“Glass Rabbit: Tokyo Air Raid” A highly sought-after, premium DVD. [Movie Overview] Japanese Title: Glass Rabbit: Tokyo Air Raid Director: Yusuke Tachibana Runtime: 105 minutes In 1944, as Japan's defeat loomed, essential goods were rationed, students were conscripted as student soldiers, adult men were mobilized to munitions factories, and female students aged 14 and older were drafted into the Women's Volunteer Corps. At the Kawai Glass Factory in Ryogoku, Tokyo, Father Fusao was making the last glass rabbit figurine. The factory was scheduled to become a designated military factory. Minako, a sixth-grade elementary school student, had two older brothers who had already volunteered as kamikaze pilots. Her eldest brother, Akio, came to say goodbye to his family before departing for the war, but a quarrel with his sickly mother led to a sad farewell. Two days later, Minako was the only one who saw her second brother, Kazuo, off. Soon, air raids intensified, and Minako evacuated to Ninomiya with her younger sisters, Tomoko and Fumiko, but the young sisters, missing their mother, returned to Tokyo. Minako, left alone, received news that her mother and sisters were missing after the Tokyo air raid on March 10th. She and her father dug through the ruins of the factory, but no bodies were found, only a tragically melted glass rabbit. On August 5th, as Minako and her father were waiting for a train to Niigata at Ninomiya Station, they were suddenly attacked by a U.S. military aircraft, and her father was killed in front of her eyes. Left alone, Minako carried her father's body and completed the burial procedures. Overwhelmed with grief, Minako walked into the night sea, but then thought, "If I die, who will mourn my father...?" She rose again from the dark waves. On August 15th, less than ten days after her father's death, Japan surrendered. Her second brother, Kazuo, returned home. "When big brother comes back, let's build a glass factory together, the three of us," Minako said, giving her brother the savings entrusted to her by her deceased parents. Soon, her eldest brother, Akio, also returned, but life was difficult in the chaos of defeat, and the wish to "build a glass factory, the three of us" could not be fulfilled. However, 12-year-old Minako buried the melted glass rabbit in her parents' grave and bravely walked into the devastated city. #PacificWar #GreaterEastAsiaWar #TokyoAirRaid #YukikoEbina #HiroyukiNagato #AikoNagayama #BakuOowada