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JapaneseTitle: Hotaru no haka (1988)
There may well be Spoilers here if you haven't seen the movie.
To say this was a moving story is an understatement.
Other movie sites will give you a much better synopsis but basically this is the story of a teenage Japanese boy and his younger sister attempting to survive the last days of the second world war, as the bombs fall and a nation that could not lose does just that.
An interesting and moving story for many reasons but one thing I found personally interesting was that it instantly reminded me of FF7 (and to a lesser extent Shenmue2, others may have better examples but their the ones I'm familiar with...) theres an aspect of the cinematography and an abruptness of the dialogue that I'd previously considered a result of the medium but now I'm wondering if it isn't indicative of Asian (or is it Japanese) story telling.
Either way its left me feeling that in western cinema there is a much bigger focus on the fairy tale story/ending (as in happily ever after?) than is present in asian cinema, although I am sure there's plenty of exceptions to both.
There are soo many more reasons to check out this movie other than my semi-illiterate ramblings... so i'm keen to know what people thought of this...
There may well be Spoilers here if you haven't seen the movie.
To say this was a moving story is an understatement.
Other movie sites will give you a much better synopsis but basically this is the story of a teenage Japanese boy and his younger sister attempting to survive the last days of the second world war, as the bombs fall and a nation that could not lose does just that.
An interesting and moving story for many reasons but one thing I found personally interesting was that it instantly reminded me of FF7 (and to a lesser extent Shenmue2, others may have better examples but their the ones I'm familiar with...) theres an aspect of the cinematography and an abruptness of the dialogue that I'd previously considered a result of the medium but now I'm wondering if it isn't indicative of Asian (or is it Japanese) story telling.
Either way its left me feeling that in western cinema there is a much bigger focus on the fairy tale story/ending (as in happily ever after?) than is present in asian cinema, although I am sure there's plenty of exceptions to both.
There are soo many more reasons to check out this movie other than my semi-illiterate ramblings... so i'm keen to know what people thought of this...
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