Thursday, July 18, 2024
Grave of the Fireflies
- Commentary: Under construction.
I've known about this movie and have wanted to see it since relatively soon after it came out. It was not available to English-speaking audiences, though, until 1998, and then very hard to find and very expensive to procure. It's still a bit pricey, but much more easily available, and quite a bit cheaper than it was "back then".
Roger Ebert christened it one of his Great Movies in 2000. In 2018 a fellow movie critic from Roger's site published a tribute to the film's creator, Isao Takahata upon his death that year.
Isao Takahata was a stunning animator and story teller. You've probably seen several of his productions listed in the tribute linked above. I am really looking forward to absorbing this movie of his.
More later.
I will, by the way, be adding an Actor/Role Table later. The movie has been released in at least three English dubbed/and-or subtitled versions and thus requires a bit of tweaking to my usual list, so, give me "a moment", please, to figure out the presentation and to determine which iteration I was able to procure. I won't definitely know which one I've got until I receive the movie, and it won't make it to me until August 5th.
Update 072924: The movie arrived today @ 1:45 p.m. via FedEx. Very securely packaged. I'm impressed, and I haven't yet played it. I'll be adding the Actor/Role table, in English, later today. Thank you, Amazon.co.jp!
MOVIE CHARACTERS Seita Yokokawa Setsuko Yokokawa Seita and Setsuko's Mother Relative's Aunt Aunt's Daughter Doctor JAPANESE ACTORS Tsutomu Tatsumi Ayano Shiraishi Yoshiko Shinohara Akemi Yamaguchi Kazumi Nozaki Hiroshi Kawaguchi ENGLISH ACTORS 1998 J. Robert Spencer Corinne Orr Veronica Taylor Amy Jones Shannon Conley Dan Green
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1998
Directed by Isao Takahata.
Labels: animated, survival, war3
