Barefoot Gen Part 3: Battle of Hiroshima

Barefoot Gen
Kanjiはだしのゲン Part 3
ヒロシマのたたかい
Revised HepburnHadashi no Gen Part 3
Hiroshima no Tatakai
Directed byTengo Yamada
Written byTengo Yamada (screenplay)
Based onBarefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
Produced byTengo Yamada
Hisako Yamada
Yusaku Uchida
StarringMizuho Suzuki
Satomi Oka
Jun Harada
Yasufumi Hayashi
Kenichi Sakuragi
Jun Fubuki
Daigo Kusano
Rinichi Yamamoto
Ichiro Zaitsu
Akira Nishikino
Shinya Ono
Eishin Tono
CinematographyMasamich Sato
Music byMasaaki Hirao
Production
company
Gendai Productions
Distributed byTengo Yamada
Release date
  • July 5, 1980 (1980-07-05)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Barefoot Gen Part 3: Battle of Hiroshima (はだしのゲン Part 3 ヒロシマのたたかい, Hadashi no Gen Part 3: Hiroshima no Tatakai) is a 1980 Japanese war drama film, directed by Tengo Yamada. It is the third installment in the Barefoot Gen live-action film series.[1]

Plot

The film follows Gen and his mother as they search for housing, work, and food, encountering other survivors, including a severely burned artist named Seiji, and dealing with the death of his sister Tomoko, ending on a note of resilience as they plant wheat and launch paper lanterns.

Cast

  • Jun Harada as "Gen Nakaoka", Barefoot Gen, the protagonist of the story
  • Mizuho Suzuki as "Daikichi Nakaoka", Gen's father
  • Satomi Oka as "Kimie Nakaoka", Gen's mother
  • Kenichi Sakuragi as "Koji Nakaoka", Gen's eldest brother
  • Yasufumi Hayashi as "Ryuta"
  • Jun Fubuki as "Sumiko Nomura"
  • Daigo Kusano as "Oba"
  • Rinichi Yamamoto as "Okauchi-kumi-cho"
  • Ichiro Zaitsu as "Boku-san"
  • Akira Nishikino as "Nakayama-sho-sa"
  • Shinya Ono as "Kimai-sho-sa"
  • Eishin Tono as "Tamikichi"

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sharp, Jasper (September 21, 2005). "Barefoot Gen". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 2025-08-28.


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