“Fireflies in the Garden” is the cinematic equivalent of going out to dinner with your friend’s family and then having to watch them all fight like cats and dogs the whole time: it’s got to be worse for the people going through it, but you sure as hell have no interest in ...
But that deal, signed in the late 1990s, has always excluded one critical piece of the Studio Ghibli canon:Grave of the Fireflies, a film whose rights have remained apart from the others. One upside to that anomaly:Graveis coming to Blu-ray Disc in the US next week, well ahead of most...
On the final days of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his four-year-old sister Setsuko are orphaned after their mother is killed during an air-raid by American forces in Kobe, Japan. After having a falling-out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surv...