I swear I am not a very emotional person but I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and am still traumatized to experience this movie again 😂 I am still not watching the reaction
I watched it this year for the first time... and even though I didn't cry... I felt like I had been torn apart from the inside out. It was a unique experience that unfortunately I can't recommend.
For those of you who shed tears while watching this work. Don't forget that we are friends who can share the same feelings even though we are from different countries and languages. I hope that there will be no more wars in this world.
The auntie in grave of fireflies represents all the attitudes of relatives when children are orphaned throughout Asia. My mom was an orphan during the Vietnam war after she lost both her parents. Her paternal uncle took her in but the aunt and uncle treated her differently from their kids. She was given more chores and not as much gifts or clothing because she was considered "an orphan and a waste of money". I think grave of fireflies show this very well about orphan children being mistreated by relatives.
Aunts and uncles like that must have hated their sibling, to treat their kid like that. I dont understand such attitude. They are the surviving legacy of your dead sibling. Why treat them like that?
no, this movie is trying to show wars can turn good people into evils, cuz they are also panicked about their own lives and they are mentally overwhelmed. In that situation, taking in other kids can become a huge burden. In the video, the lady keeps saying it’s the untie’s fault but it’s not. It is the war. Japan vs USA. The US did not hesitate to kill innocent civilians in the most cruel way.
53:24 In real life, the author admitted he actually did not do so as often as the book and movie portrays. He said he often found himself eating what he found and it was one of his greatest regrets. The book was an apology to his sister, and Seita (an insert for himself) dying was how he felt should've happened to himself. He was about 13-15 and it's just really sad since they were both kids
the theme of people being more focused on self preservation than helping others makes even more sense now. Dude was literally projecting this on all the characters that didn't help them out. Fuck me
It is one of the most saddest and most wonderful things about the movie. It is so sad that Takahata has now passed away a few years ago now, but I’m glad he was able to give this to the world while he could.
I find that makes it even more tragic because the idea of this character being this "best" version of himself that does the things he wishes he had and it *still doesn't help* is fucking brutal.
At the beginning of the movie, B-29 of the American army dropped a incendiary bomb called "M69" on the city of Kobe. The M69 was designed to efficiently burn down Japanese cities, which have many wooden buildings, by burning napalm using TNT explosives as a detonator. The M69 is a small cluster bomb with 38 bombs stored in a parent bomb called the E46, and after dropping, the M 69 stored at an altitude of 700 m is spread and burnt out over a wide area. When the M69 fell, it seemed like it was rain of flames because the explosives used to separate the M69 from the E46 ignited a long blue cloth called a streamer attached to the tail of the M 69, making it look like it was falling. When the M69 penetrated the roof of a house and collided with the floor or the ground, it was ignited by a time fuse 3 to 5 seconds later. The maximum height of the fire pillar was 100 ft, and the surrounding buildings were immediately burnt away. Since the napalm burning agent of M69 was a gelatinous and sticky liquid with a high clay content, it could not be removed by flushing with water if it adhered to the human body, and many people could not escape from the napalm burning agent, which they could never remove while alive, and they were burned to death. Normally, a B -29 carries 40 E46 cluster bombs and an E46 contains 38 M69 bombs, so 1520 M69 bombs per B -29 were dropped on Japanese cities. In the Kobe air raid described in the movie on June 5, 1945, 474 B-29 bombers dropped a total of 720000 ~ 1140000 bombs, which weighed about 3079 tons of M69, and about 21% of Kobe City was lost and 530,000 people lost their homes and families, and about 10,000 people died. Tokyo suffered the most from the M69, with 1 million people losing their homes and 100,000 dying overnight in an air raid on March 10, 1945. In Japan as a whole, 560,000 people have died and 15 million have lost their homes. However, due to the nature of the incendiary bombs, the victims were burned to the point of being burned to the extent that they became charcoal alive, so it is not possible to identify them, but the bodies of the victims were destroyed by the wind and rain, and there are many people whose bodies have not been identified and are still missing, so the exact number of victims has not been determined yet. Even if they escaped into air-raid shelters to prevent the blast, many people were suffocated to death by being deprived of oxygen in the fire of incendiary bombs or died of being steamed by high temperatures. After the air raids, the dust and dust of houses burned to the ground and turned into charcoal were blown up into the sky by the warm updraft generated by a large-scale fire, so the moisture in the sky was often stuck to the dust and black rain fell. The Japanese army developed new fighter aircraft and new antiaircraft artillery, and succeeded in shooting down about 400 B-29, but because B-29 and P-51 fighters of escort were high performance (The B-29 was an incredibly powerful World War II bomber, carrying a 20,000 lbs bomb and flying at 400mph at 30,000ft.)and were used in too many air raids(During World War II, a total of about 2500 B-29 s were used in air raids against Japan, escorted by 10,000 P-51s.), the air raids on Japan which started in June 1944 did not stop until August 15, 1945, when World War II was gathering. The air raids on the Japanese mainland, along with the Dresden air raid on Germany by the allied forces, were the most efficient military operations in human history that succeeded in burning down a large number of civilians in a short period of time. Seita's father was on board the heavy cruiser Maya. Maya sank in the Battle of Leyte Gulf on October 23, 1944 after being hit by four torpedoes during a battle with the U.S. Navy fleet. 336 people sank with Maya, and 769 escaped and were rescued by the battleship Musashi of the same type from the biggest battleship in World War II, Yamato. However, the next day, on the 24th, the Battleship Musashi was also sunk by the US Naval Air Corps, which was attacked by a total of 208 aircraft for 10 hours, and was hit with 17 bombs and 20 torpedoes. The American army was shocked that Musashi would not sink even if he had been hit by so many bombs and torpedoes, and later when the same type of ship, Yamato, was sunk, they carried out a strategy of attacking only one side and overthrowing it. Maya's crew members, who were on board, joined the battle in cooperation with Musashi's crew, and 117 more died in the battle, and eventually 450 Maya's crew members died in the battle. mean, at the beginning of the story, Seita's father was dead ... And this movie is a work that adds a little fiction to the real experience of the author of the original novel, and the author actually lost his sister to starvation by war. The author survived but killed himself in the story out of guilt for not protecting his sister. In the final scene, the souls of Seita and Setsuko are looking at the present city, with the message that such tragedies are not fiction, but a reality that is still happening somewhere in the world. I pray that such a tragedy will never happen again.
@@AK-tx9cc if you want to talk about unarmed civilians, how about the things your country did to my home country, the Philippines? The Rape of Manila! The Bataan Death March! Comfort Women! Then there’s Unit 731, where Imperial Japan experimented on people. You’re in no way innocent in killing unarmed civilians. The US wasn’t even officially in WW2 until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Do NOT bring up the past, if you cannot face your own past.
I promised myself that I'm not gonna watch this movie ever again, but here I am crying while watching your reaction. One of the saddest movie I've ever seen.
Sad fact. The movie was an apology to his sister. The author actually made the kid in the movie a better human being, by giving his sister some food. In reality, he did not give his sister food, he ate it first.
What’s worse is this still happens today. It’s just in other places. This movie is one of the hardest things I’ve ever watched but it’s a movie that needs to be seen. These children are innocent but the more wars we fight the more they will end up like these two.
I agree absolutely. But in their specific case it wasn't just the war. Their insanely selfish and borderline evil aunt also played a big role in it. I will never understand how some people can treat children like that and less orphans, which you are related to.....But sadly people like this really exist.
This movie is just it’s so beautiful. It’s the only movie I have only watched one time. It’s so sad so tragic yet so beautifully done. I never expected you to react to this but I’m soooo glad you did!!
