Barefoot Gen

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Barefoot Gen

1983

1h 23m

Drama

Horror

War

Animation

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Filmmaker Mori Masaki shows the effects of the atomic bomb on the Japanese people.

Tim Brayton

Alternate Ending

06/08/2020

4/5

Crushing without falling into the trap of misery porn.

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Pablo Villaça

Cinema em Cena

09/09/2010

4/5

Os ocasionais tropeos dramticos da narrativa (especialmente relacionados reao e interao dos personagens) so mais do que equilibrados pela fora da histria e pela expressividade com que retrata esta pavorosa tragdia.

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Luke Y. Thompson

LYTRules.com

11/10/2005

5/5

Disturbing, subversive, and unbelievably manages to find a happy ending in Hiroshima

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

11/01/2005

2/5

John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews

01/01/2000

B

gets inside the head with its brutal imagery

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Tom F

Dec 6

A powerful look at life in wartime Hiroshima. Moments of childhood joy intensify the horrors of the nuclear attack and its aftermath.

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Thomas S

12/09/2024

Most horrific cartoon I ever watched. Gripping

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Saint

07/27/2023

An effective anti-war movie is all about a well-executed humanizing perspective, and this was excellent. The haunting, unforgettable moments that show the horrors of the bomb aftermaths, paired with the main character's naïveté, and his unsettlingly light and delayed responses to gruesome situations feel.. realistic. That's why this work did an incredible job in portraying the horror of being a child that comes from a humble loving family, who happen to be a victim of massively destructive decisions made by unforgivable political powerhouses fueled by greed—it results in generations worth of pain.

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12/03/2021

One of the few films to ever nearly bring me to tears.

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11/25/2020

The mundane,(yet riddled with strife), family life in Hiroshima's contrast to the immediate impact of the atomic bomb is one of the most emotionally distraught and intense moments in animation. Barefoot Gen is overwhelming in the emotion it invokes and conveys a powerful stoic message of pressing on. A memorable experience that no anime afficianado should do without.

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04/02/2020

A thoroughly horrific, heartbreaking and enveloping experience from start to finish, from setup and build, to climax and aftermath. The establishing of the core family is beautifully engaging and all the more gut-wrenching when the inevitable happens. The uses of sound, colour, conflicting illustration styles, all with a continually compelling episodic narrative, truly paints a beautifully complex and wholly human tragedy, spelling in no uncertain terms a protest against war and the governmental tirades of self-concerned and proud lawmen.

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Mori Masaki shows the effects of the atomic bomb on the Japanese people.

Director: Mori Masaki
Producer: Yasuteru Iwase, Keiji Nakazawa, Takanori Yoshimoto
Screenwriter: Keiji Nakazawa
Genre: Drama, Horror, War, Animation
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 12, 2020
Runtime: 1h 23m

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