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It
is post-war Japan, just weeks before the American occupation.
In the city of Kobe, a boy lies dying in a train station.
Beside his body lies a small candy container. A janitor, unsure
of its ashy contents, pitches it into the night. As fireflies
float softly around it, the ghostly images of the boy and
his little sister appear…
Flashback to a short time earlier: Orphaned and homeless
from a fire-bomb attack on their city, 14 year old Seita and
his 4 year old sister, Setsuko, set out to survive in the
face of a society that is no longer able to protect them.
Forced to live in an abandoned bomb shelter in the Japanese
countryside, they slowly comes to realize that they can never
escape the hardships of war, or even find enough food to survive.
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