The Glass Rabbit

The Glass Rabbit (2005)

ガラスのうさぎ

War took everything... except her courage.

The period of late World War II, Toshiko was living in downtown Tokyo with her family. Japan was more towards losing the War at the time and people were suffering with lack of materials. On March 10th 1945, she lost her mother and two younger sisters by the bombing in Tokyo. She picked up "Glass Rabbit", which shape was changed by the fire, out of the wreck one day and she experienced the terror of the War. Moreover when she had to evacuate to the suburbs, her father was killed by US army on the way at the station. Now that she became all alone, she felt so lonely and despaired that she almost found no meaning to be alive. But despite of her loneliness and sorrow, she aroused herself, thinking about all her family who were gone. "I must survive for my family.... Otherwise, who will be visiting their grave." This is the story of one girl, which should not be forgotten.

Date of release
2005-05-13
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Animation, History, War
Director
Setsuko Shibuichi

Casting

Interesting facts

Garasu no Usagi is a Japanese autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi(June 19, 1932 - August 8, 2026), who lost her sister and mother in the Great Tokyo Air Raid and saw her father killed by P-51 Mustang before her eyes at Ninomiya Station when she was 13 years old. As of 2018, the original novel has sold more than 2.4 million copies in Japan. It was translated into German, Spanish, Hungarian and other languages. It was adapted into a live-action film in 1979, a television drama series in 1980 and an anime film in 2005.

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