This is a movie you only see once. The author Akiyuki Nosaka (The real Seita) wrote the semi-biographical novel that this film was based on as an apology to his sister who died of malnutrition during the war and as a way to assuage his survivor's guilt. He passed away a few years ago.
I cried from reading the Wikipedia description of this movie. Still was not prepared for the visual of him finally gets back to her after finding food only to find her fading.
I was really happy in the scene close to the ending where he goes to his sister and tells her that he finally got enough money to buy some food for her, but finds her laying there. I was happy she would actually survive, untill he said in the background after she said she's gonna rest for a while that she never woke up after that. Devastated, a beautiful narration of the losses the people from the 40's faced. My heart really goes out to the people that lost their loved ones during that.
You got that absolutely right because once is all you need to see how impacting this heartbreaking story really is as I've seen it only once and still remember everything from it. Tell me that's not incredible. I'm going to come off as very heartless here but in my opinion Seita and Setsuko's deaths are his fault in this story and could've been totally avoided altogether so as a result of me seeing it the way I did yes this was extremely sad to see and watch but I didn't cry to it only because Seita because of his pride and unwilling to endure a harsh relationship with his abusive resentful bitch(I can't even censor myself here as she really is a bitch here)of an Aunt is directly what leads to his and his sister's death. However to add insult to injury the story is partially done from the Aunt's perspective as well so we see how she's feeling as well as Seita and Setsuko refuse to contribute anything to the current family they have or the household with Seita throwing up excuses as well as weaponize his status as the son of a Navy captain during WWII instead of trying to work or go to some school of some sorts while the Aunt's daughter and husband who I assume are his cousin and uncle respectively are busy risking their lives working very hard making sure everybody else is okay. You would feel extremely resentful if you were in the Aunt's shoes and remember this was WWII so you were expected to contribute at least a minimal effort in aid efforts to say the least but instead of contributing something Seita decides to weaponize his position as the son of Navy captain and abuse it to avoid working and then runs away with his sister when things really don't work out and refuses to return even when it means he'll live and be safe so I'm sorry if I have no sympathy for Seita here but from what I saw here I feel I'm in the right in my opinion. That doesn't mean I hate him I just don't sympathise with him as he could've lived. By the way I got all of this from one single viewing of Grave of the fireflies
I have a little sister. She is so caring and I would give my life for her. Because she is all I have now. Our parents are gone and if it wasn't for her... I would be gone by now.
When I first saw this movie, I thought that the cityscape shown was modern-day Tokyo, but the truth is so tragic.. It's their hometown Kobe in present-day, the town that was destroyed in the movie. Their home was gone when they left this world, but their souls could see that Kobe lives on in the present day..
They have to wander for all of eternity watching the world go by. But they got each other so they still act as if they were alive. I don’t think setsuna realizes she died and her brother still parents her in a normal routine. He would be fully aware of time passes with out them.
Actually that scene could entail the sibling safe guarding the new Japan since that was the popular discussion on how to deal with pain of losing love ones. So that they won’t think they all died in vains
There’s another thing to this. Culturally they believed when you die you go to 1 of 3 places; heaven, hell or…there’s a word for it but basically if you die with regrets or anything like really strong feeling you become earth bound. He blamed himself for his sisters death and just never moved on and his version of death was making it up to and caring for his sister. Can think back to the scene when the kid ran out of the cave saying he saw a ghost, that could have been Seita’s spirit.
one of the most powerful scenes in this movie for me is the cityscape at the very end. It acts as a hand that connects 2 worlds: Seita and Setsuko's world in the past, and our world in present day reality (or in this case, 80s Japan). It brings us closer to their story, and makes it feel even more tangible.
Um, they get to go to an afterlife and witness modern Tokyo. I'd say the fact there is an afterlife where satsuko is not only happy to see her brother but having totally forgiven/forgotten about what happened is a testament that it doesn't end fully bleakly
Setsuko died when Japan surrendered on September 2, Seita died September 21. He lived exactly 19 days after her dead. I think he didn’t die of hunger, he just didn’t want to live anymore
the shot panning up over the glowing modern city, showing that the ghosts of the children and all these people that suffered will always be with the Japanese people, extremely powerful
I remember our teacher showed this to all of us during elementary. All of us cried. But this movie teaches me a lesson that war is not cool. There are no winners or losers in battlefields. Only deaths.
Oh, there are winners in war. The cowards who profit from it without ever going anywhere near a battlefield. They are the true enemy, the only real enemy.
This movie make me cry everytime. The fact this isn't juts a "movie" it's a history, it's telling Us war Never have something good, war is cruel, nobody deserve war
The rest of the comments are so right, truly a "one-time-watch" kind of movie. Beautiful film, but this part right here, has me bawling every single time. Bawling as I type this comment .