I'm Japanese.This movie was watched by all the students as part of their education when I was a junior high school student. After that, it was shown on TV almost every year on the anniversary of the end of the war in Japan. (Currently, it is no longer broadcast due to extreme content) I think the actual war would have been even more tragic than this movie. Thank you for watching Japanese movies
A film about the Kobe Firebombing, a lesser known tragedy. It's co-written by Akiyuki Nosaka, whose family was impacted by the event. The opening shots are influenced by his sisters, who died in similar circumstances.
The real story is even brutal according to the author, at a point he punched his sister and left a bad concussion when things hit rock bottom. This movie is made to apologise to his 2 dead sisters.
@@hikigaya.13 it is. It's an apology to his little sister cause he blames himself for her death. Unlike the film end, they lived but made the ending this way so they could move on.
I’m Japanese living in Kobe ,the city of the movie.I’m so glad that you guys reacted to this masterpiece. I always cry when I watch this .As Seita and Setsuko did, my grandfather ran 3 cities away to escape from the firebombing.Watching this movie again,I realize how lucky my grandpa was.Because his mother was alive and he was able to live in his cousin’s house. Thank you again for reacting to this movie. Does my English make sense?I hope it does.Sorry for my bad English.
I apologize but I have always had doubts about historical losses during wartime events like this. If you allow me to ask, does your city have a record of what everything was like before it reborn?
as an indonesian, i gave your apologize what have you done for our country, but We are friends from both countries thanks to the cooperation and relations between Indonesia and Japan. I hope your grandparents are always healthy there. May god bless you bro
@@K-J-A What is it about what they said that sounds unbelievable to you? Theres plenty evidence of the historical loses of Japan go look it up yourself its not this persons job to do that
definitely not the movie you would watch twice. when I first saw it, I was emotionally shocked for almost a month. and it is also undeniably a beautiful and moving story.
It's a sad story. These type need to be told to remind us to be human beings, not monsters to others. My Dad & aunt were almost orphaned in WW2. I am a war veteran myself. This movie really gets me emotional. Have a good New Year.
I don't think there something more powerful than a big brother protecting his young siblings. I have a little brother and since the day he was born, i felt that it was my duty yo protect him at all costs. When he almost fell from the stairs, i threw myself to shield him, when a pack of dogs attacked him, i stopped them, when my parents fought, i covered his ears and made him watch cartoons. In the world, brothers have each other and the oldest one protects his youngers from the cruel world he already lived in.
I cried the rest of the movie after the line "and she never woke up" This movie is so incredibly sad and makes me realize i have so much to be greatful for, my family, friends, all the food and all. Its sad that this is still a reality for many children ;-;
I watched this when I was eight years of age and I cried the entire night, I barely understood but knew and felt the truth that people could have helped, the boy was stubborn too and thus his sister could have survived, the auntie could have cared more…. It was avoidable yet not because of the stress and anxiety of war and turmoil but due to greed
i got goosebumps years ago after finding out that the movie's featured picture was not showing fireflies in it. Instead it was actually bombs being dropped from the sky. It was mind blowing
In Grave of the Fireflies, Seita decides for himself and Setsuko to leave their aunt after a series of events-including her selling their mother's kimono dresses and then denying them the rice that she got for it-and this has been one of the more discussable parts of the movie. However, by the end of the movie, Seita resorts to thieving and ultimately Setsuko saddeningly dies of malnutrition, which I've heard leaves lots of viewers wondering why he did not return to their aunt, considering how bad the situation had become by then. The argument is even though their aunt was turning into a greedy, selfish woman, she wouldn't have let either of them starve, and they should have returned to her, as the farmer suggested. Why didn't Seita go back to his aunt, apologize, and ask for help, as the situation aggravated? Two reasons: He is a child. They don't think clearly sometimes and as they both starved more and more, it was unlikely that his thinking will become clearer. There was always savings. Seita had those to fall back to. But he was too late once he decided to use them. It was sort of escalation of commitment problem also known as sunk cost fallacy. We will use savings once things turn bad. When things turned bad... We will use savings once they turn worse." and so on and so on. Until the moment savings couldn't save them. Thus tragedy. Seita's fatal flaw is pride. There is values dissonance here. He is proud, courageous and stoic. If you would put him into Hogwarts house, it would be Gryffindor. Prevailing against all odds thanks to your abilities and courage... that's what the proper fighting spirit is! That's what makes a hero, right? But pride is his flaw and cause of the tragedy. By asking the question: "Why didn't Seita go back to his aunt, apologize, and ask for help, as the situation aggravated?" you have accidentally stumbled at the moral of the story. Western audiences are more likely to see the aunt as abusive guardian and to understand why the kids ran away. Japanese audiences are more likely to see Seita in the wrong for not apologizing to his aunt, which is in line with their values of familial piety and respect.
One of the saddest aime movies I’ve ever seen,and it’s a true story. How horrible war is, on both sides, so many innocent people die.😢 But it was very artistic well done❤️
Anyone who needs a reminder of why war is bad, just watch this movie. It happens every single time. The saddest movie I ever saw. I saw it at theaters and waited a few minutes into credits to dry my eyes and leave. I stood up and turned around: everyone still sat, silently weeping. So surreal.
I'm not much of an anime fan, but I watched this movie back when it came out, and it absolutely destroyed me. Beautiful, but crushing. I saw this video title and actually gasped "oh no" out loud, then immediately clicked it to watch it lol.
The time setting of this movie is only eight years different from that of Totoro. Satsuki and Setsuko are the same age. Unbelievable, right? Me neither. It is very sad that there has been such a difference in their lives.
This movie breaks me every time I watch it , my cousin balled her eyes out on my shoulder, one of the saddest and most heartbreaking films ever , I mean it is based on what happened in Japan as well
Hi I’m Japanese mid 30, I’m so proud that ppl overseas watch this kinda movie from different angle and share how you feel, I just remember how shocked I got when I watched this movie when I was a kid (I was about his age like 10) I can never imagine how tough it was who survived after those bomb attack and those kids who lost everything after, tried to live the best they could, starving, striving, there were so many kids in that situations I heard, so hope this movie will touch to those ppl who never experienced war and how brutal it is.
as an indonesian, i like this movie and this is horrible that ever seen for me. and yeah, we received your apologize for your country what have you been done for us. edit: you know what, We give the statue of General Sudirman at the Japanese Ministry of Defense office for you as a tribute.
This movie rips your heart out and stomps on it. I was depressed for like 3 day after watching it. Don't know if I will watch it again but it's hauntingly beautiful. One of my favourites of all time. Top 3 Studio Ghibli. Too bad you watched English dub though, the original is the best.
@@Aeneiden Yeeeah, that’s not a good idea. I ended up watching The Tale of Princess Kaguya just after my birthday on New Year’s a few years back for the first time and it absolutely wrecked me.
It is a sad movie. Now that I am a father, is hurts even more. We forget that Seita had 14 and Setsuko 4 years old. They were just little kids, with no one to guide them.
Here is another heartbreaking fact; Grave of the Fireflies is based on a semi-biographical story, that is, there are parts of this movie that happened in real life...😭
Good catch that the aunt withheld solid food and only served broth. My mom noticed that and I always point it out to friends. This was a lovely reaction. Thanks for the cry, Suzy!
A Japanese critic said the movie's theme is not war. And the theme of this movie is Seita's redemption. Seita knew that Setsuko would starve to death, but Seita survived by eating only himself. Seita's spirit is going back and forth between the past and the future forever with the atonement for killing his sister.
