Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	火垂るの墓
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Hotaru no Haka
Directed by	Isao Takahata
Screenplay by	Isao Takahata
Based on	"Grave of the Fireflies" by Akiyuki Nosaka
Produced by	Toru Hara
Starring	Tsutomu Tatsumi Ayano Shiraishi [ja] Yoshiko Shinohara [ja] Akemi Yamaguchi [ja]
Cinematography	Nobuo Koyama
Edited by	Takeshi Seyama
Music by	Michio Mamiya
Production companies	Studio Ghibli Shinchosha
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	16 April 1988 (1988-04-16)
Running time	89 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥1.7 billion (Japan)[2] $516,962 (US)[3]

Grave of the Fireflies (Japanese: 火垂るの墓, Hepburn: Hotaru no Haka) is a 1988 Japanese animated war drama film written and directed by Isao Takahata, and produced by Studio Ghibli. It is based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical short story Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka.

The film stars Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi [ja], Yoshiko Shinohara [ja] and Akemi Yamaguchi [ja]. Set in the city of Kobe, Japan, it tells the story of siblings and war orphans Seita and Setsuko, and their desperate struggle to survive during the final months of World War II. Universally acclaimed, Grave of the Fireflies has been ranked as one of the greatest war films of all time and is recognized as a major work of Japanese animation.^[4][5]