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How many minutes did you cry?


How many minutes did you cry? &
Which scene or dialog play ignited out your tears?
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almost for the last 15 mins
she says "Thank you"(after eating a small piece of melon)

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ohh god wat a heart-wrenching story this one is....i couldnt even cry infront of my mom,dad and sis(as they think that im a tough guy) but damn i felt like crying my heart out.
i felt like bursting into tears when seito told "and she never woke up again".damn i felt like why were i born??to see this ugly truth about these hopeless orphaned kids during ww2.this movie really depressed me a lot but this is a gem of a film..evry1 frm children to adult see this film

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As the father of a 3 year old daughter, the scene where the little girl died hit me unexpectedly hard. She was so sweet and caring, but so vulnerable and small, just like my own daughter. I can't imagine my own daughter being exposed to the brutal world of war.

I didn't cry immediately, but I had to switch the movie off because it was too painful to watch anymore. In fact, I still need to watch the last 5 minutes of the movie (I'll do this tonight). In fact, I didn't get weepy eyed until just now, writing this post!

Anyone who supports war needs to be reminded about how much innocent people suffer. War always causes far more problems than it solves. This story needed to be told.

YR

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Saddest part by far is when the sister is burying the fireflies and reveals that she knows that mom is in the grave. Then you see the brother cry for the first time.

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Only cruel people support war. There are not many truly cruel people in the world, yet their destruction is boundless. Now, I hope you understand the distinction between supporting war and supporting involvement in war purely as a means to reduce the potentiality for future wars (or obviously to end the war). This is the position the united states has generally taken. However, it is very difficult to do so as war exists everywhere whether violent physically or verbally.

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"There are not many truly cruel people in the world, yet their destruction is boundless."

Very true.

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not necessarily cruel...ignorant definitely...

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I don't have children but I regardless to pick any kid up and hold them so tightly when I watched this film. I also teared up reading your post. To me children are the most beautiful and wonderful thing we have in this life of ours.

The most vulnerable are the ones that suffer the most in war. The children, the physically and/or mentally diabled, the sick, the old.

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How many MINUTES? I think it took me a good 3 WEEKS to recover from this movie. This was so sad that I would recommend someone watch "Days of Wine and Roses" with Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick immediately following "Grave of the Fireflies" in order to CHEER UP.......

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i watched this film completely alone in a dark room, and thank god for it! i cried from the line "why do fireflies have to die so soon?" i first heard of this film from a top 10 most depressing films ever feature in Empire, and was just like "how sad can it be?" now i know! i also cry of happiness at the beginning, when the brother and sister come back as ghosts, and are reunited, its just such a beautiful moment, and much nicer the second time round (yes i forced myself to watch this a second time round, because my girlfriend wanted to see it, and, unsurprisingly, she was crying all the way through)

you know there is a problem when games are smarter than movies

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i prefer watching movies alone(if not in a cinema hall) with a headphone on, no distractions.
thnx to that i didnt have to hold my tears, i cried like a baby.

and about the question "how many minutes i cried??". i'll have to watch that again to calculate, and i dont have the courage to do so.period

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As someone who lost a close sibling, I have to admit that I was strongly affected by the movie. That's all I'm gonna say..

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I lost my little brother 13 years ago and this movie is really heartbreaking for people like me, so that i can't remember for how long i cried

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I watched this movie for the same reason. I had read many times it was one of the saddest movies ever. F-for some reason I didn't cry. I felt lumpy-throated when she died and he was covering the basket to cremate, and when they showed flashbacks of how she would play around by herself when he'd leave. But, I don't know, I've been way more wrecked by many other movies that this. Maybe I had just braced myself enough already for this expecting this to induce suicide or something. I'm not saying it was lame of evoked no feeling to me...it was obviously a jaded and very sad movie. But maybe MAYBE the hype spoiled it some for me. Also... I generally don't have anything against cartoons or animated films. Ringing Bell...I sobbed through that entire movie when I rewatched as an adult (also was really depressed when I watched it so it struck all these major chords of what I was going through at the time lol). But with this, for some reason I felt like they were trying too hard to make the girl cutesy -- I watched the English dub so maybe that's part of it. But in this case, I feel if it was a live action film, I would have been more affected...less forced, more relatable.

But anyway, I totally agree about the beginning scene being more meaningful seeing it a second time. As soon as it ended when I watched it just now, I immediately skipped back to re-watch that beginning scene now that I knew the meaning/story behind it. To me it was just sadder actually, also made me throat-lump-y.

The mom was pretty disturbing too (after she was burned). And the music, especially for the title credits, was pretty sad.

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yeah, i didn't cry either... actually I did get a bit teary eyed when seiko started crying the first time, and also when he was burning the basket thingie with the girl in it. For all the hype, I was expecting I would cry like a baby, since I even cry while watching the little mermaid for some reason...

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How many minutes? The first time i watch it... when I realized the little girl was diying of hunger...
The 2nd and last time: THE ENTIRE MOVIE D_D

This was first movie that I cryed EVER. And I never going to watch it again >.< But i recomended to everybody :D

I'm form Dominican Republic ^_^

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Basically yeah.

Also the little montage of her playing and fading out of the screen those times. Then basically every time she showed up at all.

It's the only time I've ever wept during a movie so far in my life.

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I pretty much cried throughout the entire movie starting when the mother had just died.

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I sobbed like a baby when I first saw the movie. The part where she's starving and makes rice balls out of mud was the saddest for me.

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I have never cried during any movie, however sad or depressing. This was the first movie (and it happens to be an animation), I cried and probably cried for maybe 85 minutes out of the 90 minutes.

Every little scene in the movie had so much to express- the amount of pain the kids went through was unbearable. What bothers me still is that, this, is still the reality for many kids around the world, not due to war but due to poverty and under-development.

However sad, I'm glad I saw it. Its a beautiful wonderful movie.

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I gave this movie to my brother who has a daughter, I think I made a bad mistake, it was too emotional for him to see children die of hunger and starvation, he didn't watch it beacuse of his daughter. Powerful, very moving peace of Animation.

I did cry when Sato got beaten up and his sister is waiting outside the police station and then they hug each other, because they have no one else only each other, absolutely gut-wrenching to see this.


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