@@abbyg3404I still remember, when I watched this, I was horrified every single day for at least 1 and a half weeks cuz of the amount of grief I got from watching this once
The soundtrack is hauntingly beautiful it’s the flute that gets me everytime. It brings out a feeling of despair it’s honestly the best arranged music in the ending scene that soundtrack is very legendary and could not have composed a better soundtrack for the movie.
Modern cities, modern lives; living in peace and progress of the old and tormented ashes, and they were finally free from what had been a time of horrendous betrayal and unrest. To all the Seita and Setsuko, may your great and innocent souls Rest in Great Eternity.
I watched it for the first time during COVID time. It was both the best time and worst time to watch it. Worst because it didn’t helped me escape reality. Best because it made me reflect how a crisis change people’s lives forever (and with the war on Ukraine even more confirmed it). I feel blessed to watch this life-changing film. Sometimes film isn’t supposed to be fun. It’s supposed to make you think.
This movie had me sobbing like a baby. The suffering of children is such a heartwrenching topic. These kids did not deserve this, so many little ones suffered during this war. Children should never experience war, not then and not now
There's a little bit of an Easter egg in "Spirited Away" for this movie. The spirit of Setsuko is waiting for her brother on one of the train platforms...
I didn’t know this at all, but as soon as I read your comment, I knew exactly which spirit you are talking about. For many years I wondered who that little girl was and I never connected the dots. Mind blown. Thank you
There isn’t a single scene of happiness in this movie if you think about it. Seita in the beginning dies and as the can with Setsuko’s remains are thrown onto the ground you can see Setsuko stare strangely at Seita. From the time of Setsuko’s death, Seita has had to live with the guilt of not trying to save his sister until it was too late. You can see every time the screen turns red, it can be seen as Seita’s built up guilt of not being able to save his sister. To summarise, Seita will have to always carry the guilt of his sisters death forever even into the afterlife.
The author even told the director of this animation to make Seita look like a bad person. (The author wrote this story as a semi-autobiography so the author is actually Seita)
The greatest film no-one ever wants to watch again. First time I watched it and it cuts to Setsuko in her coffin was the first time in a long time I couldn't stop myself from crying War is hell, anyone who says otherwise is either lying or insane
1:31 when i saw this scene i was on the brick of crying, then i noticed it was getting darker and i literally whispered "please don't let firefly appears please" after they start flying i couldn't control my tears.
I watched this one week ago for the first time and still i haven't recovered from this beautiful and tragic movie. I can't stop crying everytime I remember this scene.
The ending of this movie makes me cry without fail every single time… And it is impossible to make me cry at almost anything… My own Grandma dying didn’t make me cry, but this movie drags it out of me every single time… Perhaps it’s something unique about civilian and child deaths during wars, they are innocent people caught in a conflict that is, in most cases, not even necessary… “Weapons are the tools of violence; all decent men detest them. Weapons are the tools of fear; a decent man will avoid them except in the direst necessity and, if compelled, will use them only with the utmost restraint. Peace is his highest value. If the peace has been shattered, how can he be content? His enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. He doesn’t wish them personal harm. Nor does he rejoice in victory. How could he rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? He enters a battle gravely, with sorrow and with great compassion, as if he were attending a funeral.” -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Verse 31.
I watched this when i was about 12 years old. The ending made my heart so crushed even now. The scene where they are just there at the bench looking at the city. Its so heart breaking
i can’t ever watch this movie again the amount of grief ,sadness ,depression this movie instilled into me…. yeah there’s sad then there’s this movie….absolutely heartbreaking poor setsuko….poor seita it really hurts thinking there where so many children that went through that same situation…..
The look he gave her right before he put the lid on the box. You can see the thought, “This is going to be the final time I’ll see my sister.” I have two young daughters and the feeling of not being able to provide for them and for them to become malnourished messes with me. I’d sacrifice my own health and life for them to continue to live in the world and see more better days. This movie really strikes a cord if you have younger family members and children of your own.
The ending as highly depressing as it is at least ends with the final shot of him dying too and them finding each other again in the afterlife. (Is how I interpreted it.) The fact that this is technically an autobiography and the man who wrote it experienced the exact same thing but had to keep going on and keep living after that. At least this way it ends where he *does* see his sister again. And maybe they've found each other again in the afterlife now. But I could never imagine in any way fighting and scraping that hard for the life of someone you love... Just to come back only to find them gone as soon as you can *finally* help them. Having to live with that. Live in spite of that. And the fact this story was written as a form of survivor's guilt on top of all that. I can't even *fathom* how horrible that feeling truly is.
I saw this movie "cold" (not knowing anything about it) at a afternoon theatrical screening in 1998 when I was 24 years old and it was the first movie to make me cry since I was like three years old.
