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Barefoot Gen 2 (movie)

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©1986 Gen Production

Alternative title:
Barfuß durch Hiroshima 2 (German)
Boso przez Hiroszimę 2 (Polish)
Hadashi no Gen 2 (Japanese)
はだしのゲン２ (Japanese)
Genres: drama
Themes: historical
Plot Summary: Three years have passed since the bombing of Hiroshima and Gen is now a fourth-grader. Hiroshima is still a ruin, and Gen must scrounge for scrap metal to help keep himself and his remaining family fed, but at least commerce has returned to the land. As his mother gradually grows ill from radiation sickness, Gen and Ryuta befriend a group of orphans led by a tough-nosed older child and including a girl who still bears ugly burn scars from the day of the bomb. An old man suffering from depression is also drawn into the group as they come together to support each other and form a makeshift family. Reality is still harsh, however, as many orphans still die lonely deaths and the grim reminders of what happened linger everywhere.
User Ratings: 159 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 8 votes (sub:6, raw:1, dub:1)
 Excellent: 34 votes (sub:26, dub:5, ?:1, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 37 votes (sub:34, raw:1, dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 52 votes (sub:46, dub:2, ?:1, others:3
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 17 votes (sub:14, dub:3)
 So-so: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 268 users, rank: #3280 (of 9858)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.459 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.5731, rank: #2023 (of 10013)
Weighted mean: 7.446 (Good+), rank: #1883 (of 10013) (seen all: 7.45 / seen some: 10.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.449 (Good+), rank: #1575 (of 7550)
Running time: 85 minutes
Vintage: 1986-06-14
Premiere date:
1986-06-14 (Japan)
Release dates: We have 2
Review:
Barefoot Gen DVD (Aug 21, 2006)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Barefoot Gen - Animated Movies 1-2 (Blu-ray) 2017-12-26 (from $29.95)
DVD (Region 1)
    Barefoot Gen - Animated Movies 1-2 (DVD) 2017-12-26
    Barefoot Gen - The Movies 1 & 2 (Sub.DVD) 2006-08-08

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Toshio Hirata
Screenplay: Hideo Takayashiki
Music: Kentarō Haneda
Original Manga: Keiji Nakazawa
Character Design: Akio Sakai
Art Director: Masayoshi Banno
Sound Director: Susumu Aketagawa
Director of Photography: Kinichi Ishikawa
Producer:
Shoutarou Tanabe
Takanori Yoshimoto
Yasuki Iwase

