Barefoot Gen (TV drama)

Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen)
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(s) Japanese
No. of episodes 2
Production
Producer(s) Jun Masumoto
Hisao Ogura
Running time 204 minutes
Release
Original network Fuji Television
Original release August 10 – August 11, 2007
External links
Website

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.

Plot

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".

Cast

  • Ren Kobayashi as "Gen Nakaoka", the main protagonist.
  • Kiichi Nakai as "Daikichi Nakaoka", Gen's father.
  • Yuriko Ishida as "Kimie Nakaoka", Gen's mother.
  • Akiyoshi Nakao as "Koji Nakaoka", Gen's elder brother.
  • Asuka Ono as "Eiko Nakaoka", Gen's elder sister.
  • Yuki Imai as "Shinji Nakaoka", Gen's younger brother.
  • TBA as "Tomoko Nakaoda", Gen's baby sister.
  • Kenichi Yajima as a chief police officer.
  • Hiroko Nakajima as "Ume".
  • Isamu Ichikawa as a police officer "Hamada".
  • Kanako Fukaura as "Hanako Yoshida".
  • Takeshi Masu as commander "Saeki".
  • Shinobu Tsuruta as principal "Tanaka".
  • Hiroshi Okouchi as teacher "Numata".
  • Sakura as "Kikuyo"
  • Susumu Kobayashi as a doctor.
  • Takao Toji as a master of the house.
  • Yoji Tanaka as a military police.
  • Hiroki Narimiya as "Seiji Yoshida".
  • Ryo as "Kiyoko Hayashi".
  • Takehiro Murata as "Shinsuke Takura".
  • Mitsuru Hirata as "doctor "Yabe".
  • B-saku Sato as "Eizo Yoshida".
  • Tokie Hidari as "Setsu Hayashi".
  • Tetta Sugimoto as "Kosaku"
  • Masanobu Katsumura as Japanese-Korean "Park".
  • Takehiko Ono as "Denjiro Samejima"
  • Taro Yamashita as "Tatsuo Hayasi"
  • Jyura Matsuura as "Takeko Hayashi"
  • Gaku Yamamoto as elder "Gen Nakaoka" as narrator

Locations

Theme song

DVD and soundtrack

  • DVD and soundtrack released on January 25, 2008, from Pony Canyon.

See also

References

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