My heart can rest that Seita and Setsuko are in a better place where they are together and happy again. I know they are fictional but rest in peace to them, the world did not deserve those poor two young souls. 😔
Whats even more bitter is that whilst Setsuko and Seita both become victims of war from starvation and neglect is that they are sadly but only one of many more children whom lost everything and family in WW2 :( and peoples attitudes in the film at a time especially when Japan was eventually on defensive and how Seita was compelled under pressure to comply and cooperate yet Setsuko perishes from starvation and Seita not long afterwards and how at the train station people are apathetic to his death and other dead youths nearby as well and how the janitor cleaners just cast away the tin of Setsukos remains 😢😮😮😢
I've found what hurts the most are the happy moments in between. Setsuko is so full of life. So much so that you forget the end that awaits her. Knowing that she, and others like her were robbed of their future is gut wrenching and to me, infuriating.
Anyone else noticed Seita looked at us before he looked away? it seemed he broke the fourth wall, but not sure what that was for or if it was meant for us.
This is hitting me so hard cause I have a little sister who sees me and my little brother as her world, to the point where she would tell people that she as awesome brothers and now, I am imagining me in the lad’s position with my sister in the lass’s position…
I haven't seen the movie but heard of it so I got to this video and balled my eyes out just because I have a child and know I couldn't live through what the character is living through. I will never be able to watch that movie. I know its a masterfully crafted movie but also know It will make me feel something I never want to be exposed to.
When I first saw this movie, I wondered what was going on with their aunt who won't feed them. My research shows that in the last year of the war, Japan's food shortages were extreme, and so was child mortality. The youngest children were fed last, and the mother were too malnourished to nurse babies. It's a footnote event that's left out of the history book. I hear that as a result, the generation gap for Japanese born after 1945 (at least the ones who lived) was very large.
This is all what happens with war. Japanese’s done war crimes too, especially Indonesia. But there will never be a winner in wars, only sorrows and victims. As a human, this movie conveys humanity.
This reminds me of my little cousin who died right before the month it was was going to born. It died as it’s heartbeat slowly began to stop. The joy it brought to the family when it was expected was gone. We prepared everything for it joyfully thinking how we would play with it how we would keep him always happy how much everyone how much I wanted to give him a lot of remarkable moments. Maybe it wasn’t destined to see the world and to see us. May Allah bless this poor little innocent soul.
KOBE 1980S...reviewing the end of this clip ... any visitor or resident of Kobe should view the end to appreciate the sacrifice and yet modern tjmes and yet that was 1980s Kobe.... its nearly 40 years since the film was made and of the mid 1980s era.... soon enough the 2020s and 2030s Kobe ... or one day in 2045 within 100 years of WWII and well nearly 60 years since the film was made when one watches this clip they should truly appreciate and marvel yet also respect the sentiments of the film 😮😢
I watched it yesterday and I proudly say, let the pampered children of this generation watch it after a certain age, it will make them respect whatever little they get.
I remember I turned this movie on for my little sister I left the room came back an hour later the credits were on the screen and she was crying her eyes out
That doll will never passed to a child or grandchild or even as an artifact with a story to tell future generations and well even kids who are born this decade... considering a sad thing is that many youth these days may not know or care about history from WWII or just get info from movies and games and never understand what ancestors went through...
I watched this much like the rest of you - as an afterthought to the big name Miyazaki films. It immediately made me know the name Isao Takahata. No animated film before this devastated me this way.
My all time best last animation is Grave of the fireflies". and for this girl i am so very emotion and i cry look like this two children is my children and after i like japan country after seen this animation.
I'm glad I can't remember going through the Vietnam War. My parents took us from Laos, and we made it to Thailand. A couple of years later, my family we came to the USA. It's just like the movie "The Killing Fields". I'm so blessed not to grow up during any war and die of starvation. Blessed all the souls that are still with us wandering in the afterlife. 😢
Sad to me that people are currently experiencing these kinds of things as we speak. Its boggles my mind that there are human beings who can push for war or profit over it, completely detached from the human suffering
I have a little girl, almost the age of Setsuko. And when I saw this film I cried so much. I don't know if it's because now I'm a father and I don't support the idea of losing my baby girl. This movie is amazing
My paternal grandparents born 1939 and 1941 would have been around Setsukos age in WWII whilst my late maternal grandparents born 1933 and 1934 would be around Seitas age in WWII ... and they grew up in Taiwan where my late maternal grandfather in 1941 1942 already started working in a lumber yard factory for the Japanese war effort at just 7 to 8 years old...I often wonder much had they also had gone through or never met or faced a similar fate what would have happened would I or even my parents or relatives have been around? 😮😢
Evrry day i think about setsuki, every day i would lkke to buy her chocolates or toys and evrry day i would gut myself thinking wish i can be there to save her...its heart breakkng, i cried and my whatsapp dp are the siblings, setsuki ❤ it was painful
I know its an author true story that her sister died in WW2 but I wish that ending would be something like this: Seita knows he and Setsuko will not be able to survive this war, therefore he entrusts Setsuko to the policeman or a farmer or a refugee camp or even their aunt and he tries to live on his own until he finally death. Setsuko lives to tell this story to newer generations. She will tell to the new generations the hardship of war. She will tell that even if our country lost during the war, her brother is her hero. She will tell that even in the darkest time, her brother did everything to made her happy. Until today, I don't understand the fact that Setsuko died before Seita, it seems so wrong to me. Yes, Seita also died at the end, but I think it happened because he got no more will to live, since all of his family members died.
