Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)

Original title

はだしのゲン２

Directed by

Toshio Hirata

Genre

drama film, anti-war film, drama anime and manga, coming-of-age film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

M

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 72 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In post-Hiroshima Japan, brothers Gen and Ryuta join a gang of orphaned scavengers. They struggle to find food and medicine to save their mother from radiation sickness caused by the atomic bombing.

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What happens

Barefoot Gen 2 (はだしのゲン2, Hadashi no Gen 2) is a 1986 Japanese adult animated drama film and the sequel to the 1983 animated war film Barefoot Gen, loosely based on the Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. Directed by Toshio Hirata, the film stars Issei Miyazaki, Masaki Kōda, Yoshie Shimamura, and Taeko Nakanishi, who reprise their roles from the first film, while Kei Nakamura and Takami Aoyama join the cast. In the film, Gen and Ryuta Nakaoka join a gang of orphan scavengers and attempt to save their mother Kimie from radiation sickness, a consequence of her survival of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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