Films we saw.

The grave of the fireflies


This story takes place in Japan in 1945, near Kôbe. A teenager, Seita, dies in a station. His spirit meets again his little sister, called Setsuko, who died during the war in the pacific.
The two spirits travel in the past, and go back just before the 2nd World War when bombs destroyed their house and their city, and when their mother died. As their mother was dead, they had to go to their aunt to eat and sleep, but she wasn’t very nice with them, so they didn’t like her.
Finally, they decided to live alone and to go to a deserted shelter, near a river. But one day, as they didn’t have food enough, Setsuko fell seriously sick. That’s the reason why Seita went to the bank and asked for his mother’s savings in order to buy healthy food for his sister. But he didn’t manage to care for her, and she died.


C’est l’histoire de Seita et Setsuko, deux esprits revenant dans le passé au moment de la guerre qu’ils ont vécu...


• Opinions :

>Frédéric :
I think that the film was sad, but boring because there’s no action, I didn’t like the film very much.

>Marion :
For me, this film was interesting because it talked about the war in the Pacific. But it was also sad, when Seita’s mother and his sister died.