I have watched this in school when I was like 6-8 or smth , This movie is sad but a really good movie. I have also tried their candy droplet thing , those thing are really i mean , REALLY GOOD
This is a movie you only see once. The author Akiyuki Nosaka (The real Seita) wrote the semi-biographical novel that this film was based on as an apology to his sister who died of malnutrition during the war and as a way to assuage his survivor's guilt. He passed away a few years ago.
I cried from reading the Wikipedia description of this movie. Still was not prepared for the visual of him finally gets back to her after finding food only to find her fading.
I was really happy in the scene close to the ending where he goes to his sister and tells her that he finally got enough money to buy some food for her, but finds her laying there. I was happy she would actually survive, untill he said in the background after she said she's gonna rest for a while that she never woke up after that. Devastated, a beautiful narration of the losses the people from the 40's faced. My heart really goes out to the people that lost their loved ones during that.
You got that absolutely right because once is all you need to see how impacting this heartbreaking story really is as I've seen it only once and still remember everything from it. Tell me that's not incredible. I'm going to come off as very heartless here but in my opinion Seita and Setsuko's deaths are his fault in this story and could've been totally avoided altogether so as a result of me seeing it the way I did yes this was extremely sad to see and watch but I didn't cry to it only because Seita because of his pride and unwilling to endure a harsh relationship with his abusive resentful bitch(I can't even censor myself here as she really is a bitch here)of an Aunt is directly what leads to his and his sister's death. However to add insult to injury the story is partially done from the Aunt's perspective as well so we see how she's feeling as well as Seita and Setsuko refuse to contribute anything to the current family they have or the household with Seita throwing up excuses as well as weaponize his status as the son of a Navy captain during WWII instead of trying to work or go to some school of some sorts while the Aunt's daughter and husband who I assume are his cousin and uncle respectively are busy risking their lives working very hard making sure everybody else is okay. You would feel extremely resentful if you were in the Aunt's shoes and remember this was WWII so you were expected to contribute at least a minimal effort in aid efforts to say the least but instead of contributing something Seita decides to weaponize his position as the son of Navy captain and abuse it to avoid working and then runs away with his sister when things really don't work out and refuses to return even when it means he'll live and be safe so I'm sorry if I have no sympathy for Seita here but from what I saw here I feel I'm in the right in my opinion. That doesn't mean I hate him I just don't sympathise with him as he could've lived. By the way I got all of this from one single viewing of Grave of the fireflies
I get more and more out of it with each viewing but I know why you’re saying
I thought that was barefoot Gen
I have a little sister. She is so caring and I would give my life for her. Because she is all I have now. Our parents are gone and if it wasn't for her... I would be gone by now.
Don't know what kind of problems you're dealing with... but I hope you two are ok and if not, I wish everything gets better soon for both of you bro
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I wish you luck man
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When I first saw this movie, I thought that the cityscape shown was modern-day Tokyo, but the truth is so tragic.. It's their hometown Kobe in present-day, the town that was destroyed in the movie. Their home was gone when they left this world, but their souls could see that Kobe lives on in the present day..
They have to wander for all of eternity watching the world go by. But they got each other so they still act as if they were alive. I don’t think setsuna realizes she died and her brother still parents her in a normal routine. He would be fully aware of time passes with out them.
Actually that scene could entail the sibling safe guarding the new Japan since that was the popular discussion on how to deal with pain of losing love ones. So that they won’t think they all died in vains
There’s another thing to this. Culturally they believed when you die you go to 1 of 3 places; heaven, hell or…there’s a word for it but basically if you die with regrets or anything like really strong feeling you become earth bound.
He blamed himself for his sisters death and just never moved on and his version of death was making it up to and caring for his sister.
Can think back to the scene when the kid ran out of the cave saying he saw a ghost, that could have been Seita’s spirit.
one of the most powerful scenes in this movie for me is the cityscape at the very end. It acts as a hand that connects 2 worlds: Seita and Setsuko's world in the past, and our world in present day reality (or in this case, 80s Japan). It brings us closer to their story, and makes it feel even more tangible.
