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Just prior to Seita's death in September 1945, someone informed Hisako and Natsu that he was still alive, though with no sign of his sister Setsuko and living near the central railway station in Kobe. Hisako and Natsu go to the station in hope of finding Seita, but cannot.
May 25, 2022 · Seita and Setsuko's final peace doesn't negate the unjustness of their deaths. Instead, it somehow reinforces the feeling that what happened to them was fundamentally unfair.
Sep 26, 2024 · Seita & Setsuko Were Both Malnourished. The opening scene of Grave of the Fireflies shows Seita and several other boys around his age dying at the train station where they were begging for food. Given the circumstances, it's pretty clear they died of starvation and malnutrition.
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Jun 19, 2020 · A janitor passes by and checks for the boy’s belongings. The man eventually finds an old candy tin, but decides to throw it away. Meanwhile, the spirit of a young girl (Setsuko) appears from the candy tin. Seita and Setsuko reunite and the siblings board on a train.
The seemingly innocuous container is discarded in a nearby field, releasing his spirit which rises up and reunites with the ghost of his four-year-old sister Setsuko.
Military children of an Imperial Japanese Navy captain, Seita and his sister Setsuko, survive, but their mother is severely injured and later dies. Seita conceals their mother's death from Setsuko to keep her happy.
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Jan 14, 2019 · The fireflies in the movie represent Setsuko, Seita and the other children that died at a young age. The fireflies are also symbolic of the human soul and foreshadowed the siblings' death after the scene with Setsuko burying it while asking why the fireflies and her mother had to die.
