Grave of the Fireflies
Grave of the Fireflies follows two siblings trying to survive after an air raid. Its subject is civilian vulnerability in wartime, making it a very different choice from an escapist family fantasy.
The people at the centre
GKIDS describes Seita and Setsuko losing their mother and struggling for shelter and food. Studio Ghibli’s filmography credits Akiyuki Nosaka’s work as the source and Isao Takahata as screenwriter and director. The film and My Neighbor Totoro share a 16 April 1988 Japanese release date in the preserved catalogue.
Sources: GKIDS: Grave of the Fireflies · Studio Ghibli official filmography · Media Arts Database (MADB), National Center for Art Research · Selected/processed by GIZUMO
A comparison that keeps the difference visible
As an editorial pairing, In This Corner of the World also makes war visible through ordinary routines. One useful question is whose work sustains a household, and what happens when that support fails. This is a thematic comparison rather than an assertion that the stories or historical circumstances are interchangeable.
Sources: GKIDS: Grave of the Fireflies
Before choosing it for a group
Expect death, hunger and intense distress involving children. Animation and a Ghibli association are not sufficient age-suitability information. Check the local classification and discuss the themes with anyone choosing the film for younger viewers. The source record does not establish a current screening, stream or home-video edition.
Sources: GKIDS: Grave of the Fireflies
Editorial sources, scope and rights
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Original GIZUMO editorial text and limited factual paraphrase. Linked reference pages retain their own rights; the source-data licence below does not license their text or images. No source photographs, film stills, scans or maps are reproduced.
- Media Arts Database (MADB), National Center for Art Research · Selected/processed by GIZUMO
Identity and factual fields in the preserved dated source record; no new live-status verification
- GKIDS: Grave of the Fireflies
Premise and explicitly stated work/edition information
- Studio Ghibli official filmography
Source-work and director credits
Preserved source record and metadata
Original title: 火垂るの墓 English title supplied by the source. Selected creator credit: Isao Takahata Original selected credit: 高畑勲 Publisher/distributor source credit: 東宝 Source publication date: 1988-04-16 Source metadata modified: 2024-11-25 11:21:32 (timezone not supplied) Prior reviewed selected credit retained from exact text in schema:creator; not an exhaustive staff list. Publisher means schema:publisher, not animation studio. English credits are retained only for exact matching source text. Source: MADB, National Center for Art Research, pinned official release 1.2.20. Original MADB metadata is freely reusable under its dataset-specific permission statement; GIZUMO selected and processed these metadata fields. No complete archive, covers, film stills, characters or underlying-work rights are claimed.
- creator
- Isao Takahata | 高畑勲
- publisher
- Toho | 東宝
- release Year
- 1988
- original Title
- 火垂るの墓
- source Date Published
- 1988-04-16
- source Modified Text
- 2024-11-25 11:21:32 (timezone not supplied)
Media Arts Database (MADB), National Center for Art Research · Selected/processed by GIZUMO