Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン, Hadashi no Gen) is a two-part Japanese television special based on the popular manga of the same name by Keiji Nakazawa.
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Based on | Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa |
Screenplay by | Ryoichi Kimiduka |
Directed by | Masaki Nishiura Shosuke Murakami |
Starring | Ren Kobayashi Kiichi Nakai Yuriko Ishida Akiyoshi Nakao Yuki Imai Kenichi Yajima Takeshi Masu Sakura Susumu Kobayashi Yoji Tanaka Hiroki Narimiya Ryo Mitsuru Hirata Kanako Fukaura |
Theme music composer | Naoki Sato |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 2 |
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Producers | Jun Masumoto Hisao Ogura |
Running time | 204 minutes |
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Original network | Fuji Television |
Original release | August 10 (2007-08-10) – August 11, 2007 (2007-08-11) |
It was during the end of the war in Hiroshima. People in Japan were facing food shortages, and air bombing day and night. But, the government and its military powers, still continued the hopeless situation, and called young people to send them to battlefields. However, people were received letters that those young people had been lost. At that time in Japan, Daikichi was working as a picture drawer of Japanese footwear Geta. With his wife Kimie, Daikichi worked hard to raise their four little children.
Koji, the eldest brother, was nice and kind to his family. Eiko, the eldest sister, was weak in health, but doing daily chores to help her family. Gen, the naughty but cheerful kid and also nice to his family. And the youngest boy Shinji was a pampered child. And Kimie was pregnant, so they were going to have a new family member. When it is time to harvest the wheat from the fields outside of town, the children look forward to making bread and noodles to eat. Daikichi always said to his children, "Grow up as strong as the wheat".
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