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In this movie, not only there is no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
@@Florence9a9machine It’s from Series of Unfortunate Events. I just substituted “book” for “movie”.
Even happy things in the middle will make you cry because you know deep inside that is not going to last
Um, they get to go to an afterlife and witness modern Tokyo. I'd say the fact there is an afterlife where satsuko is not only happy to see her brother but having totally forgiven/forgotten about what happened is a testament that it doesn't end fully bleakly
@@coletrainhetrickit’s Kobe
@user-iv5xt6vn6d hiroshima isnt it?
Setsuko died when Japan surrendered on September 2, Seita died September 21. He lived exactly 19 days after her dead. I think he didn’t die of hunger, he just didn’t want to live anymore
why they have censored showing his death in the train station
@@MomentMosaic it did show in the beginning
The real Seita (Akiyuki Nosaka) asked that his anime counterpart die because he had wanted to die with his loved ones. He passed away 9 years ago.
@@СвятославПавлов-е5ц Who could’ve blamed him. He had nothing left to lose.
the shot panning up over the glowing modern city, showing that the ghosts of the children and all these people that suffered will always be with the Japanese people, extremely powerful
My country Argentina has suffered events like Falklands War and as an Argentine that is sad
@@joaquinvaleri7022lol that's nothing compared to this
@@shad118Can you be more kind, please? This was rude, traumas and tragic events shouldn't be compared, it's not a competition.
@@shad118 this is serious and knocked it off!
I remember our teacher showed this to all of us during elementary. All of us cried. But this movie teaches me a lesson that war is not cool. There are no winners or losers in battlefields. Only deaths.
Oh, there are winners in war. The cowards who profit from it without ever going anywhere near a battlefield. They are the true enemy, the only real enemy.
Industrialists are the only ones who win in war.
And sorrow
Not if you have shares in the right stocks, winlnwink.
But my little dark age and for the kaiser?
There is a time before and after watching this movie. I have no words.
People are gonna be CRUSHED when they release this on Netflix!! Be prepared!!
I was NOT prepared
@@specssighting nobody is 😞
@@specssightingnot at all either tiktok's probably gonna shit the bed over it
Oh my god…
This movie make me cry everytime.
The fact this isn't juts a "movie" it's a history, it's telling Us war Never have something good, war is cruel, nobody deserve war
Possibly this could happen in a other country rn
The rest of the comments are so right, truly a "one-time-watch" kind of movie. Beautiful film, but this part right here, has me bawling every single time. Bawling as I type this comment .
I cried every time I watched this movie it hurts seeing Seita and Setsuko like this. 😢
I can't rewatch this, it might broke me down
Unfortunately, no one has ever recovered from the grief.
@@abbyg3404I still remember, when I watched this, I was horrified every single day for at least 1 and a half weeks cuz of the amount of grief I got from watching this once
The saddest part,is that when she could be fed in time,she would still die
In the memory of the Argentine Soldiers who died in the Falklands War
@@joaquinvaleri7022 No one cares about that here this is about WW2 and it’s tragedies
@@GambledMyhouse and how about Vietnam War?
@@joaquinvaleri7022 dont bring that ynder this video
@mitsurisusedpad what is ynder?
The whole soundtrack has an eerie feeling to it which fits the movie perfectly
The soundtrack is hauntingly beautiful it’s the flute that gets me everytime.
It brings out a feeling of despair it’s honestly the best arranged music in the ending scene that soundtrack is very legendary and could not have composed a better soundtrack for the movie.
Studio ghibli soundtracks never miss
Modern cities, modern lives; living in peace and progress of the old and tormented ashes, and they were finally free from what had been a time of horrendous betrayal and unrest. To all the Seita and Setsuko, may your great and innocent souls Rest in Great Eternity.
Rest in piece 😢🤍🕊️
The ending music always gets me man. Watched it in 2017 and never wanna watch it again, amazing movie.
May your soul rest in peace Isao Takahata
I watched it for the first time during COVID time. It was both the best time and worst time to watch it. Worst because it didn’t helped me escape reality. Best because it made me reflect how a crisis change people’s lives forever (and with the war on Ukraine even more confirmed it). I feel blessed to watch this life-changing film. Sometimes film isn’t supposed to be fun. It’s supposed to make you think.
2:09 when his sister called his named despite they both died just broke me inside
How did the brother die? I'm confused on that part
@@ZEROX619XX he starved as well
she doesn’t even call his name, she calls him brother, which is even sadder in my opinion
In asian culture we don't call elder siblings names but brother. She is saying nee chan not seita.
@@ZEROX619XXmalnutrition his body used up all its resources
This is the kind of movie that hurts you and makes you a better person.
