Should you watch Barefoot Gen?
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Barefoot Gen
Anime · 1983
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
The sides of Barefoot Gen
- A boy in Hiroshima in August 1945
- The bomb falling on an ordinary morning
- A child looking after his mother in the ruins
Barefoot Gen is good for you if…
- you want to be moved by a child who keeps going after losing almost everything.
- you want to see the Hiroshima bombing through the eyes of one family.
- you want a war film about civilians, not soldiers.
Barefoot Gen is bad for you if…
- you can't watch the death of children and parents on screen.
- you can't stand bodies burning and melting in graphic detail.
- you don't watch animated films.
About: grief · survival · war
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