The grave of the fireflies

The grave of the fireflies

a film by studio Ghibli

This film tells the story of two siblings, the older bhrother has fourteen years and the litter sister has around four or five years. They live in Japan, in midst of the second world war. Their father works as a military Navy, so he doesn’t appear throughout the film. Their mother dies at the beginning because of bombs. When their mother dies they go to house of their aunt, after having some problems whit his aunt, they decide to live alone. They decide to live in a cave near the village and next to a lake. At the first they try to obtain food selling the clothes of thier mother, after they eat all they find ( food like roots and frogs), at the end when the older brother realize that her sister was dying of starvation and disease, he decide to star stealing. It was too late and the younger sister dies, the older brother keeps her bones after burn her and he dies of hung after a while.

This is a very beatiful, sad and cruel film.