
Barefoot Gen 2(1986)
Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.


“The bombing of Hiroshima as seen through the eyes of a young boy.”
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Issei Miyazaki
Gen Nakaoka (voice)
Masaki Kouda
Shinji Nakaoka (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)
Tatsuya Jo
Narrator (voice)

Junji Nishimura
Boku Pak (voice)
Barefoot Gen is a animation, drama, war, history film released in 1983 exploring themes of bomb, world war ii, hiroshima, japan, based on comic, based on manga, bombing. Directed by Mori Masaki, it stars Issei Miyazaki, Masaki Kouda, Seiko Nakano. 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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