Hotaru no Haka, juga dikenal sebagai Kuburan Kunang-kunang, adalah kisah Seita dan saudara perempuannya Setsuko, dua anak Jepang yang hidupnya hancur akibat perang brutal. Mereka telah kehilangan ibu, ayah, rumah, dan prospek masa depan mereka yang cerah & mdash; semua konsekuensi tragis perang.

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$5 millionGrave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka) is a 1988 anime movie written and directed by for the company.This is the first film produced by Shinchosha, who hired to do the animation production work. It is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, intended as a personal apology to the author's own sister.Some critics—most notably Roger Ebert—consider it to be one of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made. Animation historian Ernest Rister compares the film to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and says, 'it is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen.' Contents PlotTaking place toward the end of World War II in Japan, Grave of the Fireflies is the poignant tale of the relationship between two orphaned children, and his younger sister. The children lose their in the firebombing of, and in service to the. As a result, they are forced to try to survive amidst widespread famine and the callous indifference of their countrymen (some of whom are their own extended family members).The movie begins in. The second main character, Seita, is there in rags and dying from starvation.

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Later that night, a janitor comes and digs through his things; finding a candy tin that contains Setsuko's ashes. He throws it out, and from there springs the spirit of Setsuko, Seita and a group of fireflies.

The two spirits provide narrative throughout the story. The film is, in effect, an extended flashback about Japan near the end of World War II, during the Kōbe firebombings. Setsuko and Seita, the two siblings and protagonists, are left to secure their house and their belongings in order to allow their mother, who suffers from a heart condition, to precede them to the bomb shelter.They are caught off-guard by a batch of bombs dropped in their vicinity, but survive unscathed. Their mother, however, is fatally injured in the air raid and is taken to a makeshift hospital which is actually a school, where she dies from burn wounds.Having nowhere else to live, Setsuko and Seita go to live with, and write letters to their father. On the second day that they stay there, Seita goes out to get the left over supplies which he had buried in the ground to preserve them before the bombing which killed their mother.

He gives all of it to his aunt, but hides a small tin of fruit drops. This tin of fruit drops later proves a recurrent icon in the film.Following cruelty from their aunt, who gives them barely enough food, insults them and sells their mother's kimonos for rice (which she keeps for herself), Seita and Setsuko finally decide to go and live in an old, abandoned bomb shelter. They release fireflies into the shelter for light. The next day, Setsuko is horrified to find that the insects have all died. She buries them all in a grave, asking why they had to die, and why her mother had to die.Gradually, they begin to run out of rice, and Setsuko begins to starve.

Seita turns to stealing from local farmers and looting homes during air raids for supplies. When finally caught, he realizes his desperation and takes an increasingly-ill Setsuko to a doctor, who informs him that Setsuko is suffering from malnutrition, but offers no help. When he learns of his father's death, Seita removes all the money from their mother's bank account and purchases a large quantity of food for Setsuko. Rushing back to the shelter, he finds a dying Setsuko hallucinating. She is sucking marbles which she believes are fruit drops.

She offers him 'rice balls' which are really only made out of mud. Seita hurries to cook, but it's too late: Setsuko dies of starvation. Seita cremates her, using supplies donated to him by a farmer and leaves her ashes in the fruit tin, which he carries with his father's photograph, until his death from malnutrition in Sannomiya Station a few weeks later.At the end of the film, the spirits of Seita and Setsuko are seen—no longer raggedy and etiolated but healthy and well-dressed—happy as they sit together, surrounded by fireflies. Together, they look down on the modern-day city of Kobe.Story origin and interpretationsThe story is based on the semi-autobiographic novel by the same name, whose author, Nosaka, lost his sister due to malnutrition in 1945 wartime Japan. He blamed himself for her death and wrote the story so as to make amends to her and help him accept the tragedy.Due to the graphic and truly emotional depiction of the negative consequences of war on society and the individuals therein, some critics have viewed Grave of the Fireflies as an anti-war film. The film does provide an insight into Japanese culture by focusing its attention almost entirely on the personal tragedies that wars give rise to, rather than seeking to glamorize it as a heroic struggle between competing ideologies.About the titleJapanese nouns do not change to form plurals, so hotaru can refer to one firefly or many. Seita and Setsuko catch fireflies and use them to illuminate the bomb shelter in which they live.

The next day, Setsuko digs a grave for all of the dead insects, and asks 'Why do fireflies die so soon?' , so the title might serve to heighten the symbolic and thematic significance of the incident.Alternatively, it may be that Setsuko is the 'firefly' of the title, herself dying young. If so, the title can be interpreted as A Grave for a Firefly. Or to maintain the lack of distinction over plurals, The Firefly Grave could also be used.In the Japanese title of the movie the word hotaru (firefly) is written not with its usual kanji 蛍 but with the two kanji 火 (hi, fire) and 垂 (tareru, to dangle down, as a droplet of water about to fall from a leaf). This can evoke images of fireflies as droplets of fire. Some consider that this evokes senkō hanabi, a fire droplet firework (a sparkler firework which is held upside down).

This is particularly poignant in this respect because it must be held very still or the fire will drop and die, which represents the fragility of life. Senkō hanabi also evoke images of family, because it is a summer tradition in Japan for families to enjoy fireworks together. Fireworks, in general, are considered to be another symbol of the ephemerality of life. Watching fireflies is another summer family tradition. Together, the references evoke the bond between Seita and Setsuko, but at the same time emphasize their isolation due to the absence of their parents.Alternatively, pairing the two kanji for 'fire' and 'dangle down' may also be a metaphor for the experience of aerial bombing using incendiary weapons. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the Japanese during the war sometimes referred to falling and exploding incendiary bomblets as 'fireflies.' Firefly symbolismParticular firefly symbolism in the movie:.

Actual fireflies (who died and are buried by Setsuko). The children themselves, especially Setsuko, who died young. Kamikaze planes and pilots: Setsuko observes that a passing kamikaze plane looks like a firefly. Incendiary bomblets (as in the title kanji)Mature fireflies which emit light have extremely short life spans of two to three weeks and are traditionally regarded as a symbol of impermanence, which resonates with much of classical Japanese tradition (as with cherry blossoms). Fireflies are also symbolic of the human soul ('Hitodama'), which is depicted as a floating, flickering fireball.