Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン Hadashi No Gen) is a 1983 anime war drama film loosely based on the Japanese manga series of the same name by Keiji Nakazawa. Directed by Mori Masaki, it depicts World War II in Japan from a child's point of view revolving around the events surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and the main character's first hand experience of the bomb.
Cast[]
| Image | Character | Seiyū | Dub Actor |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Gen Nakaoka | Issei Miyazaki | Catherine Battistone |
|
Shinji Nakaoka | Masaki Kōda | Brianne Siddall |
|
Eiko Nakaoka | Seiko Nakano | Wendee Lee |
|
Daikichi Nakaoka | Takao Inoue | Kirk Thornton |
|
Kimie Nakaoka | Yoshie Shimamura | Iona Morris |
|
Ryûta Kondo | Masaki Kōda | Barbara Goodson |
|
Pak | Junji Nishimura | Ardwight Chamberlain |
|
Eizo Yoshida | Takeshi Aono | Michael McConnohie |
|
Hana Yoshida | Taeko Nakanishi | Joyce Kurtz |
|
Seiji Yoshida | Katsuji Mori | Daniel Woren |
|
Haruko Yoshida | ¿? | Joyce Kurtz |
|
Akiko Yoshida | ¿? | |
|
Narrator | Tatsuya Jo | Ardwight Chamberlain |
Additional Voices[]
- Stephen Apostolina
- Steve Bulen
- Joyce Kurtz
- Carl Macek
- Michael McConnohie
- Edie Mirman
- Mike Reynolds
- Michael Sorich
- Barry Stigler
- Daniel Woren
Video Releases[]
| Distributor | Year | Format | Region | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streamline Pictures | 1995 | 
|
NTSC | United States | 
|
| Image Entertainment | 1999 | 
|
1 NTSC | ||
| Geneon Entertainment | 2006 | ||||
| Discotek Media | 2017 | ||||
|
A DVB-T | ||||
See Also[]
- Grave of the Fireflies: A similarly themed anime also set in World War 2
External Links[]
- Barefoot Gen (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Barefoot Gen at the Internet Movie Database