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Grave of the Fireflies (1988) staat nu in Nederland op Netflix.
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.
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Grave of the Fireflies' refusal to sentimentalize wartime suffering—its willingness to let children simply starve in real time—makes it unbearably honest in ways that render most war cinema seem dishonest by comparison.
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