Barefoot Gen (TV series)

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Barefoot Gen
Barefoot Gen TV drama DVD L.jpg
Based onBarefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
Screenplay by
Directed by
Starring
Kiichi Nakai
Yuriko Ishida
Akiyoshi Nakao
Yuki Imai
Kenichi Yajima
Takeshi Masu


Yoji Tanaka
Hiroki Narimiya
Ryo
Mitsuru Hirata
Kanako Fukaura
Theme music composerNaoki Sato
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
No. of episodes2
Production
Producers
Running time204 minutes
Release
Original networkFuji Television
Original releaseAugust 10 (2007-08-10) –
August 11, 2007 (2007-08-11)
External links
Website

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. And the youngest boy Shinji was a pampered child. And 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[]

  • as "Gen Nakaoka", the main protagonist.
  • 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.
  • as "Eiko Nakaoka", Gen's elder sister.
  • Yuki Imai as "Shinji Nakaoka", Gen's younger brother and Ryuta Kondo
  • TBA as "Tomoko Nakaoda", Gen's baby sister.
  • TBA as "Mr. Pak"
  • Kenichi Yajima as a chief police officer.
  • as "Ume".
  • as a police officer "Hamada".
  • Kanako Fukaura as "Hanako Yoshida".
  • Takeshi Masu as commander "Saeki".
  • as principal "Tanaka".
  • as teacher "Numata".
  • as "Kikuyo"
  • as a doctor.
  • as a master of the house.
  • Yoji Tanaka as a military police.
  • Hiroki Narimiya as "Seiji Yoshida".
  • Ryo as "Kiyoko Hayashi".
  • as "Shinsuke Takura".
  • Mitsuru Hirata as "doctor "Yabe".
  • as "Eizo Yoshida".
  • as "Setsu Hayashi".
  • Tetta Sugimoto as "Kosaku"
  • as Japanese-Korean "Park".
  • as "Denjiro Samejima"
  • as "Tatsuo Hayasi"
  • as "Takeko Hayashi"
  • as elder "Gen Nakaoka" as narrator

Locations[]

Theme song[]

DVD and soundtrack[]

  • DVD and soundtrack released on January 25, 2008, from Pony Canyon.

See also[]

References[]

External links[]

See also[]

  • Japanese television programs
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