Barefoot Gen 2

Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)

はだしのゲン２

Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.

Date of release
1986-06-14
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (81)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Animation, Drama, War
Director
Toshio Hirata
Collection
Barefoot Gen (Animated) Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Barefoot Gen

Barefoot Gen 2 is a 1986 Japanese adult animated drama film and the sequel to the 1983 animated war film Barefoot Gen, loosely based on the Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. Directed by Toshio Hirata, the film stars Issei Miyazaki, Masaki Kōda, Yoshie Shimamura, and Taeko Nakanishi, who reprise their roles from the first film, while Kei Nakamura and Takami Aoyama join the cast. In the film, Gen and Ryuta Nakaoka join a gang of orphan scavengers and attempt to save their mother Kimie from radiation sickness, a consequence of her survival of the Hiroshima atomic bombing.

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