Grave of the Fireflies

再見螢火蟲(火垂るの墓)

Setsuko 和 Seita 是生活在戰時日本的兄妹。在他們的母親在空襲中喪生後，他們在親戚那裡找到了一個臨時住所。在與他們的姑媽吵架後，他們離開了這座城市，在一個廢棄的避難所里安家。雖然他們的軍人父親的命運不明，但兩人必須相互依賴，以某種方式維持頭上的屋頂和肚子裡的食物。當一切都供不應求時，他們逐漸餓死，唯一的消遣就是螢火蟲的光

Setsuko and Seita are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their soldier father’s destiny is unknown, the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. When everything is in short supply, they gradually succumb to hunger and their only entertainment is the light of the fireflies.

昭和20年（1945年）9月21日深夜，神戶市三之宮站，14歲衣衫襤褸的清太被清潔員工發現坐在柱旁一角餓斃，而清太赤色的靈魂在遠處目視着；員工在其身上尋找有否值錢之物，然而發現身旁有個水果糖鐵罐，覺得沒用便使勁拋到旁邊草叢，當水果糖鐵罐裏面的節子骨灰撒出後，在螢火蟲之光的引領下，節子的靈魂現身，清太撿起草叢中的水果糖罐，故事亦由此開始，兄妹兩人登上了列車，遙望着遠處城市在戰火映下的紅光，引領我們回到幾個月前......

時值第二次世界大戰末，當海軍軍官的父親於1944年末再被徵召入伍後。由於為軍人家庭，家境原本十分富裕；但也因為這個緣故，開始改變清太家的命運。當1945年6月5日盟軍反攻日本，以B-29轟炸機於神戶連番轟炸後，清太家也不能倖免，患有心臟病的母親走避不及被嚴重炸傷至死，遺下一隻玉戒，幾套和服和近7000圓的銀行存款。

此後清太兄妹倆便投靠西宮親戚家，阿姨因清太一家身為海軍家庭給與厚待，後因戰時物資短缺、配給不定，只好被迫把清太母親的和服和玉戒換作米糧，將和服視之如母之回憶的節子，在想得知後，嚎啕大哭，清太只得按捺著節子與自己的悲傷，寄人籬下也無可奈何。門外的清太靈魂亦不忍聽到並回想過去櫻光飄下的家庭…。之後阿姨覺得清太在家游手好閒不為國家付出工作，對清太兄妹態度冷淡，雙方關係逐漸變得惡劣。清太與節子只好搬到近郊湖畔的防空洞開展「新生活」，掙扎求存。

一晚，清太找來小壺滿載螢火蟲與節子在洞內共享，螢光猶如軍艦燈光，清太哼着著名的《軍艦行進曲》……翌日螢火蟲死掉，節子為牠們立墓以念母親和螢火蟲，勾起清太的淚水。

隨着物資越見短缺，兩人不願回頭依靠親戚，故開始做起偷竊農地糧食的犯罪行為。兩個孩子在沒有大人的照顧下，又生活在防空洞的環境髒亂，節子開始出現營養不良與長滿濕疹等症狀，日漸消瘦並多次暈倒在外，清太乞求施捨無效仍繼續到農地偷竊以果腹，但有一次晚間偷竊未果被打至傷勢嚴重，故清太轉而冒轟炸之危險進村偷竊。在戰亂之中，現實所迫，反而讓人的人格和價值觀開始扭曲。 一天，清太到銀行取款時得知日本戰敗投降的消息，驚覺父親已陣亡；回到防空洞後，他發覺此時的節子已經虛弱到神智不清晰，躺着以石頭與彈珠為食，儘管清太趕緊把買來的西瓜切開握在節子手上，節子微弱的道「哥哥謝謝你」，清太才一回頭把東西放置好，卻沒想到，那是最後一眼看節子了。

清太回洞路上聽到鄰家唱盤響起《Home, sweet Home》一曲，再次墮入昔日與節子度過的純真生活。

清太把節子的骨灰放進身旁水果糖罐中，最後餓死在車站旁。

In Kobe, the spirits of young war orphans Seita and Setsuko Yokokawa reunite and board a ghostly train as they recount how they survived the Bombing of Kobe in World War II.

In June 1945, a group of American Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers destroy most of Kobe. Though Seita and Setsuko survive the bombing, their mother is severely injured and later dies. Seita conceals their mother’s death from Setsuko in an attempt to keep her happy, which she later learns of despite Seita’s efforts. Seita and Setsuko move in with a distant aunt, and Seita retrieves supplies he buried before the bombing and gives everything to his aunt, save for a tin of Sakuma drops. The aunt convinces Seita to sell his mother’s silk kimono for rice as rations shrink and the number of refugees in the house grows. Seita uses some of his mother’s money in the bank to buy supplies, but eventually, the aunt becomes resentful of the children, deeming them unworthy of earning her food.

Seita and Setsuko leave their aunt’s home after excessive insults, and they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. They release fireflies into the shelter for light. The next day, Setsuko is horrified to find that the insects have died. She buries them in a grave, asking why they and her mother had to die. As they run out of rice, Seita steals from farmers and loots homes during air raids, for which he is beaten and sent to the police by a farmer. The officer realizes Seita is stealing due to hunger and releases him. When Setsuko falls ill, a doctor explains that she is suffering from malnutrition. Desperate, Seita withdraws the last of the money in their mother’s bank account. After doing so, he becomes distraught when he learns that Japan has surrendered, and that his father, an Imperial Japanese Navy captain, is most likely dead, as most of Japan’s navy has been sunk. Seita returns to Setsuko with food, but finds her dying. She later dies as Seita finishes preparing the food. Seita cremates Setsuko’s body and her stuffed doll in a straw casket. He carries her ashes in the candy tin along with his father’s photograph.

That September, Seita dies of starvation at a Sannomiya train station surrounded by other malnourished people, as shown in medias res. A janitor is tasked with removing the bodies before the arrival of the Americans. The janitor sorts through Seita’s possessions and finds the candy tin, which he throws into a field. Setsuko’s ashes spread out, and her spirit springs from the tin and is joined by Seita’s spirit and a cloud of fireflies. They board a ghostly train and, throughout the journey, look back at the events leading to Seita’s death. Their spirits later arrive at their destination, healthy and happy. Surrounded by fireflies, they rest on a hilltop bench overlooking present-day Kobe.

1988

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1.85:1

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Japan

1988-04-16

16:9

2

4

Snap Case

~$14.01

2026-03-19

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