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Writer:
Keiji Nakazawa (writer)
Release Date:
13 June 1992 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Bombing Of Hiroshima As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Boy.
Plot:
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. full summary | add synopsis
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"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror."- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Issei Miyazaki | ... | Gen Nakaoka (voice) |
| Masaki Kôda | ... | Shinji Nakaoka / Ryuta Kondo (voice) |
| Seiko Nakano | ... | Eiko Nakaoka (voice) |
| Takao Inoue | ... | Daikichi Nakaoka (voice) |
| Yoshie Shimamura | ... | Kimie Nakaoka (voice) |
| Takeshi Aono | ... | Hidezo (voice) |
| Katsuji Mori | ... | Seiji Yoshida (voice) |
| Taeko Nakanishi | ... | Hana (voice) |
| Junji Nishimura | ... | Boku Pak (voice) |
| Kôichi Kitamura | ... | (voice) |
| Kôji Yada | ... | (voice) |
| Yasurô Tanaka | ... | (voice) |
| Ryôichi Tanaka | ... | (voice) |
| Masaharu Satô | ... | (voice) |
| Kyôko Tongû | ... | (voice) |
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Barefoot Gen (International: English title)
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83 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Chile:14 |
Australia:PG |
Canada:14A |
Finland:K-12 |
France:-12 |
India:A |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:12
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Featured in Hadashi no Gen 2 (1986)
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I first saw "Barefoot Gen" on an anime station 7 1/2 years ago, and I got around to seeing it again tonight. I have to tell you that the actual bombing of Hiroshima appeared so horrific in this film, that mere words cannot describe the unsettling images I viewed on screen.
Unlike, a lot of conventional films out there, I choose not to grade "Barefoot Gen" based on the usual standards of cinema, because in real life, there are no 3-act structures, appropriate dialogue, character motivations, plot logic, etc. You have to see this film on a purely visceral level, in order to truly understand the full magnitude of the blast that killed over 100,000 men, women, children, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and babies living in Hiroshima during the summer of 1945.
In terms of showing the brutality and devastation of a nuclear holocaust, this is as close to reality as you can get...