Barefoot Gen (1983)

Directed by

Mori Masaki

How it feels

In the summer of 1945, a young boy named Gen and his family struggle to survive in Hiroshima, facing severe food shortages and hardship. Their lives are shattered when the atomic bomb is dropped on the city.

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