Barefoot Gen (anime)

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Barefoot Gen

DVD cover
Kana はだしのゲン
Rōmaji Hadashi no Gen
Directed by Mori Masaki
Produced by Keiji Nakazawa
Written by Keiji Nakazawa
Starring Issei Miyazaki
Masaki Kōda
Junji Nishimura
Yoshie Shimamura
Katsuji Mori
Kōichi Kitamura
Seiko Nakano
Taeko Nakanishi
Takao Inoue
Music by Kentarō Haneda
Cinematography Kin'ichi Ishikawa
Editing by Harutoshi Ogata
Release date(s) July 21, 1983
Running time 85 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン Hadashi no Gen?) is a war drama anime based on the Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. Directed by Mori Masaki and released in 1983, it depicts World War II in Japan from a child's point of view revolving around the events surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and the main character's first hand experience of the bomb.

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[edit] English Version

In the English-dubbed version of the film, "Gen Nakaoka" is voiced by Catherine Battistone and "Kimie Nakaoka" is voiced by Barbara Goodson. The characters of "Shinji Nakaoka", "Eiko Nakaoka", and "Ryuta Kondo" are voiced by Wendee Lee. Additional voices were provided by Ardwight Chamberlain, Joyce Kurtz, Michael McConnohie, Iona Morris, Mike Reynolds, Brianne Siddall, Kirk Thornton and Dan Woren.

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[edit] DVD

  • DVD released on August 6, 2005, from Geneon.

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