Section23 Films has announced the release of GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES, one of the rare films that truly deserves to be called a masterpiece. Digitally remastered and restored, it is available on DVD today.
Title: GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES
Running Time: 89 min.
Age Rating: TV PG
Language: English & Japanese with English Subtitles
CAT: SF-GFF001
UPC: 814131012623
Published by: Sentai Filmworks
Distributed by: Section23 Films
Street Date: 3/06/2012
Format: DVD
SRP: $19.98
SYNOPSIS: As
the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs
falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in
millions of smaller tragedies. This is the story of Seita and his
younger sister Setsuko, two children born at the wrong time, in the
wrong place, and now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to
shelter them, but simply the resources. Forced to fend for themselves
in the aftermath of fires that swept entire cities from the face of the
earth, their doomed struggle is both a tribute to the human spirit and
the stuff of nightmares. Beautiful, yet at times brutal and horrifying.
Based on the retellings of survivor Nosaka Akiyuki and directed by Iaso
Takahata (co-founder, with Hayao Miyazaki, of Japan's legendary Studio
Ghibli,) GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES has been universally hailed as an
artistic and emotional tour de force.
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