On 15 July 2025, CBI Pictures announced on their social media that the Isao Takahata-directed Studio Ghibli film Grave of the Fireflies will be screened in Indonesia. According to the announcement post, the screenings will begin on 29 August 2025. The cinemas that will screen the film have not been announced yet.
Potret pilu kakak beradik yang harus bertaruh nyawa dan menghadapi kejamnya Perang Dunia II
Karya emosional dari sutradara Isao Takahata dan Studio Ghibli
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES tayang perdana di bioskop Indonesia mulai 29 Agustus https://t.co/smmvQJv78b pic.twitter.com/LkQVykhakm
— CBI pictures (@CBIpictures) July 15, 2025
Known in Japan as Hotaru no Haka, the 1988 film tells the story of Seita and his sister Setsuko, struggling to survive in the final months of the Second World War. The film adapts a short story by Akiyuki Nosaka and is said to have been inspired by Nosaka’s own personal experience in the war. First published in 1967 in the monthly literature magazine Oru Yomimono, Odise Books had published it in Indonesia together with a number of his other short stories as Grave of the Fireflies and Other Stories. The film is also available with an Indonesian dub on Netflix.
The Indonesian Anime Times
