Barefoot Gen 2
1986 · Movie · TV-PG · 85 min · ★ 6.7 · 64% critics
Set three years after the Hiroshima bombing, this animated drama follows a teenager trying to survive in a shattered city while helping a group of orphaned children. As hunger, illness, and loss linger over daily life, the story focuses on endurance, rebuilding, and finding hope after catastrophe.
Based on Barefoot Gen
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Details
- Original title
- はだしのゲン２
- Years
- 1986
- Release date
- 1986-06-14
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- TV-PG
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Critic score
- 64/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (71 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a heartbreaking but ultimately hopeful survival drama about life after war, especially if In This Corner of the World resonated with you; Not for you if you avoid distressing, emotionally heavy stories.
Pros: powerful anti-war message; engaging survival story; hopeful amid hardship | Cons: heavy subject matter; uneven pacing; lots of shouting
Themes
- hiroshima, japan
- post war
- radiation sickness
- anime
- hibakusha
- school days
- hiroshima bombing
- post-war chaos period
Cast & crew
- IM
Issei Miyazaki
as Gen
- KN
Kei Nakamura
as Masa Tadashi
- MK
Masaki Kouda
as Ryuuta
- KS
Kae Shimamura
as Mother
- KA
Kimi Aoyama
as Katsuko
Koichi Kitamura
as Giyo Katsushiro / Matsukichi Hirayama
- MY
Masato Yamamoto
as Donguri
- MS
Masumi Satou
as Katsuji Musubi
- MY
Michi Yamamoto
as Dongou
- TI
Takao Inoue
as Father
Directed by Toshio Hirata