Barefoot Gen (TV drama)
| Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen) | |
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| Starring |
Ren Kobayashi Kiichi Nakai Yuriko Ishida Akiyoshi Nakao Asuka Ono Yuki Imai Kenichi Yajima Hiroko Nakajima Isamu Ichikawa Takeshi Masu Shinobu Tsuruta Hiroshi Okouchi Sakura Susumu Kobayashi Takao Toji Yoji Tanaka Taro Yamashita Jyura Matsuura Hiroki Narimiya Ryo Takehiro Murata Mitsuru Hirata B-saku Sato Kanako Fukaura Tokie Hidari Tessa Sugimoto Masanobu Katsumura Takehiko Ono |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| Production | |
| Running time | 204 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fuji Television |
| Original release |
August 10 – August 11, 2007 num_episodes = |
| External links | |
| Website | |
August 10 – August 11, 2007
Hadashi no Gen (はだしのゲン Barefoot Gen?) is a Japanese television special drama.
The drama come from the one of the popular manga "Barefoot Gen" written by Keiji Nakazawa, from his real experiences as an atomic bomb survivor.
The drama was the third special drama of the Sen no Kaze ni Natte drama special by Fuji Television in 2007.
It was during the end of the war in Hiroshima. People in Japan were facing food shortages, and air bombing day and night. But, the government and its military powers, still continued the hopeless situation, and called young people to send them to battlefields. However, people were received letters that those young people had been lost.
At that time in Japan, "Daikichi" was working as a picture drawer of Japanese footwear Geta. With his wife "Kimie", "Daikichi" worked hard to raise their four little children.
"Koji", the eldest brother, was nice and kind to his family. "Eiko", the eldest sister, was weak in health, but doing daily chores to help her family. "Gen", the naughty but cheerful kid and also nice to his family. And the youngest boy "Shinji" was a pampered child.
And "Kimie" was pregnant, so they were going to have a new family member.
When it is time to harvest the wheat from the fields outside of town, the children look forward to making bread and noodles to eat.
"Daikichi" always said to his children, "Grow up as strong as the wheat".
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