Issei Miyazaki, Masaki Kôda, Seiko Nakano
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
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A harrowing and moving tale about the atomic bomb that's dropped on Hiroshima as seen through the eyes of a 10 year old boy who loses the majority of his family and witnesses the terrible suffering that happened after the blast. Barefoot Gen doesn't hide itself from the horrors o...( read more)
Five years before the animated masterpiece Hotaru no Haka (1988) was created, Mori Masaki directed one of the most brutally disturbing and emotionally powerful anti-war cinematographic statements ever made. Hadashi no Gen is one of those films that decide to use dis...( read more)
I've only read one part of the manga series and this book seems to have skipped a lot of the content. The essential events are there, although the full effect isn't felt. I recommend reading the series. It is a moving account of the Hiroshima bombing, but it is also still a child...( read more)
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