Grave of the Fireflies vs Sarah's Key
Grave of the Fireflies has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 7.3/10 for Sarah's Key). Grave of the Fireflies is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 1h 51m. Grave of the Fireflies is the older of the two (1988 against 2010). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Grave of the Fireflies
Sarah's Key| Grave of the Fireflies | Sarah's Key | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.5/10 | ★ 7.3/10 |
| Year | 1988 | 2010 |
| Length | 1h 29m | 1h 51m |
| Genres | Animation, Drama, War | Drama, War |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Isao Takahata | Gilles Paquet-Brenner |
| Main cast | Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi, Masayo Sakai | Aidan Quinn, Michel Duchaussoy, Niels Arestrup, Arben Bajraktaraj, Frédéric Pierrot |
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.
Sarah's Key
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the…
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