Barefoot Gen 2

About Barefoot Gen 2

Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.

Barefoot Gen 2 (1986) is an animation war film directed by Toshio Hirata. At 85 minutes long, it arrived in June 1986.

The film is filed under post war, radiation sickness, post-war chaos period, and hibakusha.

Issei Miyazaki stars as Gen Nakaoka (voice), Kei Nakamura as Masa Tadashi (voice), Masaki Kouda as Ryuuta (voice), and Kimi Aoyama as Katsuko (voice). The screenplay is by Hideo Takayashiki. It streams on Cineverse Amazon Channel in the United States.

Barefoot Gen, Black Rain, and In This Corner of the World make useful companions to Barefoot Gen 2, all filed under hiroshima bombing. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 80 votes.