This movie had me sobbing like a baby. The suffering of children is such a heartwrenching topic. These kids did not deserve this, so many little ones suffered during this war. Children should never experience war, not then and not now
Many Soldiers suffered PTSD
There's a little bit of an Easter egg in "Spirited Away" for this movie. The spirit of Setsuko is waiting for her brother on one of the train platforms...
I didn’t know this at all, but as soon as I read your comment, I knew exactly which spirit you are talking about. For many years I wondered who that little girl was and I never connected the dots. Mind blown. Thank you
@@pastacork It's a rather bittersweet Easter egg, isn't it? She waited for him, and he did eventually return.
I would have never caught that in a million years. Thank you haha
I don't think is Setsuko. That girl is taller than her and ghosts don't age!
@@hipolito.machado It might be a perspective thing. I just know what Miyazaki said.
There isn’t a single scene of happiness in this movie if you think about it. Seita in the beginning dies and as the can with Setsuko’s remains are thrown onto the ground you can see Setsuko stare strangely at Seita. From the time of Setsuko’s death, Seita has had to live with the guilt of not trying to save his sister until it was too late. You can see every time the screen turns red, it can be seen as Seita’s built up guilt of not being able to save his sister. To summarise, Seita will have to always carry the guilt of his sisters death forever even into the afterlife.
The author even told the director of this animation to make Seita look like a bad person. (The author wrote this story as a semi-autobiography so the author is actually Seita)
A movie I will never rewatch again...
Damn bro, i has a long time without crying until now, the time she called his brother's name just ended breaking me.
The greatest film no-one ever wants to watch again. First time I watched it and it cuts to Setsuko in her coffin was the first time in a long time I couldn't stop myself from crying
War is hell, anyone who says otherwise is either lying or insane
So true. I was in tears when he lit the flames to cremate his sister.
1:31 when i saw this scene i was on the brick of crying, then i noticed it was getting darker and i literally whispered "please don't let firefly appears please" after they start flying i couldn't control my tears.
Have you seen a ghost of a soldier?
Even though I have watched it several times, the crying never stops 😢
Jesus Christ dude are you ok
me too😭,
Man also will cry 😭
SEVERAL?
My man pls seek a therapist because I don’t know anyone who would willingly watch it more than once 😭
It hurts too much
I've never stopped rewatching this. I don't know why people say you only watch one time.
She loves her brother and her brother loves her! ❤❤
I watched this one week ago for the first time and still i haven't recovered from this beautiful and tragic movie. I can't stop crying everytime I remember this scene.
The ending of this movie makes me cry without fail every single time… And it is impossible to make me cry at almost anything… My own Grandma dying didn’t make me cry, but this movie drags it out of me every single time…
Perhaps it’s something unique about civilian and child deaths during wars, they are innocent people caught in a conflict that is, in most cases, not even necessary…
“Weapons are the tools of violence; all decent men detest them. Weapons are the tools of fear; a decent man will avoid them except in the direst necessity and, if compelled, will use them only with the utmost restraint.
Peace is his highest value. If the peace has been shattered, how can he be content?
His enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
He doesn’t wish them personal harm. Nor does he rejoice in victory.
How could he rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
He enters a battle gravely, with sorrow and with great compassion, as if he were attending a funeral.”
-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Verse 31.
Same❤
This is one of those movies that’s a 10/10 and you can only stomach to watch it once in your life
I watched this when i was about 12 years old. The ending made my heart so crushed even now. The scene where they are just there at the bench looking at the city. Its so heart breaking
i can’t ever watch this movie again the amount of grief ,sadness ,depression this movie instilled into me…. yeah there’s sad then there’s this movie….absolutely heartbreaking poor setsuko….poor seita it really hurts thinking there where so many children that went through that same situation…..
The look he gave her right before he put the lid on the box. You can see the thought, “This is going to be the final time I’ll see my sister.”
I have two young daughters and the feeling of not being able to provide for them and for them to become malnourished messes with me.
I’d sacrifice my own health and life for them to continue to live in the world and see more better days.
This movie really strikes a cord if you have younger family members and children of your own.
M- m-my little cousin died before it was born😭
The ending as highly depressing as it is at least ends with the final shot of him dying too and them finding each other again in the afterlife. (Is how I interpreted it.)
The fact that this is technically an autobiography and the man who wrote it experienced the exact same thing but had to keep going on and keep living after that.
At least this way it ends where he *does* see his sister again.
And maybe they've found each other again in the afterlife now.
But I could never imagine in any way fighting and scraping that hard for the life of someone you love... Just to come back only to find them gone as soon as you can *finally* help them. Having to live with that. Live in spite of that.
And the fact this story was written as a form of survivor's guilt on top of all that.
I can't even *fathom* how horrible that feeling truly is.
@@ayushiabedin4530May they rest in peace. I’m sorry to hear that your cousin passed away before they were born.
