Barefoot Gen
| Barefoot Gen | |
Original Japanese first volume of Barefoot Gen.
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はだしのゲン (Hadashi no Gen) |
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| Genre | Drama, Anti-war |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Keiji Nakazawa |
| Published by |
Shueisha Chuokoron-Shinsha |
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| Demographic | Shōnen, Seinen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump Shimin Bunka Hyōron Kyōiku Hyōron |
| Original run | June 4, 1973 – 1974 |
| Volumes | 10 |
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| Hadashi no Gen wa Pikadon wo wasurenai (Barefoot Gen will never forget about the Bomb) |
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| Written by | Keiji Nakazawa |
| Published by | Iwanami Shoten |
| Published | July 1982 |
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| Hadashi no Gen heno Tegami (A letter to Barefoot Gen) |
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| Written by | Keiji Nakazawa |
| Published by | KyouikuShiryo Publishing |
| Published | July 1991 |
| Novel | |
| Jiden Hadashi no Gen (Autobiography of Barefoot Gen) |
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| Written by | Keiji Nakazawa |
| Published by | KyouikuShiryo Publishing |
| Published | July 1994 |
| Novel | |
| Hadashi no Gen in Hiroshima (Barefoot Gen in Hiroshima) |
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| Written by | Keiji Nakazawa Kyo Kijima |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Published | July 1999 |
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| Hadashi no Gen ga ita Fukei (Seen where Barefoot Gen was) |
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| Written by |
Kazuma Yoshimura Yoshiaki Fukuma |
| Published by | Azusa Syuppansya |
| Published | July 2006 |
| Television drama | |
| Barefoot Gen | |
| Directed by |
Nishiura Masaki Murakami Masanori |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | August 10, 2007 – August 11, 2007 |
| Episodes | 2 |
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| Hadashi no Gen wa Hiroshima wo Wasurenai (Barefoot Gen will never forget about Hiroshima) |
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| Written by | Keiji Nakazawa |
| Published by | Iwanami Shoten |
| Published | August 2008 |
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Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン Hadashi no Gen?) is a Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. Loosely based on Nakazawa's own experiences as a Hiroshima survivor, the series begins in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where the six-year-old boy Gen Nakaoka lives with his family. After Hiroshima is destroyed by atomic bombing, Gen and other survivors are left to deal with the aftermath. It ran in several magazines, including Weekly Shōnen Jump, from 1973 to 1985. It was subsequently adapted into three live action film adaptations directed by Tengo Yamada, which were released between 1976 and 1980. Madhouse released two anime films, one in 1983 and one in 1986. In 2007, a live action television drama series adaptation aired in Japan on Fuji TV over two nights, August 10 and 11.
Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa created the feature "Ore wa Mita", an eyewitness account of the atomic-bomb devastation in Japan, in the monthly manga Monthly Shōnen Jump in 1972. (Translated into English as "I Saw It", it ran in the United States in Educomics' Food First Comics in 1982.) Nakazawa went on to serialize the longer, autobiographical Hadashi No Gen (Barefoot Gen) beginning in the June 4, 1973 edition of Weekly Shōnen Jump manga magazine, It was cancelled after a year and a half, and moved to three other less widely distributed magazines: Shimin (Citizen), Bunka Hyōron (Cultural Criticism), and Kyōiku Hyōron (Educational Criticism). It was published in book collections in Japan beginning in 1975.
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