Review: Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

This isn't really a review, as Grave of the Fireflies is a film so intensely sad that I find it hard to approach critically. Instead, I will note one particularly interesting piece of trivia: the director, Isao Takahata, has repeatedly denied that this film is an anti-war film. Nonetheless, the depiction of siblings struggling to survive whilst ostracised by society is painfully compelling,…