Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no haka) Director Isao Takahata (Takahata Isao in Japanese) Year of production: 1988 The anime film is based on a short story (1967) by Akiyuki Nosaka. The film shows Second World War (War in the Pacific) from the opposite side – through the eyes of people in Japan who suffered heavily from shortage of food and from air raids. Two children – a brother and a sister – find it difficult to survive in the cruel conditions at the end of the war. [DEL: Youtube (as of Nov. 2019) :DEL] [DEL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vldWhL5JQxg :DEL] Youtube as of Sept 2020 [DEL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsGQGrUiJJo :DEL] Japanese, with English subtitles (YT link as of 26 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4aGHrRRfAQ&t=1009s Dubbed into English (YT link as of Oct 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFsy1NoGlNo