The war movie is critically acclaimed and was released in 1988.

Netflix viewers will be pleased to learn that a little-known war movie that is also critically acclaimed is now streaming on the platform.

Grave of the Fireflies is a 1988 Japanese animated war film written and directed by Isao Takahata and animated by Studio Ghibli,. It is based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, and is set in the city of Kobe, Japan, during the final months of the Pacific War. Production of Grave of the Fireflies began after Nosaka became interested in an animated adaptation of his book. Grave of the Flies stars Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara and Akemi Yamaguchi. The film's synopsis reads: "A devastating meditation on the human cos

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