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Grave of the Fireflies (1988) poster
1988
global pct
94.6

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Grave of the Fireflies

Scored from 734 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

94.6%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
94.5%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
99.8%
AI-adjusted percentile
734 calibrated reviewers

Summary

During the final months of World War II in Japan, two siblings, Seita and Setsuko, struggle to survive in the aftermath of a devastating firebombing of Tokyo. Orphaned and cast out from their extended family, they face starvation, homelessness, and despair as they attempt to build a new life together amidst the ruins of wartime Japan.

Grave of the Fireflies is a 1988 animation, drama and war film directed by Isao Takahata. The runtime is 96 minutes. Its listed language is Japanese. It was made in Japan.

734 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 831 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 4,591 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.

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Is Grave of the Fireflies (1988) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers
734

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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