The scene at the end where they were sitting on the bench as spirits they were looking down at the city of Kobe many years in the future after the city was rebuilt the lights twinkling like Fireflies in the night.
i watched this when i was 8 years old and i remember i can't stop crying and then want to buy that candy and when i finally found the similar one my heart broke every time i ate it hahaha
Lmao my old highschool boyfriend showed me this movie w no context and just sat there as I bawled my eyes out 🤣 first time I’ve rewatched this movie since then
Grave of the Fireflies was my first Anime movie to watched about the WWII Bombing in Japan and second is Barefoot Gen. Barefoot Gen was more graphic & realistic though on how the people burned & died when the bomb was dropped in the city, especially on the aftermath & effects of the war. It was also based off of the real life story of Keiji Nakazawa’s childhood during the war, same goes for Grave of the Fireflies for being a real life story of Akiyuki Nosaka & how he lost his little sister to malnutrition. Either way, both are good & the only difference is Barefoot Gen was released in Year 1983, and GOTF after 5 years, in Year 1988. ( If you’re interested, Barefoot Gen & Part 2 is available in RUclips ) Oh and I just remembered. Another great Anime movie about the Historical Bombing during the WWII is “In this Corner of the World”, which was released in year 2016. The Graphics & music is also very nice, great story too. Don’t worry, you’ll not cry on this one. It’s also nice to see for a change that the main character leading this one is a young woman and how she successfully survived during the World War & how she still managed & lived after that, she was a brave woman too. I highly recommend it✨
Thank you both for doing this movie such good justice in your reaction. Truly a heartbreaking memorial to a horrible period in history. Thank you also for respecting and understanding Seita and the things he did to help them survive as best he could. I love both of you and am both sorry and grateful you decided to react to this movie.
I've been saving this video for when I've watched the movie, but I don't think I'll ever be able to gather the courage to watch it, knowing that it's going to be super depressing, and so here I am watching it the first time with you guys lol, halfway through the video and I'm already reflecting on my life and how I've been living it through, reminding myself so much to be grateful for living in a relatively way more peaceful period. The 'happy' scenes definitely breaks my heart even more, especially knowing that they are heading towards a horrible future...
I watch this movie which is as old as myself in summer every year and never done it without tears. I grew up and live in the city of Kobe and many of the sites appear in this movie are familiar places. Suddenly I remember of the tragedy when coming around Sannomiya station where Seita finally died of starvation and this flashback almost breaks me down. I watch this movie over and over again to look for something that chills me but I have never succeeded.
While Your Name was one of the best movies ever, Grave of the Fireflies was one of the saddest. It definitely conveyed the struggles & distrusts during wartime. Nothing good comes from war! 😥
This work is based on the actual experience of a Japanese writer during the war. It's not perfect fiction. A work that realistically depicts the tragedy suffered by the weak due to the war. I pray that the ongoing wars around the world will disappear as soon as possible and that everyone will be able to regain their normal lives.
I loved this reaction, tbh I just started watching because I wanted to see how your faces would deform when the whole... well, the movie happened. As for the rations and the Aunt, yes, we all hate her, but the thing is rations were not given out per family but per household during WWII, so the rather scarce rations she was using to feed her family now had to be stretched to feed her nephew and niece as well, so, from her POV, the boy's refusal to pawn his mother's belongings was selfish when they were literally feeding them. Even the farmer they meet in the middle has his own crops taken for rations and he only gets enough for his own house, which is not all that much. Since Seita and Setsuko don't have a house of their own, they can't get rations without their aunt and that's an important thing, they SHOULD have stayed with the aunt even if she was cruel but yeah, they were young and didn't know what was actually happening until it was too late and that's part of the tragedy
I’m Japanese. Thank you for watching this movie. Don't look for good or evil in war. Such things change with the times and circumstances. I believe that war is the sin of all of us, and that we are all victims and perpetrators at the same. Humanity has accumulated a sad history for too long. Let's end it in our generation. We should be able to learn, forgive and care. We may be small, but we can change the world. From Tokyo, with love
Ghibli is a genius in storytelling, even the tragic ones. This movie made me better after watching it. There’s just humility that you feel, among many other emotions. Not everyone’s story is fun to hear, but it’s just as important. RIP to the Hiroshima victims, and all victims of war
You can be the toughest sob out there, but when you see children struggling like that it just tugs at your heartstrings. Also a movie with similar subject matter is In This Corner of the World.
I am a person who practically grew up watching movies since I can remember, and they were movies of all kinds, for adults or children because my father did not have the typical filter of "my kid is too young to see those things" and I have always felt that thanks to that I have the ability to disconnect from movies that are too heartbroken or in the best of cases control my emotions, at least when I see them for the second time. I can't do that with this movie, I saw it once and it was enough. I have seen movies several times that people have not wanted to see again after the second, I can. Not here, I can't even though I love anime, but it's too much for my heart.
Oh no. This movie made me Depressed as hell. And knowing the fact, its based on a true story. I love the ending of this when Seita looks at us breaking the 4th wall, its like he’s talking to us: “look what happened to us.” This is so depressing oh God 😢😢😢 *They’re just a kid.*
This movie has never said "Japanese are victims", and not to mention, "US is perpetrators". This says the dying of dearest by war hurt and collapse our spirits. My granduncle had gone in a WW2, and his mother was crying and praying for his soul everyday towards the altar. And soon, she has gone dementia. Maybe she couldn't relieve her sorrow. We have to remember Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But it is not why we hate mutually, but we never repeat tragedy.
I just watched this movie over the weekend. I'm usually the type of person to cry during sad movies but this this one I didnt even shed a tear which is surprising becuase this movie was so fucking tragic but after watching it and whole wave of depression just washed me and up to now I'm still depressed. This movie was the first one to ever trigger my depression. Worse part is that it's based on a true story.
This is actually the first anime I ever watched, when I was 3 lol. It came with Totoro and Castle in the Sky as well as Kiki's delivery Service and Porco Rosso. I still remember the mother's burned out husk of a body and the apathy and outright cruelty of some adults in the film. It's ingrained in my mind for sure, even have the picture book format. I scribbled out the American planes with pen lol.
to be honest this movies main message was about pride. it was pride that drove japan to war with the us, pride that drove the aunt to push him away and pride that prevented him from appologizing to the aunt and atleast securing a space for his sister. pride killed everyone in this movie. yall should watch in this corner of the world
War was not unavoidable. If Japan did not go to war, its future would have been a colony of the Soviet Union or some other country. That may also be pride.
@@ピップ-p6r Japan's war was one of expansionism at first. Japan had just one a war against Russia not that long ago and it believed it was superior to all other nations. Literally invaded China and dared the league of nations to do something about it. The were so prideful of themselves they even ignored the strength of the giant they were picking a fight with even after many advisors warned them of this. The domino effect of life.
@@pugums3433 I understand that most people in your country have that kind of education. If you explain it, it will be long and tiring, so please check "Judge Pearl" and "Hull Note". Evidence that the United States wanted to war with Japan.
I couldn't finish it when I first watched it, way too much crying! Had to sit down and watch it a second time to finish it all the way and I still cried all the way through
It is important to remember that “Grave of the Fireflies” is an animated film version of the novel of the same name. Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies) is a short story by Japanese novelist ”Akiyuki Nosaka”, based on Nosaka's own true war experience. The original novel was published in the October issue of “All Yomimono” magazine in 1967, and was awarded Japan's 58th ”Naoki Prize” the following spring. Although the novel “Grave of the Fireflies” is not a complete documentary, the subject of bereavement of a younger sister during wartime was created with autobiographical elements that strongly reflect the author Akiyuki Nosaka's actual experiences as a boy and his feelings at that time. He lost his house and his family to severe burns in the indiscriminate air raid on Kobe by the U.S. Air Force on June 5, 1945. The novel is based on Nosaka's memories of his boyhood, including digging food out of the burnt ruins and carrying it by himself to the evacuation site of Nishinomiya City, and his memories of nature and the beautiful fireflies he experienced there. This animation is better viewed as an adaptation of an original work than as a creative work by Ghibli. The evaluation should also include the novel on which it is based. It is common in all wars that those who suffer the most in any war are not those who made the decision to wage war, but the civilians involved and the children who lost their parents. The subject of this story is based on the author's actual experience, which is perhaps what the author wants to convey. He wanted to depict what war looks like from the eyes of ordinary people and children and the damage it causes, and that the greatest victims are vulnerable people like children. This is a depiction of the reality of war from the perspective of a victimized child. Animated works are easy to see beyond the language barrier because of their visuals. However, the amount of written stories created in Japan is vastly greater than the number and history of animated works. （Japan is home to many novelists and works of fiction, and it was Japan that produced “The Tale of Genji,” said to be the world's first full-length love story some 1,200 years ago.） It should not be forgotten that it is this historical backbone that has given birth to many animated works as derivatives and additions, as a variant of narrative creation.
