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==Plot==
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In March 1945, American bombers [[Bombing of Kobe|destroy]] most of [[Kobe]] during the waning days of the [[Pacific War]]. Children of an [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] captain, Seita and his sister Setsuko, survive, but their mother dies. Seita conceals their mother's death from Setsuko. The siblings move in with a distant aunt, and Seita retrieves supplies he buried before the bombing and gives everything to his aunt, save for a tin of [[Sakuma drops]], which he gives to Setsuko. The aunt convinces Seita to sell his mother's silk [[kimono]]s for rice, which devastates Setsuko.

As rations shrink, the aunt becomes resentful of the children as Seita does nothing to earn the food she prepares for them. At her suggestion, Seita withdraws some money from his mother's bank account to buy a charcoal stove and other supplies. Following an air raid, the siblings move into an abandoned bomb shelter. They capture [[Firefly|fireflies]] from the marshes and release them into the refuge for light. The following morning the fireflies have died. Setsuko buries them and reveals their aunt told her their mother died, then tearfully asks why the fireflies had to die so soon.

The situation becomes grim when they run out of rice and a friendly farmer insists that Seita swallow his pride and return to their aunt as they cannot survive alone. Seita steals crops from farms and breaks into homes during air raids. A farmer catches and beats him, but a police officer sympathizes with Seita as he is only stealing to feed Setsuko.

Setsuko falls ill, and a doctor explains she is suffering [[malnutrition]]. Seita withdraws the last of the money from their mother's bank account. He is distraught to learn that [[Surrender of Japan|Japan has surrendered]] and that his father is most likely dead, as most of Japan's naval fleet have been sunk. Seita returns to Setsuko with food and finds her hallucinating. She dies as Seita finishes preparing the food. Seita cremates Setsuko's body and her doll in a straw casket. He carries her ashes in the candy tin along with his father's photograph.

Seita dies of starvation a few weeks later at a [[Sannomiya]] train station surrounded by other malnourished people. A janitor, tasked with removing the bodies before the Americans' arrival, sorts through Seita's possessions. He finds the candy tin and throws it into a field. Setsuko's ashes spread out, and her spirit springs from the container and is joined by Seita's spirit and a cloud of fireflies. The two board a ghostly train and, throughout the journey, look back at the events leading to Seita's death as silent, passive observers.{{efn|Seita and Setsuko's observance is interspersed throughout the film as a [[frame story]].}} Their spirits arrive at their destination: a hilltop bench overlooking present-day Kobe, surrounded by fireflies, healthy and content.