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Nakazawa's alter ego, Gen Nakaoka is on his way to school when the bomb detonates. He makes his way back to his home through hellish scenes of ruined buildings, corpses, and hideously mutilated survivors. Although his family is still alive, Gen and his pregnant mother are unable to free his father, sister, and brother from the rubble of their house and must leave them to burn to death. His mother goes into labor during their flight and his new sister is born amid the devastation. Holding the infant, Gen tells her to remember the horrors, so that they never occur again.
Barefoot Gen is completely unlike the musical fairy tales and slapstick comedies Americans associate with animation, but its powerful antiwar message has won admiration around the world. Barefoot Gen II follows the character through the early days of the postwar era. --Charles Solomon
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Mori Masaki |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 13 June, 1992 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Image Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Anime / Japanimation, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 014381464924 |
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Customer Reviews of Barefoot Gen
Painful Masterpiece A powerful and haunting movie showing animation can go where other artforms fear to tread.
an educational anime
I expected to see some deamons, naked girls, blood, hear profanity but Barefoot Gen has none of those things. It deals with a 6 year old kid back in World War 2 when a big bomb hit japan killing most of his family. Gen was on his way back from school one day and saw ruining building from the blast. That's about all I will give away.
Will make you Cry
I watched this movie in a class one day and it almost made me cry. A story about the bombing of Hiroshima, a boy escapes the effect of an etomic bomb by a stroke of luck! Watching his father, sister and brothe die in their burning house, he and his pregnant mother a forced to live on the streets. Things don't go to plan when his mother goes into labor with no docters around and is forced to give birth by themselves. Dying of poor health, he and his new friends are forced to get a job to buy milk but something goes horribly wrong. This movie is moving and touching and I highly reccomend it to those that don't mind a few graphics and violence. Five stars all the way!