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Barefoot Gen | |
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Kana | はだしのゲン |
Revised Hepburn | Hadashi no Gen |
Directed by | Tengo Yamada |
Written by | Keiji Nakazawa |
Based on | Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa |
Produced by | Tengo Yamada |
Starring | Rentarō Mikuni Sachiko Hodari Kenta Sato Hirokazu Ishimatsu Chizuko Iwahara Yotaro Komatsu Yukiya Minoshima Fumi Soganoya Jun Shimada Shinhei Sakamoto Yuko Oseki Sakae Umezu Akira Oizumi Shinji Maki |
Cinematography | Sun Min An |
Music by | Takeshi Shibuya |
Distributed by | Tengo Yamada |
Release date |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン, Hadashi no Gen) is a 1976 Japanese war drama film, directed by Tengo Yamada based on the Japanese manga series of the same name. The film is set in 1945 and tells the story of the six-year-old boy Gen Nakaoka, living in Hiroshima around the time of the US atomic bombing of the city.