Barefoot Gen
1976•1h 47m•
★5.0(3 ratings)
DramaWar
Overview
First live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.
Director
Tengo YamadaWriters
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First live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.
Shinji
The original title is "はだしのゲン" (JA).
The runtime is 107 minutes (1h 47m).
The film was directed by Tengo Yamada.
The screenplay was written by Tengo Yamada.
Cinematography was handled by An Sunmin.
This title is listed on IMDb as tt1319091.
Collection
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1983
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
1986
Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
2025
Nagasaki, 1945. Three nursing students, Tanaka Sumi, Ohno Atsuko, and Iwanaga Misao, return home when school is closed due to air raids, and spend some peaceful time with family and friends. However, at 11:02 AM on August 9th, the atomic bomb is dropped, and their daily lives are instantly shattered. The city is reduced to ruins, and despite their inexperience, the nursing students rush to provide medical care to the injured. Faced with the cruel reality that more lives must be buried than can be saved, the women continue to question the value and meaning of life.
2008
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.
1978
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.
2009
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival
2010
The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor.
1977
The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women.
1972
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
Mixed
3 votes
はだしのゲン
Released
日本語
Japan
