JP. 十二歳の少女の体験を通して戦争を知らない子供たちに、戦争の悲惨さと恐ろしさを訴える。高木敏子が母が子に語る戦争体験として書いた同名の小説の映画化で脚本は「わが青春のとき」の立原りゅう、監督は「教室二〇五号」の橘祐典、撮影も同作の山本駿がそれぞれ担当。
EN. Garasu no Usagi (ガラスのうさぎ, The Glass Rabbit) is a Japanese autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, who lost her sister and mother in the Great Tokyo Air Raid and saw her father killed by P-51 Mustang before her eyes at Ninomiya Station when she was 13 years old. As of 2018, the original novel has sold more than 2.4 million copies in Japan. It was translated into German, Spanish, Hungarian and other languages. It was adapted into a live action film in 1979, a Japanese television drama series in 1980 and an anime film in 2005.
The live action film, titled Tokyo Air Raid Glass Rabbit (東京大空襲　ガラスのうさぎ), is directed by Yūten Tachibana and was released on July 14, 1979.
Director: Yuten Tachibana.
Cast: Yukiko Ebina, Hiroyuki Nagato, Aiko Nagayama, Baku Owada, Osamu Sakuda, Tomoe Hiro.
Japan, 1979.
Language: Japanese.
Download ガラスのうさぎ / Garasu no Usagi / The Glass Rabbit. 1979.