CriticCrunch has 1 Masahiro Kanetake titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Grave of the Fireflies.
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
Dir. Isao Takahata · With Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara
