Barefoot Gen (TV series)
| Barefoot Gen | |
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| 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 | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 2 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Jun Masumoto Hisao Ogura |
| Running time | 204 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Fuji Television |
| Release | August 10 – August 11, 2007 |
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
- Hiroshima Film Commission
- Saga Pref Film Commission
- Ibaraki Film Commission
- Kagawa Film Commission
- Miroku no Sato in Fukuyama, Hiroshima
- Takeo, Joso, AP&PP Takahagi, Ishioka, Mitoyo
- Marugame Basara Map
- TV Shin-Hiroshima TSS TV Shin-Hiroshima
- Saga Television Station Saga TV
Theme song
- Sen no Kaze ni Natte (a thousand winds)
- Sing by Masafumi Akikawa
DVD and soundtrack
- DVD and soundtrack released on January 25, 2008, from Pony Canyon.
See also
- Barefoot Gen
- Barefoot Gen - PART1 (1976)
- Barefoot Gen - PART2 (1977)
- Barefoot Gen - PART3 (1980)
- Barefoot Gen anime - PART1 (1983)
- Barefoot Gen 2 anime - PART2 (1986)
- Keiji Nakazawa
