The fourteen year old Seita and her sister Setsuko remained orphaned after the death of the mother, which took place during an air raid of the American forces in Kobe. It is not difficult to understand that, like them, there have been thousands of them, during the Second World War, of girls and boys who remained without parents. Or disappeared. Or killed. It is not complicated to understand, if only we put a little empathy, that this thing still happens here, in Gaza and in other parts of the world.
It is with this mood that you can (and must) see “The tomb of the fireflies”, The director’s undisputed masterpiece Isao Takahataproduced by the Ghibli studio, in which Akiyuki Nosaka’s partly autobiographical story becomes the evident sign of the cruelty of the human being.
The movie
The film is one of the deepest and more moving of the study, originally released in 1988 and is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Akiyuki Nosaka, “Hotaru No Haka”. Unlike other works by the study, which often incorporate fantastic elements, “La Tomba delle Lucciole” connotes its almost brutal realism and for the raw story of the difficulties experienced by Japanese civilians during the war.
Set during the last days of the Second World War, the tragic story of Seita, a fourteen year old, and her little sister Setsuko, who struggle to survive after the loss of their parents during the bombings on Kobe.
A heartbreaking vision, a story that you already know how you will go, but that you cannot do without, something that overwhelms the soul for that realistic representation of the horrors of the war. Scenes to which we have dangerously used to us if, after 80 years, they still exist in their absolute inhumanity.
Lucky Red has announced that it will distribute the film in Italian cinemas for a week, from 18 to 24 September 2025. It will be available both in dubbed version and in the original version with the subtitles. It will also be possible to organize school projections by contacting the e-mail address schoolworkstluckyred.it
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