The intense fires created around Hiroshima by the bomb carried large quantities of ash into the atmosphere. The ash had the effect of 'seeding' the clouds and the result was a 'black rain' which fell 1-2 hours after the explosion.
The sad reality that is the truth today for children suffering around the world and in Gaza. They are starving and dying from the violence. Pray for peace
There are countless war films, but very few which focus on parts that aren't directly related to the battle. "The Best Years of our Lives" (1946) does a great job at depicting the challenges of returning soldiers. Also, Ingmar Bergman's "Shame" and this excellent film show the cost of War on civilians.
Yeah, I feel like it's often overlooked that it's the civilians who pay. And the fact that in western media anything to do with WWII has clearly cast "good guys" and "bad guys," seeing a film that shows Japanese civilians and how regardless of the role the nation played, the average person had absolutely nothing to do with it. War is hell.
I’m from the town where Seita and Setsuko were born (where the author was born and raised) and we still have the beach, the river and the station he died. I’m glad you guys watched this but a wrong choice for Christmas 😂
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"A beautiful movie that I would never watch again" is probably the best way to summarize this movie. Traumatising but really really good!
I swear I am not a very emotional person but I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and am still traumatized to experience this movie again 😂 I am still not watching the reaction
I watched it this year for the first time... and even though I didn't cry... I felt like I had been torn apart from the inside out. It was a unique experience that unfortunately I can't recommend.
Yeah thats right! I cried my eyes out! Fortunately, i watched it the first(and maybe the last time)as an adult.
Same it is a one time thing movie
You should watch barefoot gen
"Grave of the Fireflies is a great movie, isn't it?"
"Yes"
"So let's watch it again !!"
"No"
Never ever.
It's that kind of Masterpiece you'll never want to watch again.
Agree, i don't have ball of steel to rewatch it again 😂༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
me too
no way never ever!!
For those of you who shed tears while watching this work.
Don't forget that we are friends who can share the same feelings even though we are from different countries and languages.
I hope that there will be no more wars in this world.
Sadly, It is happening in Ukraine..............
Well said...and agreed.
Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ethiopia and Tigray, Russia and Ukraine, Sudan, the Middle East.. 😞
@@SAMR33 Blame greedy leaders and politicians.
@@noneofyourbusiness1998offcourse
War doesn't have winners. Everyone loses. And I am glad Isao Takahata brought us this movie to deliver us this message.
The auntie in grave of fireflies represents all the attitudes of relatives when children are orphaned throughout Asia. My mom was an orphan during the Vietnam war after she lost both her parents. Her paternal uncle took her in but the aunt and uncle treated her differently from their kids. She was given more chores and not as much gifts or clothing because she was considered "an orphan and a waste of money". I think grave of fireflies show this very well about orphan children being mistreated by relatives.
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I feel sorry for your mother.
Aunts and uncles like that must have hated their sibling, to treat their kid like that. I dont understand such attitude. They are the surviving legacy of your dead sibling. Why treat them like that?
no, this movie is trying to show wars can turn good people into evils, cuz they are also panicked about their own lives and they are mentally overwhelmed. In that situation, taking in other kids can become a huge burden. In the video, the lady keeps saying it’s the untie’s fault but it’s not. It is the war. Japan vs USA. The US did not hesitate to kill innocent civilians in the most cruel way.
All thanks to America😢
@@SaifKhan-ei4syYea because communism is SO great /s.
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In real life, the author admitted he actually did not do so as often as the book and movie portrays. He said he often found himself eating what he found and it was one of his greatest regrets. The book was an apology to his sister, and Seita (an insert for himself) dying was how he felt should've happened to himself. He was about 13-15 and it's just really sad since they were both kids
the theme of people being more focused on self preservation than helping others makes even more sense now. Dude was literally projecting this on all the characters that didn't help them out. Fuck me
It is one of the most saddest and most wonderful things about the movie. It is so sad that Takahata has now passed away a few years ago now, but I’m glad he was able to give this to the world while he could.
I find that makes it even more tragic because the idea of this character being this "best" version of himself that does the things he wishes he had and it *still doesn't help* is fucking brutal.
This is a movie that never fails to make me cry.
When Setsuko started hallucinating I just broke down.
Yeah, and watching others cry makes it harder for me
Not only you, everyone.
So you managed to watch it more than once?! Wow, you got balls
泣いてくれてありがとう
優しい人たち
戦争は良くない
アメリカからやられる前に気づいてたらよかったのにね
I am Japanese.
We don't have a grudge against Americans.
I have a grudge against the war.
Here here. This film still makes you have a whole mix of hate, sadness and forgiveness all at once though.
I feel the same towards the Japanese. I really love Japan. I hope we will move past it and work towards peace so that this never happens again.
@@LucidDream
Thank you✨
I also love and respect America and Americans. m(_ _)m
@ほし 今に導いてくれた先人たちに感謝だね
自分の気持ちを勝手に一般化するのは良くないと思うよ
願這世界上，以後不再有戰爭，世界和平。
以下も入れてやって．
なんでよりによってクリスマスにこれを見たんだ…
いやほんとそれなw
@@あいうえお-z4v5o笑い事じゃねぇ！ってかクリスマスとかどうでもええわ！
🎉
クリスマスには、ポケ戦を見なくては‼️
ジブリにここまで憂鬱になる映画があるとは思ってなかった感じですね。
At the beginning of the movie, B-29 of the American army dropped a incendiary bomb called "M69" on the city of Kobe.
The M69 was designed to efficiently burn down Japanese cities, which have many wooden buildings, by burning napalm using TNT explosives as a detonator.
The M69 is a small cluster bomb with 38 bombs stored in a parent bomb called the E46, and after dropping, the M 69 stored at an altitude of 700 m is spread and burnt out over a wide area.
When the M69 fell, it seemed like it was rain of flames because the explosives used to separate the M69 from the E46 ignited a long blue cloth called a streamer attached to the tail of the M 69, making it look like it was falling.
When the M69 penetrated the roof of a house and collided with the floor or the ground, it was ignited by a time fuse 3 to 5 seconds later. The maximum height of the fire pillar was 100 ft, and the surrounding buildings were immediately burnt away.
Since the napalm burning agent of M69 was a gelatinous and sticky liquid with a high clay content, it could not be removed by flushing with water if it adhered to the human body, and many people could not escape from the napalm burning agent, which they could never remove while alive, and they were burned to death.
Normally, a B -29 carries 40 E46 cluster bombs and an E46 contains 38 M69 bombs, so 1520 M69 bombs per B -29 were dropped on Japanese cities.
In the Kobe air raid described in the movie on June 5, 1945, 474 B-29 bombers dropped a total of 720000 ~ 1140000 bombs, which weighed about 3079 tons of M69, and about 21% of Kobe City was lost and 530,000 people lost their homes and families, and about 10,000 people died.
Tokyo suffered the most from the M69, with 1 million people losing their homes and 100,000 dying overnight in an air raid on March 10, 1945.
In Japan as a whole, 560,000 people have died and 15 million have lost their homes.
