A richly affecting piece of Japanese animation, BAREFOOT GEN adapts a highly regarded graphic novel based on the author's experiences as a boy in Hiroshima, before, during, and after the city's atomic bombing.
On August 6th, 1945, a U.S. plane drops a single atomic bomb and devastates the city of Hiroshima. Gen, a ten-year-old boy, survives the blast, as does his pregnant mother, Kimie, but he loses his father, older sister, and younger brother. Kimie soon gives birth to a little girl, but her breast
milk dries up and the baby is threatened with starvation. Gen scours the city looking for food and milk and discovers some rice in a bombed-out storehouse. During t...
Released:
1983
Rated:
NR
Length:
83 mins