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In the final days of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his four-year-old sister Setsuko lose their mother in an American air raid on Kobe, Japan. After a falling-out with the aunt who took them in, the siblings move into an abandoned bomb shelter, where — with no surviving relatives and their emergency funds and rations depleted — they must struggle to survive their own hardships and those of a country on the losing end of the war.

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In the closing days of the Second World War, American air raids on Kobe kill the mother of 14-year-old Seita and his four-year-old sister Setsuko. After a falling-out with their aunt, the orphaned siblings move into a disused bomb shelter, but with their savings and food exhausted and no relatives left, they face a desperate struggle to stay alive in a country itself being ground down by defeat.