However, due to the nature of the incendiary bombs, the victims were burned to the point of being burned to the extent that they became charcoal alive, so it is not possible to identify them, but the bodies of the victims were destroyed by the wind and rain, and there are many people whose bodies have not been identified and are still missing, so the exact number of victims has not been determined yet.
Even if they escaped into air-raid shelters to prevent the blast, many people were suffocated to death by being deprived of oxygen in the fire of incendiary bombs or died of being steamed by high temperatures.
After the air raids, the dust and dust of houses burned to the ground and turned into charcoal were blown up into the sky by the warm updraft generated by a large-scale fire, so the moisture in the sky was often stuck to the dust and black rain fell.
The Japanese army developed new fighter aircraft and new antiaircraft artillery, and succeeded in shooting down about 400 B-29, but because B-29 and P-51 fighters of escort were high performance (The B-29 was an incredibly powerful World War II bomber, carrying a 20,000 lbs bomb and flying at 400mph at 30,000ft.)and were used in too many air raids(During World War II, a total of about 2500 B-29 s were used in air raids against Japan, escorted by 10,000 P-51s.), the air raids on Japan which started in June 1944 did not stop until August 15, 1945, when World War II was gathering.
The air raids on the Japanese mainland, along with the Dresden air raid on Germany by the allied forces, were the most efficient military operations in human history that succeeded in burning down a large number of civilians in a short period of time.
Seita's father was on board the heavy cruiser Maya. Maya sank in the Battle of Leyte Gulf on October 23, 1944 after being hit by four torpedoes during a battle with the U.S. Navy fleet.
336 people sank with Maya, and 769 escaped and were rescued by the battleship Musashi of the same type from the biggest battleship in World War II, Yamato.
However, the next day, on the 24th, the Battleship Musashi was also sunk by the US Naval Air Corps, which was attacked by a total of 208 aircraft for 10 hours, and was hit with 17 bombs and 20 torpedoes.
The American army was shocked that Musashi would not sink even if he had been hit by so many bombs and torpedoes, and later when the same type of ship, Yamato, was sunk, they carried out a strategy of attacking only one side and overthrowing it.
Maya's crew members, who were on board, joined the battle in cooperation with Musashi's crew, and 117 more died in the battle, and eventually 450 Maya's crew members died in the battle.
mean, at the beginning of the story, Seita's father was dead ...
And this movie is a work that adds a little fiction to the real experience of the author of the original novel, and the author actually lost his sister to starvation by war.
The author survived but killed himself in the story out of guilt for not protecting his sister.
In the final scene, the souls of Seita and Setsuko are looking at the present city, with the message that such tragedies are not fiction, but a reality that is still happening somewhere in the world.
I pray that such a tragedy will never happen again.
Entirely the fault of the imperial Japanese government for continuing the war
非武装の民間人を大量殺戮したアメリカを恨まない日本人は馬鹿なのだろうか？
俺自身は、アメリカ人に謝罪要求したいとは思わないが、当時結果的に民間人を大量殺戮した事に関してアメリカ人が肯定するのには腹が立ちます。
@@AK-tx9cc if you want to talk about unarmed civilians, how about the things your country did to my home country, the Philippines? The Rape of Manila! The Bataan Death March! Comfort Women! Then there’s Unit 731, where Imperial Japan experimented on people. You’re in no way innocent in killing unarmed civilians. The US wasn’t even officially in WW2 until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Do NOT bring up the past, if you cannot face your own past.
@@AK-tx9cc 日本の歴史教育も十分だとは思わないのでどっちもどっちかなぁ、と。私はアメリカ人には何の恨みも無いけど原爆投下について軽々しく語る輩は軽蔑しますけどね。
@@mari5london 戦争自体に関しては、戦勝国のアメリカが日本を悪く言うのは仕方がないだろう。
しかし
戦争の「やり方」に関しては、アメリカも反省すべき点はあるだろう。
原爆投下や市街地を無差別爆撃なんて当時の国際法でも違法行為なんだから。
I promised myself that I'm not gonna watch this movie ever again, but here I am crying while watching your reaction. One of the saddest movie I've ever seen.
Sad fact. The movie was an apology to his sister. The author actually made the kid in the movie a better human being, by giving his sister some food. In reality, he did not give his sister food, he ate it first.
Source? It's a movie ffs, lmao, don't make up stuff from your ass
Bro this info is the last thing I needed after bawling my tears out😢😂😂
That is some Warhammer 40 K shit and I love it.
What’s worse is this still happens today. It’s just in other places. This movie is one of the hardest things I’ve ever watched but it’s a movie that needs to be seen.
These children are innocent but the more wars we fight the more they will end up like these two.
I agree absolutely. But in their specific case it wasn't just the war. Their insanely selfish and borderline evil aunt also played a big role in it.
I will never understand how some people can treat children like that and less orphans, which you are related to.....But sadly people like this really exist.
This movie is just it’s so beautiful. It’s the only movie I have only watched one time. It’s so sad so tragic yet so beautifully done. I never expected you to react to this but I’m soooo glad you did!!
What would you call it then?
最後に子供達の魂が現代の街並みを眺めてるシーンが今も印象的です。
Absolutely
I'm Japanese.This movie was watched by all the students as part of their education when I was a junior high school student.
After that, it was shown on TV almost every year on the anniversary of the end of the war in Japan.
(Currently, it is no longer broadcast due to extreme content)
I think the actual war would have been even more tragic than this movie.
Thank you for watching Japanese movies
Also it just shows that war effects everyone, the innocent too no matter what side
A film about the Kobe Firebombing, a lesser known tragedy. It's co-written by Akiyuki Nosaka, whose family was impacted by the event. The opening shots are influenced by his sisters, who died in similar circumstances.
The real story is even brutal according to the author, at a point he punched his sister and left a bad concussion when things hit rock bottom. This movie is made to apologise to his 2 dead sisters.
Is it true?
@@hikigaya.13 it is. It's an apology to his little sister cause he blames himself for her death. Unlike the film end, they lived but made the ending this way so they could move on.
原作者は妹が亡くなった時に安堵したと語ってます。食料に困っていた。謝罪の気持ちで小説を書いたのは事実です。
Wow why did he do that? Also that sounds like a more interesting movie.
@@bananian Starvation, exhaustion and desperation bring out the worst in people. Until you have been there, you cannot really understand.
I’m Japanese living in Kobe ,the city of the movie.I’m so glad that you guys reacted to this masterpiece. I always cry when I watch this .As Seita and Setsuko did, my grandfather ran 3 cities away to escape from the firebombing.Watching this movie again,I realize how lucky my grandpa was.Because his mother was alive and he was able to live in his cousin’s house.
Thank you again for reacting to this movie.
Does my English make sense?I hope it does.Sorry for my bad English.
Your English is fantastic. ^o^ Your grandfather is a lucky person!
I apologize but I have always had doubts about historical losses during wartime events like this. If you allow me to ask, does your city have a record of what everything was like before it reborn?
as an indonesian, i gave your apologize what have you done for our country, but We are friends from both countries thanks to the cooperation and relations between Indonesia and Japan. I hope your grandparents are always healthy there. May god bless you bro
@@K-J-A What is it about what they said that sounds unbelievable to you? Theres plenty evidence of the historical loses of Japan go look it up yourself its not this persons job to do that
Pretending to be a victim
definitely not the movie you would watch twice.
when I first saw it, I was emotionally shocked for almost a month.
and it is also undeniably a beautiful and moving story.
It's a sad story. These type need to be told to remind us to be human beings, not monsters to others. My Dad & aunt were almost orphaned in WW2. I am a war veteran myself. This movie really gets me emotional. Have a good New Year.
