Barefoot Gen (1983)

A boy and his family struggle to survive in Hiroshima in the waning days of WWII. Then the bomb hits and horror ensues. (by PeaceAnarchy)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Mori Masaki
Written By: Keiji Nakazawa
Starring: Wendee Lee, Barbara Goodson, Catherine Battistone, Ardwight Chamberlain, Joyce Kurtz, Ryouko Kitamiya
Genres: Drama, War, Horror, Animation
Franchise: Hadashi no Gen
AKA: Hadashi no Gen
Country: Japan
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Barefoot Gen belongs to 24 collections
1. Features under 91 minutes (collaborative: moderated by epiphany - 56 stars)
2. Fuck my life (collaborative: moderated by Dorkovsky - 38 stars)
3. World War 2 (collaborative: moderated by td888 - 16 stars)
4. Based on true events (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 12 stars)
5. Anime (collaborative: moderated by Nanera - 10 stars)
6. Based On Manga (collaborative: moderated by whatismyname - 7 stars)
7. Nuclear war (collaborative: moderated by djross - 5 stars)
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2 | anjinash | 97 95th |
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Not quite as good as Grave of the Fireflies, but just as effective and tear inducing.
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PeaceAnarchy | 73 36th |
For the first half hour this is a pretty cheery mediocre anime, then suddenly shit gets real with some truly gruesome and impacting images, but only for a little while. Unfortunately, it can't really sustain the heavy emotional impact it's going for, falling back constantly on silly melodrama with occasional somber moments. It's above average and historically interesting, but not really anything more than that.
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Stain | 90 86th |
One of the few animes about "real" things... no giant monsters or robots or anything, it's about a little boy trying to survive postnuke Hiroshima. Juvenile but really something
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ZayanK | 72 42nd |
The bad animation sometimes makes serious things (people being vaporized by the atomic bomb) look unintentionally funny.
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Dunder74 | 7 68th |
A juvenile approach to a horrific story, Barefoot Gen, despite its animation, is emotionally wrecking. There are a number of scenes that will absolutely be ingrained in your mind, and though it may not be that other WW2 anime flick, those scenes alone make this worth a watch. The score, however, would have been much higher if it weren't for a lackluster final act and some other story-related choices.
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FrankHowley | 80 80th |
Its bomb dropping sequence is absolutely incredible.
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MArkjp | 80 70th |
Occasionally has the same vibe as the joyful 'Heidi'-anime I used to watch on German television as a kid. Apart, of course, from the nuclear holocaust making peoples skin sear away from their bodies and their eyes crawl out of their skulls. And corpses in the streets...the thousands and thousands of rotting corpses. People have complained that it's too silly to take seriously, but go on then: You make film about the annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that appeals to Japanese kids.
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goremeat | 90 95th |
I *loathe* half the running time. But the goldfish-esque internal memory of the film is perfectly reflective of a child in that situation. I rate this on *the* scene that makes this film noteworthy. If you can sit through it and still feel that initiating an expansionist war is a good thing, you're colder than I! Often mistaken for an anti-American film, it's in fact subtly anti-Jingoistic. Treat it like a short film and it's marvellous.
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Average Percentile 65.52% from 327 Ratings | ![]() |