Barefoot Gen

About Barefoot Gen

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

Mori Masaki's Barefoot Gen is a 1983 animation history film. Its themes are bomb, bombing, children in wartime, and radiation sickness.

Issei Miyazaki stars as Gen Nakaoka (voice), Masaki Kouda as Shinji Nakaoka (voice), Seiko Nakano as Eiko Nakaoka (voice), and Takao Inoue as Daikichi Nakaoka (voice). Released in July 1983, it runs 83 minutes.

The screenplay is by Keiji Nakazawa. The story is adapted from a comic. In the United States it streams on RetroCrush Amazon Channel.

In This Corner of the World, Barefoot Gen 2, and Grave of the Fireflies make useful companions to Barefoot Gen, all filed under adult animation, world war ii, and based on manga. TMDB voters put it at 7.6 out of 10 across 273 votes.