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Hadashi no Gen

Barefoot Gen

Japan 1983
produced by
Yasuteru Iwase, Keiji Nakazawa, Takanori Yoshimoto for Gen Productions, Mad House
directed by Mori Masaki (as Mamoru Shinazaki)
written by Keiji Nakazawa, music by Kentaro Haneda

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review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Hiroshima, only days before the end of the war, the big bomb hasn't yet been dropped and so far, the Allies have rather refrained from bombing the city. 6-year old Gen is living a relatively happy life in the city with his family, for him and his younger brother Shinji the hardships of the war, including food rationing and hiding in the bomb shelter every other day, are more of a game than anything else ... but then the bomb drops, and suddenly Hiroshima is no more. Gen and his pregnant mother have somehow survived the ordeal, but they had to watch the rest of the family including Sinji die in flames ...

Now they have to make a living, without food or shelter, in a town littered with hundreds of thousands of dead and dieing, and without any proper medical facilities - and mother is coming down any day now ...

Eventually, young Gen himself has to help his mother give birth to little Tomoko, but that's not where the problems end: Since mother hasn't enough food for even herself, she can't produce milk for the baby, and the baby gets worse and worse ...

Gen though is not one to give up that easily, even if his hair already falls out from radiation poisoning - and eventually he finds a hidden rice depot somewhere in the city that will last him and mum for quite some time ...

Eventually, Gen and his mother build themselves a shack, and they even take in an orphaned boy, Ryuta, who is the splitting image of Gen's dead brother Shinji - and life starts getting normal again. Then though mother runs out of milk for little Tomoko, and now the two boys have to look for work in order to earn money to buy milk - and eventually are hired to take care of Seiji, a painter who has been so affected by radiation poisoning he has lost his will to live - and now uses the boys as an outlet for his frustrations ... until Gen can't take it anymore and lashes back at Seiji, virtually beating the will to live back into him, and this way he earns Seiji's respect, and when Seiji even starts painting again, Gen and Ryuta get paid tenfold of what was agreed upon.

Gen and Ryuta arrive back at mother's with more milk than the baby can drink in a month, but by now Tomoko has already died ...

The film ends on a happy note though when the boys discover that the corn starts growing again, and even Gen's hair is growing back ...

 

Based on Keiji Nakazawa's true life experiences, Barefoot Gen turns ot to be a very touching film that without falling into the trap of unreflected anti-Americanism shows the bombing of Hiroshima from the innocent victim's point of view and this way delivers a compelling anti-war message and shows the horrors of war better than any matter-of-fact documentary could. Of course, besides all the unsettling pictures and nightmare imagery, the film is not completely free from clichés and the occasional kitsch-scene (especially the ending), but that does hardly distract from the generic power of the film.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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