“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 ...

Japanese animation giant Studio Ghibli is renowned for light-hearted classics like My Neighbour Totoro but 30 years ago it released Grave of the Fireflies, a war anime with a powerful message that ...