A Bag of Marbles vs Grave of the Fireflies
Grave of the Fireflies has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 7.8/10 for A Bag of Marbles). Grave of the Fireflies is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 1h 53m. Grave of the Fireflies is the older of the two (1988 against 2017). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Bag of Marbles
Grave of the Fireflies| A Bag of Marbles | Grave of the Fireflies | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 8.5/10 |
| Year | 2017 | 1988 |
| Length | 1h 53m | 1h 29m |
| Genres | Drama, War | Animation, Drama, War |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Christian Duguay | Isao Takahata |
| Main cast | Elsa Zylberstein, Christian Clavier, Bernard Campan, Émile Berling, César Domboy | Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi, Masayo Sakai |
Synopsis
A Bag of Marbles
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of…
Grave of the Fireflies
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
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