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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Hotaru no haka can be found here.
The screenplay of Hotaru no haka [English: Grave of the Fireflies] was written by Japanese animated film director Isao Takahata, who also directed the movie. He based the story on a semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Japanese novelist Akiyuki Nôsaka, who lost his sister from malnutrition in 1945 wartime Japan.
Initially, fruit drops (a kind of hard candy) but, later, his sister's ashes.
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