Barefoot Gen: Explosion of Tears

Barefoot Gen
DVD cover
Kanji	はだしのゲン 涙の爆発
Revised Hepburn	Hadashi no Gen Namida no Bakuhatsu
Directed by	Tengo Yamada
Written by	Keiji Nakazawa
Based on	Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
Produced by	Tengo Yamada Hisako Yamada
Starring	Hiroshi Tanaka Mariko Miyagi Kazuhide Haruta Ikumi Ueno Fumiko Abe Shoji Ishibashi Etsuko Ichihara Keiko Takeshita Keishi Takamine
Cinematography	Setsuo Kobayashi
Music by	Taku Izumi
Distributed by	Tengo Yamada
Release date	March 26, 1977 (1977-03-26)
Running time	123 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Barefoot Gen: Explosion of Tears (はだしのゲン 涙の爆発, Hadashi no Gen: Namida no Bakuhatsu) is a 1977 Japanese war drama film, directed by Tengo Yamada based on the Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. It is a sequel to the 1976 film Barefoot Gen and is the second live-action film based on the manga.

Cast

• Kazuhide Haruta as "Gen Nakaoka", Barefoot Gen, the protagonist of the story
• Hiroshi Tanaka as "Daikichi Nakaoka", Gen's father
• Mariko Miyagi as "Kimie Nakaoka", Gen's mother
• Chizuko Iwahara as "Eiko Nakaoka", Gen's elder sister
• Fumiko Abe as "Tomoko Nakaoka", Gen's youngest sister
• Ikumi Ueno as "Ryuta"
• Shoji Ishibashi as "Seiji Yoshida"
• Etsuko Ichihara as "Kiyo Hayashi"
• Keiko Takeshita as "Mikiko"
• Keishi Takamine as "Denjiro Samejima"

See also

• Barefoot Gen (anime)
• Barefoot Gen (TV drama)
• Grave of the Fireflies

External links

• Barefoot Gen at IMDb