Barefoot Gen (1976)

Original title

はだしのゲン

Directed by

Tengo Yamada

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a six-year-old boy named Gen Nakaoka in Hiroshima just before and after the atomic bombing. It shows the destruction and his struggle to survive in the aftermath.

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What happens

Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン, Hadashi no Gen) is a 1976 Japanese war drama film, directed by Tengo Yamada based on the Japanese manga series of the same name. The film is set in 1945 and tells the story of the six-year-old boy Gen Nakaoka, living in Hiroshima around the time of the US atomic bombing of the city. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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