Barefoot Gen

Barefoot Gen

7.5 / Rating 1983

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

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Barefoot Gen is a 1983 Japanese adult animated war drama film loosely based on the Japanese manga series of the same name by Keiji Nakazawa. Directed by Mori Masaki and starring Issei Miyazaki, Masaki Kōda and Tatsuya Jo, it depicts World War II in Japan from a child's point of view revolving around the events surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and the main character's firsthand experience of the bomb.

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