Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) (1988)

I watched this movie with my mother when I was in the middle school. I remember that we shed tears and stayed still without words for while after the ending. That day, I could hardly sleep and left the lights on in my room, then I thought how lucky I was living this day of time and not my grandparents' generation. At the same time, the thoughts that somewhere else in the world were having wars and terror like in the movie horrified me.

I could not grasp that fact that the world I live is not much better than the time depicts in the movie. Sadly, wars are still fighting against us and every children needs to be understood this painful fact; this movie can be a shocking reminder of our reality.
 
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