Barefoot Gen (1976 film)

Barefoot Gen
DVD cover
Japanese はだしのゲン
Hepburn Hadashi no Gen
Directed by Tengo Yamada
Produced by Tengo Yamada
Written by Keiji Nakazawa
Based on Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
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
Music by Takeshi Shibuya
Cinematography Sun Min An
Distributed by Tengo Yamada
Release date
  • January 24, 1976 (1976-01-24)
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.

Cast

  • Kenta Sato as "Gen Nakaoka", Barefoot Gen, the protagonist of the story.
  • Rentarō Mikuni as "Daikichi Nakaoka", Gen's father.
  • Sachiko Hodari as "Kimie Nakaoka", Gen's mother.
  • Yotaro Komatsu as "Koji Nakaoka", Gen's eldest brother.
  • Chizuko Iwahara as "Eiko Nakaoka", Gen's elder sister.
  • Yukiya Minoshima as "Akira Nakaoka", Gen's elder brother.
  • Hirokazu Ishimatsu as "Shinji Nakaoka", Gen's younger brother.
  • Fumi Soganoya as "Denjiro Samejima"
  • Jun Shimada as "Boku-san"
  • Shinhei Sakamoto as teacher "Kishi"
  • Yuko Oseki as teacher "Osato"
  • Sakae Umezu as teacher "Hirose"
  • Akira Oizumi as teacher "Numata"
  • Shinji Maki as "Horikawa"

Awards

See also


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