Grave of the Fireflies. Poster of the 1988 movie and cover of the 1967 book
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Grave of the Fireflies
Akiyuki Nosaka, 1967
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Isao Takahata, 1988

On 21 September 1945, shortly after the end of World War II, a teenage boy, Seita, dies of starvation in a Kobe train station. Seita retrieves supplies he buried before the bombing and gives everything to his aunt, save for a tin of Sakuma drops.