“Grave of the Fireflies” is based on an original short story by Akiyuki Nosaka (1930-2015), who won the prestigious Naoki literary prize for the work. It portrays a pair of war-displaced ...

The story begins about a year before the end of World War II. Fourteen-year-old Seita and his little sister Setsuko are seemingly-normal Japanese kids, trying to survive amidst the regular air ...

Grave of the Fireflies is based on Akiyuki Nosaka’s Naoki Prize-winning short story. The story is set in Kobe during the ...