This movie is wayyyy to sad to ever watch again. I watched it as part of a class back in the day. Definitely cried. It’s beautiful. Never again.
I don't think there something more powerful than a big brother protecting his young siblings. I have a little brother and since the day he was born, i felt that it was my duty yo protect him at all costs. When he almost fell from the stairs, i threw myself to shield him, when a pack of dogs attacked him, i stopped them, when my parents fought, i covered his ears and made him watch cartoons. In the world, brothers have each other and the oldest one protects his youngers from the cruel world he already lived in.
Big brothers are like fathers
この映画は、2度は見れません。
あまりにも悲しすぎて…
でも、救いが無くて、誰を憎めばいいのか分からなくて、誰も幸せにはならないこの終わりこそが、戦争の答えだとも強く思います。
そして今も、こんな思いをしている子供達が世界の何処かにいるのだと思うとやり切れません。
I agree
同じです。高校生の時、田舎のレンタル屋で借りて以来、地上波放送すら観てません。かろうじて、岡田としお氏の解説動画だけは観たのですが、余計観たくなくなりました。きつさ倍増です。
あのラストが、清太と節子が私たちの戦後の現代社会を見てどう思うのかという、見ている人にとって内省を促してるのがとても良い。
大人になって見たから、選挙とか毎回ちゃんと行ってこなかった自分を責めたけど、最近では投票だけじゃダメだって思い始めたよ。
目を背けたい事実や感じたくない苦しい感情をしっかり受け止めて、感じ切らなくちゃって思ってる。
日常的にやっている無駄な買い物やダラダラとネットするのって、嫌な感情から目を背けるための行動で、そういう現実逃避な浪費的な行動が世界中で積み重なって戦争とかになっちゃうんじゃないかって
I cried the rest of the movie after the line "and she never woke up"
This movie is so incredibly sad and makes me realize i have so much to be greatful for, my family, friends, all the food and all.
Its sad that this is still a reality for many children ;-;
I watched this when I was eight years of age and I cried the entire night, I barely understood but knew and felt the truth that people could have helped, the boy was stubborn too and thus his sister could have survived, the auntie could have cared more…. It was avoidable yet not because of the stress and anxiety of war and turmoil but due to greed
In Japan, this movie used to be broadcasted every summer so that all of us remember how cruel the war is.
It's a movie that everyone in the world should see once, but it's also a movie they don't want to see again.
i got goosebumps years ago after finding out that the movie's featured picture was not showing fireflies in it. Instead it was actually bombs being dropped from the sky. It was mind blowing
In Grave of the Fireflies, Seita decides for himself and Setsuko to leave their aunt after a series of events-including her selling their mother's kimono dresses and then denying them the rice that she got for it-and this has been one of the more discussable parts of the movie.
However, by the end of the movie, Seita resorts to thieving and ultimately Setsuko saddeningly dies of malnutrition, which I've heard leaves lots of viewers wondering why he did not return to their aunt, considering how bad the situation had become by then.
The argument is even though their aunt was turning into a greedy, selfish woman, she wouldn't have let either of them starve, and they should have returned to her, as the farmer suggested.
Why didn't Seita go back to his aunt, apologize, and ask for help, as the situation aggravated?
Two reasons:
He is a child. They don't think clearly sometimes and as they both starved more and more, it was unlikely that his thinking will become clearer. There was always savings. Seita had those to fall back to. But he was too late once he decided to use them. It was sort of escalation of commitment problem also known as sunk cost fallacy.
We will use savings once things turn bad.
When things turned bad...
We will use savings once they turn worse."
and so on and so on.
Until the moment savings couldn't save them. Thus tragedy.
Seita's fatal flaw is pride. There is values dissonance here. He is proud, courageous and stoic. If you would put him into Hogwarts house, it would be Gryffindor. Prevailing against all odds thanks to your abilities and courage... that's what the proper fighting spirit is! That's what makes a hero, right? But pride is his flaw and cause of the tragedy.
By asking the question: "Why didn't Seita go back to his aunt, apologize, and ask for help, as the situation aggravated?" you have accidentally stumbled at the moral of the story. Western audiences are more likely to see the aunt as abusive guardian and to understand why the kids ran away. Japanese audiences are more likely to see Seita in the wrong for not apologizing to his aunt, which is in line with their values of familial piety and respect.
As a man who was soldier, who was in war, this movie is destroying me from inside, its braking me to dust.
One of the saddest aime movies I’ve ever seen,and it’s a true story.
How horrible war is, on both sides, so many innocent people die.😢
But it was very artistic well done❤️
Anyone who needs a reminder of why war is bad, just watch this movie. It happens every single time.
The saddest movie I ever saw. I saw it at theaters and waited a few minutes into credits to dry my eyes and leave. I stood up and turned around: everyone still sat, silently weeping. So surreal.
I'm not much of an anime fan, but I watched this movie back when it came out, and it absolutely destroyed me. Beautiful, but crushing.
I saw this video title and actually gasped "oh no" out loud, then immediately clicked it to watch it lol.
The time setting of this movie is only eight years different from that of Totoro. Satsuki and Setsuko are the same age.
Unbelievable, right? Me neither.
It is very sad that there has been such a difference in their lives.
And both movies came out at exactly the same day in Japan.
with this playing first and Totoro playing right afterwards
I think you mean mei and satsuko are the same age. Satsuki is 10. Setsuko is 4.
I wish someone could have warn you, this wasn’t a merry Christmas movie.
But your empathy shows about you both💗
This movie breaks me every time I watch it , my cousin balled her eyes out on my shoulder, one of the saddest and most heartbreaking films ever , I mean it is based on what happened in Japan as well
Hi I’m Japanese mid 30, I’m so proud that ppl overseas watch this kinda movie from different angle and share how you feel, I just remember how shocked I got when I watched this movie when I was a kid (I was about his age like 10) I can never imagine how tough it was who survived after those bomb attack and those kids who lost everything after, tried to live the best they could, starving, striving, there were so many kids in that situations I heard, so hope this movie will touch to those ppl who never experienced war and how brutal it is.
as an indonesian, i like this movie and this is horrible that ever seen for me. and yeah, we received your apologize for your country what have you been done for us.
edit: you know what, We give the statue of General Sudirman at the Japanese Ministry of Defense office for you as a tribute.
This movie rips your heart out and stomps on it. I was depressed for like 3 day after watching it. Don't know if I will watch it again but it's hauntingly beautiful. One of my favourites of all time. Top 3 Studio Ghibli.
Too bad you watched English dub though, the original is the best.
She should have watched the original. In that way she could be more depressed for this Christmas
@@miyanagikosaki7808 True. I made that mistake 2 yrs ago. I watched it the day before new years... big mistake.
@@Aeneiden Yeeeah, that’s not a good idea. I ended up watching The Tale of Princess Kaguya just after my birthday on New Year’s a few years back for the first time and it absolutely wrecked me.
海外の方々に理解してほしい事があります。
この映画が伝えたい事は、戦争は悲惨であるという事です。
アメリカ軍の批判ではありません。
その証拠に、この映画にはアメリカ兵は出て来ません。
この映画は、狂った政府に対する批判と、犠牲になった人々への鎮魂(Requiem)と戦争の現実を知らない世代に向けて作られたものです。
この世に平和を。
火垂るの墓は何回見ても泣く。
What a powerful movie, but it sure makes you treasure Christmas even more! Thanks for watching it even though it's a tough one.
It is a sad movie. Now that I am a father, is hurts even more. We forget that Seita had 14 and Setsuko 4 years old. They were just little kids, with no one to guide them.
Here is another heartbreaking fact; Grave of the Fireflies is based on a semi-biographical story, that is, there are parts of this movie that happened in real life...😭
Good catch that the aunt withheld solid food and only served broth. My mom noticed that and I always point it out to friends.
