What It’s About: Two children, brother and sister, struggle to survive in wartime Japan. Why Watch it Today?: The U.S. firebombed Tokyo at midnight, March 10th, 1945. Between 80,000 to 100,000 were killed—more than later died in Nagasaki (70,000 to 80,000), and more than half the number who died in Hiroshima (120,000 to 150,000). The […]
