Barefoot Gen (TV series)

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Barefoot Gen
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. The youngest boy Shinji was a pampered child. 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
- Gaku Yamamoto as an elderly Gen Nakaoka, the narrator
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, and Ryuta Kondo
TBA as Tomoko Nakaoka, Gen's baby sister
Masanobu Katsumura as Mr. Pak
Kenichi Yajima as a chief police officer
Hiroko Nakajima as Ume
Isamu Ichikawa as Officer Hamada
Kanako Fukaura as Hanako Yoshida
Takeshi Masu as Commander Saeki
Shinobu Tsuruta as Principal Tanaka
Hiroshi Okouchi as Mr. Numata
Sakura as Kikuyo
Susumu Kobayashi as a doctor
Takao Toji as a master of the house
Yoji Tanaka as a military policeman
Hiroki Narimiya as Seiji Yoshida
Ryo as Kiyoko Hayashi
Takehiro Murata as Shinsuke Takura
Mitsuru Hirata as Dr. Yabe
B-saku Sato as Eizo Yoshida
Tokie Hidari as Setsu Hayashi
Tetta Sugimoto as Kosaku
Takehiko Ono as Denjiro Samejima
Taro Yamashita as Tatsuo Hayasi
Jyura Matsuura as Takeko Hayashi

Barefoot Gen (TV series)

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Cast

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Theme song

DVD and soundtrack

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