This was a lovely reaction. Thanks for the cry, Suzy!
A Japanese critic said the movie's theme is not war.
And the theme of this movie is Seita's redemption.
Seita knew that Setsuko would starve to death, but Seita survived by eating only himself.
Seita's spirit is going back and forth between the past and the future forever with the atonement for killing his sister.
The ending was really heartbreaking to watch 💔💔💔😭😭
The scene at the end where they were sitting on the bench as spirits they were looking down at the city of Kobe many years in the future after the city was rebuilt the lights twinkling like Fireflies in the night.
Thank you for watching this movie! From Japan!
But it's not a movie to watch for Christmas😅
火垂るの墓は悲しいよね…
見てくれてありがとうございました
The grave of the fire is sad ... Thank you for watching.
i watched this when i was 8 years old and i remember i can't stop crying and then want to buy that candy and when i finally found the similar one my heart broke every time i ate it hahaha
日本人です
この映画を鑑賞して思うことは
人々の幸せと世界平和を願うことが より強くなったことです
この映画は反戦を目的とはしておらず、セイタの自尊心が強いがために起こった悲劇を描いています
そして原作を書いた野坂昭如は戦時中に妹のことを全く大事にせずに死なせてしまった事に対する贖罪の意味でこの物語を作りました
野坂氏のそれからの長い時間…テレビなどでいつもお酒飲んでる？と思うような言動や行動‥今から考えると胸が痛みます…この映画も音声だけ聴くのが精一杯で、まともに観られなかったとか…セイタが伯母さんの家から離れるという行動を疑問視する、伯母さんが主人公の実写ドラマも製作されましたが、自分は‥あの時代のセイタが、完全なる〈軍国少年〉として教育され、士官クラスの父親が彼のヒーローであり必ず勝利して戻って来てくれる！と一心に信じたプライドを〈世間知らず〉と非難するのは、子供に対して酷なことだと思いました!…野坂昭如先生、高畑勲監督、素晴らしい作品を遺して頂きありがとうございました☆☆
@@隆利-f8h この場合のセイタのプライドは邪魔者扱いされてまで親戚のお世話になりたくないという個人的なプライドの事を指していて、国とか軍とかそういうレベルの話ではないところに意味があると思います セイタが小さなプライド（命に比べれば）を誇示するあまり結果的に妹を殺してしまい自分も命を落としたということです。たまたま戦時中のお話であるけど大事なものは何かという事をといかけている映画です
お兄ちゃんの声優が元の感じとそっくりで凄い。嬉しい
Lmao my old highschool boyfriend showed me this movie w no context and just sat there as I bawled my eyes out 🤣 first time I’ve rewatched this movie since then
Grave of the Fireflies was my first Anime movie to watched about the WWII Bombing in Japan and second is Barefoot Gen. Barefoot Gen was more graphic & realistic though on how the people burned & died when the bomb was dropped in the city, especially on the aftermath & effects of the war. It was also based off of the real life story of Keiji Nakazawa’s childhood during the war, same goes for Grave of the Fireflies for being a real life story of Akiyuki Nosaka & how he lost his little sister to malnutrition. Either way, both are good & the only difference is Barefoot Gen was released in Year 1983, and GOTF after 5 years, in Year 1988. ( If you’re interested, Barefoot Gen & Part 2 is available in RUclips )
Oh and I just remembered. Another great Anime movie about the Historical Bombing during the WWII is “In this Corner of the World”, which was released in year 2016. The Graphics & music is also very nice, great story too. Don’t worry, you’ll not cry on this one. It’s also nice to see for a change that the main character leading this one is a young woman and how she successfully survived during the World War & how she still managed & lived after that, she was a brave woman too. I highly recommend it✨
Thank you both for doing this movie such good justice in your reaction. Truly a heartbreaking memorial to a horrible period in history. Thank you also for respecting and understanding Seita and the things he did to help them survive as best he could. I love both of you and am both sorry and grateful you decided to react to this movie.
I've been saving this video for when I've watched the movie, but I don't think I'll ever be able to gather the courage to watch it, knowing that it's going to be super depressing, and so here I am watching it the first time with you guys lol, halfway through the video and I'm already reflecting on my life and how I've been living it through, reminding myself so much to be grateful for living in a relatively way more peaceful period. The 'happy' scenes definitely breaks my heart even more, especially knowing that they are heading towards a horrible future...
"I'm Heartbroken!"
Soon as I saw the movie title, I understood.
I watch this movie which is as old as myself in summer every year and never done it without tears. I grew up and live in the city of Kobe and many of the sites appear in this movie are familiar places. Suddenly I remember of the tragedy when coming around Sannomiya station where Seita finally died of starvation and this flashback almost breaks me down. I watch this movie over and over again to look for something that chills me but I have never succeeded.
私はこのアニメを小さい頃に見て、トラウマになり二度とみることができなくなりました。
今大人になり、また戦争が近づいている今色々な事を考えさせられます。
すごいね、火垂るの墓をリアクションしてくれるなんてなかなか無いよ。
自分は日本人なのに2回目が悲しすぎて、辛すぎて見ることができない。
この作品は
どの目線で見たか？
いつ（年齢）見たか？で
考え方が変わるんですよね。
おばさんの立場で見るか？
子供の立場で見るか？
それだけでも印象は変わります。
戦争とは
人の心を極限まで追いつめます。
大人・子供関係なく。。。
祖母は戦争を経験していたので
色々な話を聞きました。
私の家の周りにある公園にも
防空壕（避難所）や大砲などが残っていて
誰でも見れたりします。
幼い頃から
祖父母や親や学校などで話を聞かされて
漫画・アニメ・ドラマ・映画で戦争の作品を沢山見ました。
また
８月がやってきます。
広島や長崎では平和の追悼式が行われ
テレビでは様々な番組が流れます。
私は
アメリカ・アメリカ人を憎んではいません。
幼い時に教わったのは
戦争は愚かな事で
絶対にやってはいけないという事でした。
最後に
幽霊となった
清太と節子が現在の街を眺めて終わります。
未だに終わらない戦争を見て
２人はどう思うのか？
戦争で亡くなった方々は
どう思うのか？
それを考えたら答えは1つだと思います。
日本人は
毎年
８月になると考えさせられるんです。
世界中の人々が作品を見て考えていただきたいです。
This is pure tragedy without a doubt. As an older sister, it was too relatable. It's one of my worst fears as a sibling in itself.
While Your Name was one of the best movies ever, Grave of the Fireflies was one of the saddest. It definitely conveyed the struggles & distrusts during wartime. Nothing good comes from war! 😥
I cried for like 30 min straight after watching this movie. Just watching these clips making me feel sad
This work is based on the actual experience of a Japanese writer during the war. It's not perfect fiction.
A work that realistically depicts the tragedy suffered by the weak due to the war.
I pray that the ongoing wars around the world will disappear as soon as possible and that everyone will be able to regain their normal lives.
I loved this reaction, tbh I just started watching because I wanted to see how your faces would deform when the whole... well, the movie happened. As for the rations and the Aunt, yes, we all hate her, but the thing is rations were not given out per family but per household during WWII, so the rather scarce rations she was using to feed her family now had to be stretched to feed her nephew and niece as well, so, from her POV, the boy's refusal to pawn his mother's belongings was selfish when they were literally feeding them. Even the farmer they meet in the middle has his own crops taken for rations and he only gets enough for his own house, which is not all that much. Since Seita and Setsuko don't have a house of their own, they can't get rations without their aunt and that's an important thing, they SHOULD have stayed with the aunt even if she was cruel but yeah, they were young and didn't know what was actually happening until it was too late and that's part of the tragedy
I’m Japanese.
Thank you for watching this movie.
Don't look for good or evil in war. Such things change with the times and circumstances.
