Hi no Ame ga Furu

ヒノアメガフル

Aired: 1988

A feature anime film based on testimonial records of the Fukuoka air raids. Produced by Mushi Production, it depicts a Kyushu city engulfed overnight by a rain of incendiary bombs and the terror, loss and small remaining moments of families and friends, rendered with a quiet brush and a firm documentary spirit. Drawing on testimony from the war-experienced generation, the film conveys the brutality of air raids in language and images that reach children, posing the weight of peace to postwar audiences, and it was widely used in municipal and educational settings as a representative anti-war animation.