Overview - Grave of the Fireflies

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama

Runtime: 148 minutes

Homepage: Grave of the Fireflies

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

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Spoken Languages

  • 日本語

Production companies

  • Name: Nippon Television Network Corporation

    Production country Japan

Overview

Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed and Kyoko is killed. Hisako is forced to take care of Kyoko's two children in addition to her own, but there is not enough food for everyone.

Cast

  • Name: Hoshi Ishida

    Character: Yokokawa Seita

    Popularity: 0.9531

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  • Name: Mao Sasaki

    Character: Setsuko

    Popularity: 0.6786

  • Name: Ikki Sawamura

    Character: Kiyoshi

    Popularity: 2.1967

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  • Name: Yui Natsukawa

    Character: Kyoko

    Popularity: 2.0861

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  • Name: Nanako Matsushima

    Character: Hisako

    Popularity: 2.1644

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  • Name: Mao Inoue

    Character: Natsu,Keiko

    Popularity: 1.4628

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  • Name: Mayuko Fukuda

    Character: Hana

    Popularity: 1.3903

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  • Name: Jun Kaname

    Character:

    Popularity: 1.7787

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