2:41 Ending Broke Me
They're no happy endings in war. Just dead and pain
The most beautiful and tragic movie I never want to watch ever again
I saw this movie "cold" (not knowing anything about it) at a afternoon theatrical screening in 1998 when I was 24 years old and it was the first movie to make me cry since I was like three years old.
Man i cried like hell! My heart feels like a hole
My heart can rest that Seita and Setsuko are in a better place where they are together and happy again. I know they are fictional but rest in peace to them, the world did not deserve those poor two young souls. 😔
They are not fictional .. the movie is based on a true story 😢
Whats even more bitter is that whilst Setsuko and Seita both become victims of war from starvation and neglect is that they are sadly but only one of many more children whom lost everything and family in WW2 :( and peoples attitudes in the film at a time especially when Japan was eventually on defensive and how Seita was compelled under pressure to comply and cooperate yet Setsuko perishes from starvation and Seita not long afterwards and how at the train station people are apathetic to his death and other dead youths nearby as well and how the janitor cleaners just cast away the tin of Setsukos remains 😢😮😮😢
I've found what hurts the most are the happy moments in between. Setsuko is so full of life. So much so that you forget the end that awaits her. Knowing that she, and others like her were robbed of their future is gut wrenching and to me, infuriating.
Anyone else noticed Seita looked at us before he looked away? it seemed he broke the fourth wall, but not sure what that was for or if it was meant for us.
Yes
I think its telling Us, war is all cruel, please stop
This gives me goosebumps
This is hitting me so hard cause I have a little sister who sees me and my little brother as her world, to the point where she would tell people that she as awesome brothers and now, I am imagining me in the lad’s position with my sister in the lass’s position…
Didn't know of this movie til recently. This was a rough one. What hit me even harder is that Setsuko in many ways is like my daughter.
I haven't seen the movie but heard of it so I got to this video and balled my eyes out just because I have a child and know I couldn't live through what the character is living through. I will never be able to watch that movie. I know its a masterfully crafted movie but also know It will make me feel something I never want to be exposed to.
في غزة الآن..كم (سيتا).....حلقت روحها نحو السماء..تماماً مثل اليراعات المضيئة💔💔😭😭
The flute at the end sounds so beautiful. She was just a kid,so cute n sweet but,...😢😢
When I first saw this movie, I wondered what was going on with their aunt who won't feed them. My research shows that in the last year of the war, Japan's food shortages were extreme, and so was child mortality. The youngest children were fed last, and the mother were too malnourished to nurse babies. It's a footnote event that's left out of the history book. I hear that as a result, the generation gap for Japanese born after 1945 (at least the ones who lived) was very large.
This is all what happens with war. Japanese’s done war crimes too, especially Indonesia. But there will never be a winner in wars, only sorrows and victims. As a human, this movie conveys humanity.
Babies just little babies..
It's always the kids who are loser in war😢
This reminds me of my little cousin who died right before the month it was was going to born. It died as it’s heartbeat slowly began to stop. The joy it brought to the family when it was expected was gone. We prepared everything for it joyfully thinking how we would play with it how we would keep him always happy how much everyone how much I wanted to give him a lot of remarkable moments. Maybe it wasn’t destined to see the world and to see us. May Allah bless this poor little innocent soul.
KOBE 1980S...reviewing the end of this clip ... any visitor or resident of Kobe should view the end to appreciate the sacrifice and yet modern tjmes and yet that was 1980s Kobe.... its nearly 40 years since the film was made and of the mid 1980s era.... soon enough the 2020s and 2030s Kobe ... or one day in 2045 within 100 years of WWII and well nearly 60 years since the film was made when one watches this clip they should truly appreciate and marvel yet also respect the sentiments of the film 😮😢
Sad movie, I remember visiting Kobe Japan and thinking of this movie
I watched it yesterday and I proudly say, let the pampered children of this generation watch it after a certain age, it will make them respect whatever little they get.
may our children never face war. may no country face this because the ravages of war are devastating and long term and there's no coming back from it
You'll never be the same again after watching this movie.
Such a cheerful and uplifting movie. In all seriousness though. It really is a masterpiece.
When the lute start playing.
I remember I turned this movie on for my little sister I left the room came back an hour later the credits were on the screen and she was crying her eyes out
I have a little sister about Setsuko's age
I would show her this when she turns 8 or 10
That doll will never passed to a child or grandchild or even as an artifact with a story to tell future generations and well even kids who are born this decade... considering a sad thing is that many youth these days may not know or care about history from WWII or just get info from movies and games and never understand what ancestors went through...
It's such a sad ending 😢
I watched this movie once and I swear to god, I don’t have the heart to watch it again. I’m too weak to watch the horrors that happened to these 2 😢
Alas Kobe of the 1980s...if only Setsuko and Seita lived to see the changes and the 1980s Economics of Japan
I watched this much like the rest of you - as an afterthought to the big name Miyazaki films. It immediately made me know the name Isao Takahata. No animated film before this devastated me this way.
