[h3]Macabre Japanese candy product [/h3]Heidi MacDonald came across a truly strange food product, based on a movie about kids who starve to death. [blockquote] One of the finest animated movies ever made is the Japanese film [em]HOTARU NO HAKA - or GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES[/em], a horrifically beautiful movie about two Japanese children orphaned by the war who struggle for survival with no food in a society turned savage. Based on a true story, it is a struggle they do not win, as the opening scene reveals. Beautiful, lyrical, grim yet unsentimental — no one human can watch this film without weeping. At one point the starving children have a can of fruit drops that they desperately cling to. When they finish the candies, they fill the tin with rainwater and drink the juice. Sad. [/p]Well, it seems Glico made a commemorative tin full of delicious candy to tie in with this film.[br clear="all"][/p][/blockquote] [a href="vny!://www.comicon.com/thebeat/2006/06/more_trauma_food.html"]Link[/a]