Animation Check:
Masaki Takei
Motoki Yagi
Motoko Hiraishi
Wakako Ueda
Assistant Animation Director:
Kengo Inagaki
Kunihiko Sakurai
Reiko Kurihara
Yutaka Okamura
Assistant Director: Naoko Kusumi
Audio Production: Masafumi Mima
Background Art:
Akira Yamakawa
Katsushi Aoki
Kazuo Oga
Kazutoshi Shimizu
Kenji Notani
Kyōko Naganawa
Seiji Miyamoto
Toshiyuki Ozeki
Yamako Ishikawa
Yōko Nagashima
Yūji Ikeda
Yukiko Kouda
Character Animation Director: Akio Sakai
Color Key: Michiyo Iriomote
Editing: Harutoshi Ogata
Editing Assistant: Yukiko Itō
Head of Production: Kuniaki Nagayama
In-Between Animation:
Hajime Sasaki
Hajime Yoshida
Hiroaki Daichi
Hiromi Nakai
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Ikou Ake
Junichi Nagano
Junko Aoyama
Keiko Sakuma
Keiko Watanabe
Kōichi Taguchi
Kumiko Tanihira
Kyoko Higurashi
Masako Arai
Masayuki Ota
Michiko Noda
Murasaki Ikeda
Naoyoshi Matsuda
Sachiko Yoneyama
Seiji Handa
Shigeki Kuhara
Shigeo Sakuma
Shinichi Sasaki
Tadateru Kawamura
Takako Inagaki
Takanori Negishi
Tsutomu Nishiyama
Yoshiko Shimura
Yoshiyuki Fukuda
Yukari Ikeda
Yukari Yamaura
Yūsuke Takahashi
Ink & Paint:
Aiko Katou
Atsuko Aizawa
Fumiko Matsuda
Fusae Kondou
Haruko Ozaki
Hideko Kudō
Hiroe Takekura
Hitomi Ishibashi
Kōji Satō
Kyōko Ōtake
Mariko Hara
Mayumi Kanai
Misao Nakamura
Nagisa Andō
Naoko Shibayama
Sachiko Abe
Yasuko Hasegawa
Yeong Suk Lee
Yōko Ueda
Yukari Tsuneda
Yuriko Ishida
Ink & Paint Advancement:
Masahiko Tamaru
Yasuhide Baba
Ink & Paint Check:
Chikako Kamata
Emiko Matsumoto
Kiyomi Tomita
Kuniko Kishi
Yuki Hisada
Key Animation:
Kahoru Hirata
Koichi Tsuchida
Makoto Itō
Nobumasa Shinkawa
Nobuyuki Kitajima
Seiji Muta
Shigetaka Kiyoyama
Shigeyuki Suga
Shinsuke Terasawa
Sonomi Aramaki
Toshiyuki Inoue
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Yoshinori Kanemori
Yoshinori Tanabe
Yūki Kinoshita
Music Recording: Teruhiko Ohno
Photography:
Akira Koganezawa
Hideo Sugaya
Hisao Taguchi
Hitoshi Yamaguchi
Kaoru Kuwahara
Katsuhiro Miyamoto
Masashi Takekawa
Masayuki Hirono
Minoru Takaishi
Norihiko Sakurai
Shigeo Kamiyama
Sumio Yamaue
Susumu Yamakawa
Tatsuya Oda
Yumiko Kajihara 
Production Administration: Nobuko Maruyama
Production Assistant:
Kazunobu Shimizu
Masahiro Ōtake
Production Design: Masao Maruyama
Production Desk: Shunsuke Kawamoto
Production manager: Yasuo Takahashi
Recording: Ichiro Tsujii (AOI Studio)
Recording Assistant: Yukie Naito
Segment Director:
Hiroyuki Ebata (assistant)
Hiroyuki Fukushima (assistant)
Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi (Tôyô Onkyô)
Special Effects:
Kunji Tanifuji
Nobuyuki Kanai
Satoru Hirono
Theme Song Composition: Kentarō Haneda
Theme Song Lyrics: Akira Itō
Theme Song Performance: Nobuaki Takahashi
Issei Miyazaki as Gen

Kei Nakamura as Masa
Masaki Kouda as Ryuuta

Hiroshi Ōtake as Policeman
Junji Nishimura as Doctor
Kae Shimamura as Mother
Kimi Aoyama as Katsuko
Kōichi Kitamura as
Giyo Katsushiro
Matsukichi Hirayama
Kōji Takagi as Kacchin
Masato Yamamoto as Donguri
Masumi Satō as Katsuji Musubi
Takao Inoue as Father
Takeshi Aono as Teacher

Kōji Totani
Kyōko Tongū
Mami Matsui
Reiko Suzuki
Ryō Horikawa
Ryōichi Tanaka
Seiko Nakano
Japanese companies
English companies
English staff
(none)
Distributor:
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
Optimum Releasing (UK)
Internet Streaming: RetroCrush
Licensed by:
Discotek Media (2017)
Geneon Entertainment Inc. (Expired)
Production: Geneon Entertainment Inc.
English cast
(none)
German staff
German companies
(none)
Distributor:
Anime-Virtual
Kazé Germany (now)
German cast
(none)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Distributor: Versátil Home Vídeo (DVD-subtituled only)
Portuguese cast
(none)

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