War has a cost, it has a human cost. it is up to us to make sure we never suffer this horribly again.
What a fantastic movie! Brilliant! I shall never watch it again!
My all time best last animation is Grave of the fireflies". and for this girl i am so very emotion and i cry look like this two children is my children and after i like japan country after seen this animation.
At first, correct your English, Kiddo.
When you get your kids,the impact is different,i have watched after i get my baby...the pain is different :(
I'm glad I can't remember going through the Vietnam War. My parents took us from Laos, and we made it to Thailand. A couple of years later, my family we came to the USA. It's just like the movie "The Killing Fields". I'm so blessed not to grow up during any war and die of starvation. Blessed all the souls that are still with us wandering in the afterlife. 😢
I nice to know that they got to reunite in the afterlife at the end. Tho wish we got a scene where thier parents also got to be with them.
Omg this movie breaks my heart into a million pieces.
This Is A Kind Of Movie That You Can Only See Once, Cuz You Never Find The Courage To Watch It Next Time 🥺
War is Hell
-William T. Sherman
War is War and Hell is Hell. Of the two, War is worse. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell.
@@Saria_Creed Sherman said it not me
War isn’t hell. Only the bad go to hell. In war everyone suffers, even the innocent.
@@ell3655 Sherman said it not me
@@tonybarde2572 e v e r y o n e k n o w s t h a t
This is a movie I’ll definitely watch again……….
20 years from now
Maybe with kids
@@arghyaprotimhalder5592 Ill watch it with my future son and daughter
I hope they care for each other like Seita and Setsuko
Very emotional anime 🇯🇵🇵🇸
That final shot is so powerful, as they stare over Modern Japan, completely forgotten by those who now live normal lives.
Sad to me that people are currently experiencing these kinds of things as we speak. Its boggles my mind that there are human beings who can push for war or profit over it, completely detached from the human suffering
I have a little girl, almost the age of Setsuko. And when I saw this film I cried so much. I don't know if it's because now I'm a father and I don't support the idea of losing my baby girl. This movie is amazing
I member seeing this with my mom and How much i coudent stop crying.
My paternal grandparents born 1939 and 1941 would have been around Setsukos age in WWII whilst my late maternal grandparents born 1933 and 1934 would be around Seitas age in WWII ... and they grew up in Taiwan where my late maternal grandfather in 1941 1942 already started working in a lumber yard factory for the Japanese war effort at just 7 to 8 years old...I often wonder much had they also had gone through or never met or faced a similar fate what would have happened would I or even my parents or relatives have been around? 😮😢
This is very saddest anime movie, i always make me cry a lot 😭😭😭😭😭 poor 2 children 😭😭😭😭😭😭
My Hadabajji has a similar life situation where he went to grab food for his dad. As soon as he got back. His dad died of heat stroke.
Lost and burried his dad with his sister. He was age 17 when he lost his dad. :(
Evrry day i think about setsuki, every day i would lkke to buy her chocolates or toys and evrry day i would gut myself thinking wish i can be there to save her...its heart breakkng, i cried and my whatsapp dp are the siblings, setsuki ❤ it was painful
I am soooooo looking further into this movie/masterpiece.
I cry everytime I see this
i cant watch this.. anymore 😢😢😢 IM broken inside
May they rest together in piece
Yep
fuck this movie man. Always gets me
I am crying, and you are too.
We humans are so cruel 😭😔
I'm traumatized by this movie when I was a child. Never watched it again....
The sad part is history repeating itself right now 😢
It's 2024 there's still war...
I know its an author true story that her sister died in WW2 but I wish that ending would be something like this:
Seita knows he and Setsuko will not be able to survive this war, therefore he entrusts Setsuko to the policeman or a farmer or a refugee camp or even their aunt and he tries to live on his own until he finally death.
Setsuko lives to tell this story to newer generations. She will tell to the new generations the hardship of war. She will tell that even if our country lost during the war, her brother is her hero. She will tell that even in the darkest time, her brother did everything to made her happy.
Until today, I don't understand the fact that Setsuko died before Seita, it seems so wrong to me. Yes, Seita also died at the end, but I think it happened because he got no more will to live, since all of his family members died.
😭😭😭😭😭😭 i hate the fact, it really happen to someone in real life 💔💔💔
At least they no longer had to suffer in the end.
If you hate this film I believe you have no heart
I have watched this in school when I was like 6-8 or smth ,
This movie is sad but a really good movie.
I have also tried their candy droplet thing , those thing are really i mean , REALLY GOOD
I have had 2 tins of HOTARU NO HAKA Candy TIN already
Having third now. Its a very special treat and they are of very high quality