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starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Rhoda Chrositedirected by: Isao Takahata
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781562190514
Format: Animated, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1562190512
Label: Central Park Media Corporation (I) (II)
Manufacturer: Central Park Media Corporation (I) (II)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Central Park Media Corporation (I) (II)
Release Date: November 01, 1993
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 467
Studio: Central Park Media Corporation (I) (II)
Theatrical Release Date: 1988
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Isao Takahata's powerful antiwar film has been praised by critics wherever it has been screened around the world. When their mother is killed in the firebombing of Tokyo near the end of World War II, teenage Seita and his little sister Setsuko are left on their own: their father is away, serving in the Imperial Navy. The two children initially stay with an aunt, but she has little affection for them and resents the time and money they require. The two children set up housekeeping in a cave by a stream, but their meager resources are quickly exhausted, and Seita is reduced to stealing to feed his sister. Despite his efforts, she succumbs to malnutrition. Seita painfully makes his way back to the devastated city where he quietly dies in a crowded railway station.
The strength of the film lies in Takahata's evenhanded portrayal of the characters. A sympathetic doctor, the greedy aunt, the disinterested cousins all know there is little they can do for Seita and Setsuko. Their resources, like their country's, are already overtaxed: anything they spare endangers their own survival. As in the Barefoot Gen films, no mention is made of Japan's role in the war as an aggressor; but the depiction of the needless suffering endured by its victims transcends national and ideological boundaries. --Charles Solomon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Incredible film, a must see
I rarely take the time to review movies or any other products that I order online, even if I really like them. But this is a true standout.
This is a tremendous film. It's focus is an aspect of WWII and the use of the atomic bomb that westerners, including myself, have managed to ignore. It concerns the lives of Japanese commoners during and after the war.
Anyway, I am a big tough guy, not prone to emotional displays of any type, but I really cried after this movie. I mean that ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful tear jerker
I bought this after seeing it on Funination. It is a very sad tale, a 10 Kleenix at least but has much to offer in the way of art, Japanese culture and will show anyone interested that soldiers aren't the only ones who suffer in war!
Rating: - My favorite movie of all time
Hands down. Powerful. My desert island movie even with nothing to play it on, just in case aliens with DVD players arrive to save me.
In my book, no movie ever made comes close to the brilliance that is this movie. Your life is not complete until you've seen it.
Rating: - An experience like no other.
I had to pay a hefty price for this movie used from an Amazon vendor, but I found a like new copy and was glad I did as this is one of most emotionally driven anime... no, one of the most emotionally driven movies I've ever seen. The dark and depp colors used during the landscape and battle scenes will look beautiful, but it is eerie when combined with the sad, dark and sometimes macabre storyline. Everyone needs to see this movie at least once.
Rating: - hayao miyazaki
This movie is sad and extremely moving. It is based on the lives of a brother and his young kid sister and the events they have to endure during WWII. I've never cried for any movie except this for this one. I remember watching this movie with my brother until 2am and I head to my room and he head to his for bed. We saw each other in the morning at 7am. We confirmed that either of us slept that night, constantly thinking of the sad tale (even the ending credits's images displayed sad events that ... Read More
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