I believe that war is the sin of all of us, and that we are all victims and perpetrators at the same.
Humanity has accumulated a sad history for too long. Let's end it in our generation.
We should be able to learn, forgive and care.
We may be small, but we can change the world.
From Tokyo, with love
the best yet saddest movie that broke my 8 years old innocent heart
大人が戦争に夢中になっている間 子供はこうなっているという映画です
Ghibli is a genius in storytelling, even the tragic ones. This movie made me better after watching it. There’s just humility that you feel, among many other emotions. Not everyone’s story is fun to hear, but it’s just as important. RIP to the Hiroshima victims, and all victims of war
You can be the toughest sob out there, but when you see children struggling like that it just tugs at your heartstrings. Also a movie with similar subject matter is In This Corner of the World.
I am a person who practically grew up watching movies since I can remember, and they were movies of all kinds, for adults or children because my father did not have the typical filter of "my kid is too young to see those things" and I have always felt that thanks to that I have the ability to disconnect from movies that are too heartbroken or in the best of cases control my emotions, at least when I see them for the second time.
I can't do that with this movie, I saw it once and it was enough. I have seen movies several times that people have not wanted to see again after the second, I can. Not here, I can't even though I love anime, but it's too much for my heart.
I've lost count how many times I've seen it. 🤣 I've shown it to many people.
After watching this movie As long as you hear the soundtrack, you can cry. and i'm crying
Oh no. This movie made me Depressed as hell.
And knowing the fact, its based on a true story.
I love the ending of this when Seita looks at us breaking the 4th wall, its like he’s talking to us: “look what happened to us.”
This is so depressing oh God 😢😢😢
*They’re just a kid.*
I express the music of this movie with a guitar. This soundtrack is very wonderful! This movie is very famous in Japan! Good job!
This movie has never said "Japanese are victims", and not to mention, "US is perpetrators".
This says the dying of dearest by war hurt and collapse our spirits.
My granduncle had gone in a WW2, and his mother was crying and praying for his soul everyday towards the altar.
And soon, she has gone dementia. Maybe she couldn't relieve her sorrow.
We have to remember Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But it is not why we hate mutually, but we never repeat tragedy.
I just watched this movie over the weekend. I'm usually the type of person to cry during sad movies but this this one I didnt even shed a tear which is surprising becuase this movie was so fucking tragic but after watching it and whole wave of depression just washed me and up to now I'm still depressed. This movie was the first one to ever trigger my depression. Worse part is that it's based on a true story.
This is actually the first anime I ever watched, when I was 3 lol. It came with Totoro and Castle in the Sky as well as Kiki's delivery Service and Porco Rosso. I still remember the mother's burned out husk of a body and the apathy and outright cruelty of some adults in the film. It's ingrained in my mind for sure, even have the picture book format. I scribbled out the American planes with pen lol.
This is one of those films, if you watch it right away again, after it's finished, you will feel it harder.
to be honest this movies main message was about pride. it was pride that drove japan to war with the us, pride that drove the aunt to push him away and pride that prevented him from appologizing to the aunt and atleast securing a space for his sister. pride killed everyone in this movie.
yall should watch in this corner of the world
War was not unavoidable.
If Japan did not go to war, its future would have been a colony of the Soviet Union or some other country. That may also be pride.
@@ピップ-p6r Japan's war was one of expansionism at first. Japan had just one a war against Russia not that long ago and it believed it was superior to all other nations. Literally invaded China and dared the league of nations to do something about it. The were so prideful of themselves they even ignored the strength of the giant they were picking a fight with even after many advisors warned them of this. The domino effect of life.
Won not one
@@pugums3433 I understand that most people in your country have that kind of education.
If you explain it, it will be long and tiring, so please check "Judge Pearl" and "Hull Note". Evidence that the United States wanted to war with Japan.
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I can't understand your senses. Do you have a feeling of hatred for the Japanese?
I watched this movie when I was in my early 20s it absolutely broke me the saddest movie I have ever watched
Whomever told you to watch this movie during Christmas week is a monster. Tell him/her..thank you...
It’s a sad film, it makes it even harder to watch after you realise you’re basically watching a story of a pair of siblings slowly starve to death
I couldn't finish it when I first watched it, way too much crying! Had to sit down and watch it a second time to finish it all the way and I still cried all the way through
It is important to remember that “Grave of the Fireflies” is an animated film version of the novel of the same name.
Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies) is a short story by Japanese novelist ”Akiyuki Nosaka”, based on Nosaka's own true war experience.
The original novel was published in the October issue of “All Yomimono” magazine in 1967, and was awarded Japan's 58th ”Naoki Prize” the following spring.
Although the novel “Grave of the Fireflies” is not a complete documentary, the subject of bereavement of a younger sister during wartime was created with autobiographical elements that strongly reflect the author Akiyuki Nosaka's actual experiences as a boy and his feelings at that time.
He lost his house and his family to severe burns in the indiscriminate air raid on Kobe by the U.S. Air Force on June 5, 1945.
The novel is based on Nosaka's memories of his boyhood, including digging food out of the burnt ruins and carrying it by himself to the evacuation site of Nishinomiya City, and his memories of nature and the beautiful fireflies he experienced there.
This animation is better viewed as an adaptation of an original work than as a creative work by Ghibli. The evaluation should also include the novel on which it is based.
It is common in all wars that those who suffer the most in any war are not those who made the decision to wage war, but the civilians involved and the children who lost their parents. The subject of this story is based on the author's actual experience, which is perhaps what the author wants to convey.
He wanted to depict what war looks like from the eyes of ordinary people and children and the damage it causes, and that the greatest victims are vulnerable people like children. This is a depiction of the reality of war from the perspective of a victimized child.
Animated works are easy to see beyond the language barrier because of their visuals.
However, the amount of written stories created in Japan is vastly greater than the number and history of animated works.
（Japan is home to many novelists and works of fiction, and it was Japan that produced “The Tale of Genji,” said to be the world's first full-length love story some 1,200 years ago.）
It should not be forgotten that it is this historical backbone that has given birth to many animated works as derivatives and additions, as a variant of narrative creation.
The intense fires created around Hiroshima by the bomb carried large quantities of ash into the atmosphere. The ash had the effect of 'seeding' the clouds and the result was a 'black rain' which fell 1-2 hours after the explosion.
This is a true story of a novelist Akiyuki Nosaka. I remember that he was painfully crying in the interview about this movie. No More War!
Whoever recommended this animated movie for you to watch on Christmas is a Psychopath..
The sad reality that is the truth today for children suffering around the world and in Gaza. They are starving and dying from the violence. Pray for peace
During war y do normal people have to suffer. The most touching is this movie is base on real story.
この映画はアメリカを悪とはしていません。憎むべきは戦争そのもの。
できる事ならば二度と繰り返さない様考えるべきです。
What an interesting choice to watch/react to this movie on a Christmas Week.
There are countless war films, but very few which focus on parts that aren't directly related to the battle. "The Best Years of our Lives" (1946) does a great job at depicting the challenges of returning soldiers. Also, Ingmar Bergman's "Shame" and this excellent film show the cost of War on civilians.
Yeah, I feel like it's often overlooked that it's the civilians who pay. And the fact that in western media anything to do with WWII has clearly cast "good guys" and "bad guys," seeing a film that shows Japanese civilians and how regardless of the role the nation played, the average person had absolutely nothing to do with it. War is hell.
I’m from the town where Seita and Setsuko were born (where the author was born and raised) and we still have the beach, the river and the station he died. I’m glad you guys watched this but a wrong choice for Christmas 😂
火垂るの墓は小学生のとき初めて見ました
大人になり見ると子供のときには感じなかったことを感じるようになります
悲しくなる映画だが、個人的には大人になって1度は見るべき映画だと思う