In the waning years of World War II, most of Japan has been devastated by Allied bombing operations. The struggling nation is losing the war fast, and it people desparate for the conflict's end.
Among these people is a young boy named Seita and his even younger sister Setsuko.
The story of these two children in Grave of the Fire-flies is a vast contrast to many if not most of the rest of Studio Ghibli's titles. Rather than colorful, bright, and generally happy movies, this film shows the horrors and misfortunes of war a lot better than a number of big-time "Hollywood" action movies, and it does so with almost no big-scale battle scenes or massive amount of people dying. In this regard, Grave of the Fireflies is quite materful.
