Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
- bomb
- world war ii
- hiroshima
- japan
- based on comic
- based on manga
- bombing
- nuclear
- adult animation
- radiation sickness
- nuclear warfare
The bill
Issei Miyazaki
Gen Nakaoka (voice)
Masaki Kouda
Shinji Nakaoka (voice)
Seiko Nakano
Eiko Nakaoka (voice)
Takao Inoue
Daikichi Nakaoka (voice)
- Yoshie Shimamura — Kimie Nakaoka (voice)
- Takeshi Aono — Hidezo (voice)
- Katsuji Mori — Seiji Yoshida (voice)
- Taeko Nakanishi — Hana (voice)
- Tatsuya Jo — Narrator (voice)
- Junji Nishimura — Boku Pak (voice)
- Koichi Kitamura — Landlord (voice)
- Directed
- Mori Masaki
- Written
- Keiji Nakazawa
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 265 ratings
- Studio
- Gen Productions, Madhouse, Tokyo Laboratory, Mushi Production
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1983 · You’re hereBarefoot Gen
Where it starts.
Barefoot Gen 2
1986
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
