Barefoot Gen is a 1983 Japanese animated film about a boy named Gen who lives in Hiroshima during World War II. It starts by depicting his everyday life, where his family faces poverty and social pressure because his father opposes the war. When the atomic bomb strikes Hiroshima, Gen's life is shattered in an instant. The film then focuses on his struggle to survive with his mother amid hunger, injury, and the devastation surrounding them.
Watching the film is incredibly intense and emotional. It portrays the bombing and its effects in a direct and realistic manner, especially from a child's perspective, which makes everything more personal and heartbreaking. Many scenes emphasize survival over action, showing people searching for food, coping with injuries, and trying to stay alive in a ruined city. Gen's responses to loss and suffering deeply resonate, particularly as he continues to push forward despite everything he loses. The tone remains heavy throughout, leaving a lasting emotional impact by not shying away from the consequences of war.
by Kiroo—__—
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Why did the mod removed your older post?
With all due respect to the Japanese post war generation and their rejection of fascist ideology and embrace of pacifism, they have never (unlike their German Allies) have embraced their role in committing atrocities all across Asia or their fanatical superiority complex, some of which remains today. So watch the film and empathize with the plight of the innocent civilians/children caught up in the war and atomic bombing, but don’t fail to recognize how incomplete a picture this represents in the war that they started.
It did what Christopher Nolan couldn’t.
My turn to post this somewhere tomorrow
Why would you post this with music over everything?
Original: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZJ1-I56FMY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZJ1-I56FMY)
Ah yes, the ” we did terrible things to other nations and lost for it, but you should feel bad for us” film.
What’s with the music? That’s not the original audio, why would anyone replace that?
The music accompanying it is absolutely idiotic like what does it add
Anytime i see things about hiroshima/nagasaki i am always reminded of an art exhibition i went to see with my mother. It was a collection of drawings done by children who survived the bombings. There is no image that haunts me so much as a crude crayon drawing of a river of corpses. Even typing this out has made me tear up recalling it.
I saw this film as a kid, maybe 8-10 years old in the early 90s and this scenes is forever seared in my memory. It is utterly devastating, as is the rest of the film.
you could have uploaded the entire scene but ok.
i always found it interesting, must have been ironic to have the americans judge the nazis on war crimes when they did the worst one not once but twice, i don’t think there was ever in history such a indiscriminate mass killing ever done, babies, pets, women, men, old people, sick people, people from other countries living there, etc.. they just wiped out everyone no matter who they were. Truly insane