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Gen and his family are living in Hiroshima as Japan nears the end of World War II. Gen's father has come to believe that the war is already lost, thus earning the wrath of the town officials and, in turn, discrimination from the rest of their neighbors. Shunned by the local merchants and tradesmen, food becomes scarce for Gen and his family. All th
Gen and his family are living in Hiroshima as Japan nears the end of World War II. Gen's father has come to believe that the war is already lost, thus earning the wrath of the town officials and, in turn, discrimination from the rest of their neighbors. Shunned by the local merchants and tradesmen, food becomes scarce for Gen and his family. All these concerns soon pale, however, as the American military begins its final assault on Japan with the unleashing of its terrible new weapon.
”Barefoot Gen” is the autobiographical account of Keiji Nakazawas childhood. He was only six years old, when the bomb fell in Hiroshima and destroyed his hometown, and wanted the generations to know what it was like to grow up after a nuclear bomb, especially as the world was about to go crazy with nuclear weapons.
As a film, “Barefoot Gen” hardly is for children. While the style is traditional children manga with those big cute eyes, the story is not. Here we see the effects of the blast, people melting, eyes falling out of their sockets, skin falling of bones. Compared to the similar “Graves of Fireflies”, the animation is crude, but the story is superior. A detailed account of the seconds, minutes, hours and days after the bomb, “Barefoot Gen” never points fingers or attempts political statements, but simply gives a point of view from a child.
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Great, but you can only watch it once
It compares best with Grave of the Fireflies, but it's not as good as that one, both story point of view as well as animation.
Rating : 8/10