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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792898580
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0792898583
Label: Orion / MGM
Languages: EnglishDubbed
Manufacturer: Orion / MGM
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Orion / MGM
Release Date: January 19, 1999
Running Time: 83 minutes
Studio: Orion / MGM
Theatrical Release Date: June 13, 1992
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Editorial Review:
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Keiji Nakazawa attracted widespread attention in 1973, when he published the first installment of his semiautobiographical manga (comics), Barefoot Gen. Nakazawa was 6 years old in August 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Most of his family was killed in the blast, and the artist survived through sheer luck. Nakazawa's continuing story now fills seven volumes (nearly 2,000 pages). In addition to two animated features (also written by Nakazawa), three live-action films and an opera have been based on Gen.
Nakazawa's alter ego, Gen Nakaoka is on his way to school when the bomb detonates. He makes his way back to his home through hellish scenes of ruined buildings, corpses, and hideously mutilated survivors. Although his family is still alive, Gen and his pregnant mother are unable to free his father, sister, and brother from the rubble of their house and must leave them to burn to death. His mother goes into labor during their flight and his new sister is born amid the devastation. Holding the infant, Gen tells her to remember the horrors, so that they never occur again.
Barefoot Gen is completely unlike the musical fairy tales and slapstick comedies Americans associate with animation, but its powerful antiwar message has won admiration around the world. Barefoot Gen II follows the character through the early days of the postwar era. --Charles Solomon
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Barefoot Gen is at the same time a compelling visual of the horrors of war and a cheesy soap opera; a devastating tale of courage and survival and a badly written one dimensional flick. Gen can be seen as the polar opposite of the epic masterpiece Grave of the Fireflies (2-Disc Collector's Edition), for although they deal with similar subjects the way they go about doing it are completely different in both style and quality. Where Fireflies focuses on the small picture, one brother trying to care ... Read More
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This has got to be one of the saddest animes I've ever watched. Told by a young boy during the bombing of Hiroshima, it follows his life before and after the terrible tragedy. It really shows what the Japanese went through during the aftermath without focusing on hatred towards America. There are shockingly accurate accounts of how the people died and suffered physically and emotionally, leaving nothing to the imagination. Highly recommended - a must-see!
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i have read all four volumes of "barefoot gen",and i must say, i was moved
to tears.in my own life i have experienced war(vietnam 4/67-1068)and seen with my own eyes the havoc it can wreck on human beings.i was changed by the war in vietnam...i was set on the path to healing by "barefoot gen".i
highly reccomend the books as opposed to the anime.i found the dvd version
to be not nearly as hard hitting.as much as i looked forward to seeing the
animated "barefoot gen",i was in ... Read More
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Excellent movie to show kids from middle school to high school. The anime is graphic but poignant. Gives the other sides view on a awesome event in history.
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very good movie based on keiji nakazawa'a experience of the A-bomb on hiroshima and he wrote this,I read three of the four graphic novels I didn't read the fourth until way after I saw the movie,I wondered why Koji and Akira weren't in the movie.I liked the characters Gen,shinji and ryuta
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