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He noted that the film followed the neorealist tradition of Italian filmmakers like De Sica or Rossellini, telling its story of two war victims simply and directly without over-relying on melodrama. grave of the fireflies roger ebert

I have seen this film three times. I will never watch it again. But I am grateful it exists. It is one of the greatest war films ever made—indeed, one of the greatest films, period. See it once. Bring no children. Bring no snacks. Bring only the knowledge that animation is not a genre, but an art form capable of expressing the deepest registers of human pain. Grave of the Fireflies: The haunting relevance of Studio

Directed by Isao Takahata, the film is based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka. The movie follows Seita, a young boy, and his sister Setsuko, as they face unimaginable hardships, including hunger, illness, and the trauma of war. I will never watch it again

Ebert called it the most realistic animated film he had ever seen "in feeling". He believed the animated format allowed the audience to focus on the idea of the characters' suffering—like the "idea of a starving little girl"—rather than getting bogged down in the literalism of live-action.