Grave of the Fireflies vs Persian Lessons
Grave of the Fireflies has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 7.6/10 for Persian Lessons). Grave of the Fireflies is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 2h 7m. Grave of the Fireflies is the older of the two (1988 against 2020). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Grave of the Fireflies
Persian Lessons| Grave of the Fireflies | Persian Lessons | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.5/10 | ★ 7.6/10 |
| Year | 1988 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 29m | 2h 7m |
| Genres | Animation, Drama, War | Drama, War |
| Country | – | Russia |
| Director | Isao Takahata | Vadim Perelman |
| Main cast | Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi, Masayo Sakai | Alexander Beyer, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Antonin Chalon, Lola Bessis |
Synopsis
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.
Persian Lessons
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by…
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