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A heart torn story, animation movie about a young boy and little sister in the wake of World War II. The plot of the movie is Wonderful tear-jerker based on semi autobiographic novel by Nosaka Akiyuki.
In the final months of World War 2, the teenage boy Seita and his four-year-old sister Setsuko lose their home and their mother during an air raid on their home town. They start to live at their aunt’s, but Seita refuses to do “productive work” as he wants to devote all of his strength to making the war bearable for his sister. After a quarrel with their relatives, the children move out to live on their own. But caring for the two of them proves too much for a boy of only fourteen years. A heart torn story of what the war can brought to human beings, specially little orphan kids, one can't stop the tears rolling down the cheeks while watching the movie and feeling the pain, anguish and suffering of the symbolic two kids, finally finding solace in the arms of death being starved and no one in the cruel world going to bail them out.
