ガラスのうさぎ/ Glass Rabbit

Saturday, 6th March 2010

Starting 15:00 at FINAS


Glass Rabbit / ガラスのうさぎ

Directed by SHIBUICHI Setsuko (四分一　節子), 2005, 86min, Colour Animation


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SHIBUICHI Setsuko
KOIDE Kazumi
SUENAGA Mitsuyo
TAKAGI Toshiko
OKAZAKI Hideo
KOBAYASHI Shichiro
OSHIMA Michiru
KATSURA Sozaburo
DEZAKI Satoshi

Cast
EI Toshiko:
MOGAMI Rina
最上　利奈
Takeo, her father:
HARA Yasunori
原　康義
Hide, her mother:
TAKESHITA Keiko
竹下　景子
Tsuneo, her eldest brother:
KAMIYA Hiroshi
神谷　浩史

Yukio, her elder brother:
FUKUYAMA Jun
福山　潤
Nobuko, her younger sister:
OKA Tamaki
岡　珠希
Mitsuko, her youngest sister:
KAWADA Taeko
川田　妙子

SYNOPSIS:

Toshiko is living with her family in a downtown area of Tokyo. Her father along with the help of her two brothers, run a glass-making factory. Her father makes a glass rabbit ornament which Toshiko treasures. Toshiko’s two brothers, Tsuneo and Yukio enlist in the army and Toshiko’s mother suffers a heart attack shortly afterwards. Toshiko also learns that Tsuneo was adopted into the family and is actually her cousin. Under the World War II, conditions in Tokyo begin to worsen as food, clothing and other materials became less available. Toshiko and her two younger sisters are evacuated to the countryside where Toshiko makes many friends. Her two younger sisters miss their mother and run back to Tokyo. But in the night of March 10th, 1945 Toshiko loses her mother and younger sisters when they are killed in the air raid bombing of Tokyo. Toshiko’s father survives and they make plans to open a new factory outside of Tokyo. All that is left of their home is a safe and the glass rabbit that was partially melted in the fires. As they are preparing to board the train, Toshiko’s father is killed by US airplanes when they attack the train station. Toshiko is left on her own with no family. She loses the hope to live but realize that if she were to die there would be no one to remember her family. She preserves to live for them.

Source from Japanese Foundation Kuala Lumpur