 Japan. And I can guess, he might also be seeking forgiveness for surviving despite all that. Of course, it's not seeking forgiveness from his sister really, but from himself. She died in a similar manner to Setsuko.
roger ebert lost his lower jaw and it didnt slow him down.
thats about as badass as a film critic can get.
R.I.P. Ebert
I miss Roger Ebert :")
His review his good to learn from.
you have your opinion and actually, yes I agree with you on some level there is a level of preachy manipulation inside of this film, but I find it hard to get really mad at director Takahata for it, because it was during a time when the youth of Japan NEEDED this message to be preached to them, and even if you hate it for that, you can't deny that the pacing, animation, and everything done on a stylistic level was done fantastically.
Its obvious that the person who hates anime doesn't even know what anime is, anime is to relate in someway to our lives,American cartoons, no matter what the pretty shapes look like has no real substance.(Few do however) Story wise, I enjoy anime because of the stories it can produce and how relatable they can be, therefore a story should be judged as a story, not just some simple piece of animation, kimba the white lion kills the shit out of anything that disney has come up with.
The book has the same title, Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies), although I don't think it is available in English.
if you think this is a spoiler don't worry because the first line of the film (before any credits even appear on screen), is the protagonist describing exactly how things end for him.
My cousin's husband spent part of his childhood in a japanese internment camp here in the states... our government did sucky things too.
I don't see anything wrong in a man being proud of his service to his country, but that is not what this film is about. The boy was proud of his father, and at no point did he go on a tirade about the 'Evil Americans'. This is about the effect of war on civilians, more specifically it is also about survivor's guilt on the part of the book's author.
I love this movie..... ❤
Roger is right about an actress not being as effective. A great example is Pet Semetary where a kid plays a zombie. I didn't buy it; all I saw was a child actor in makeup. But an animated kid zombie would be scary as hell.
The film was shown as the second part to a double feature in Japan. My Neighbor Totoro was the first part and was meant for children while this was meant for adults. As one can expect the movie did terrible in theaters since most people couldn't bear watching the whole movie and walked out.
well spoken.
War is war, no side is purely "right". Enemies and allies and countries are made up of humans, and no people are purely "right" and no one is perfect. Some enemies in the past are our allies now and some allies of the past are now enemies, but it is not them or their race or their country at fault. It's their nature at fault, no different from our nature, which is also at fault at times. Don't let the fact that a country is our enemy bring you to hate its people as a whole.
I understand your point, but this movie is about children. They had to survive the war regardless of who started it. It is still pretty heartbreaking for the kids who had to suffer during this period of violence. BTW, I am Korean American and really enjoyed this film because of how well they portrayed how war effects everyone in horrible ways regardless of the side.
"Here... you have the idea of a little girl that's starving and that's what moves you."
This movie made me cry xD
Studio Ghibli is something amazing and all its own
A great, great film.. another animated film that is almost as sad/emotional is When The Wind Blows... would be a great/harrowing double-feature.
It is, but it has an additional meaning for the young Japanese people it was intended to be made for.
Takahatas true meaning behind the movie is lost to an American audience, but it just happens to work well as a general anti-war film too. Edbert is just reviewing it as an American watching it and how he interpreted it.
i miss ebert.....
RIP
I didnt know there was an english dub of the film but either way the films superb.
The autor said that he feels guilty about the dead of his little sister because he was never capable of doing the noble acts depicted in the movie, he was nothing like the boy in this movie at all.
When he had food he ate it all and felt bad about not sharing it with his sister, and that's why she died.
This is not as evident in the movie, but hinted, there are some instances when he eats and doesn't give her food, and waits too long to get the mother's money to buy food.
Sorry about my english
I'm sorry, I'm going to feel really stupid for saying this, but I was thinking of watching this movie and I was curious to see a review. I was just wondering if there were going to be any spoilers in this review, and if you were to reply to my comment with an answer, I would very much appreciate it.
OK. (was kinda hoping for a laundry list of stereotypes, TBH ;)
Ebert's explanation is adequate. I didn't suss the Disney influence. I think it mostly has to do with communicating emotion with facial expressions. The nose is small because we don't emote with our noses as much as our eyes which are huge in the anime style. Also, having a "generic" or abstract face helps you export your product to other countries. Japan exports ALOT of culture relative to the number of nihongophones out there.
@hobomainia
yes it is without a doubt , i dont think any movie will ever come close to this
@TheTheDeclaration
The film is not offensive, I am a Filipino and my Grandparents witnessed the terror of WWII, thats why I understand your opinion. but honestly at that time, kids has nothing to do with their leaders or their parents ideologies... yet they are the ones who suffered the most. God bless those people who suffered because of Failed ideologies of their leaders..
and remember.. Germany, Italy, and Japanese already learn from that mistake...
sorry for the bad english.. peace!
i cried a bit when she was eating the mud balls....
life when people fail to at least to understand a fellow person.
i cried :)
I'm sad to say to those who interpret this as an anti-war film, Isao Takahata said it wasn't intended as such and that it was intended to be a gentle message about juvenile delinquency and the consequences it holds for others.
But either way, this movie succeeds. Takahata portrayed Seita as very likable and caring, but ultimately with the tragic flaw that leads to his sister's suffering and death. They definitely undergo undeserved suffering but even sympathetic Seita faces consequences.
If anyone knows the name of the movie about a girl who flew down to earth to stay with her aunts. Please put it up. I be happy. Its been years since i seen the movie. I dont remember the name
Ironically enough, not too long ago I saw a movie about the child of a Nazi officer. The one in charge of camps. He ended up making friends with a Jewish boy stuck in one of them and the movie ends with him being mixed in with the Jews and gassed accidentally.
I would hardly say the film was "ethically challenged."
the saddest movie i have ever seen =(
It's silly to be in America, while not mention to Vietnam as if nothing is happening.... SO TRUE
Well, for starters, they could have slanted or almond-shaped eyes.
There are no real spoilers in Grave of the Fireflies: the film opens by telling you the main character dies, and by implication his sister. You know it's coming.
i want to see this movie too, but i afraid that the same effect happened to you will happened to me too
What is the book called? I'm really interested in reading it. Would it be available on amazon or anything like that?
wow............
You know, when going into his talks about why animation works as a medium for this film Ebert inadvertently explained why anime or animated films and feature-lengths are a completely different form of medium, entertainment, and art from a live-action film.
There is a reason why things don't translate well when trying to evoke the same feeling or emotion from an animated movie to a live-action translation or vice versa. You're dealing with two completely different forms of expression.
Where's the second part of this interview?