Barefoot Gen [1983] - A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy’s life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Watch Online (via youtube) - they’re in parts (subbed) and there is a full english-dubbed anime.

Barefoot Gen [1986] - Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.

Watch Online (via youtube)

the artist/director was in an interview in the documentary ‘white light and black rain’, but i only checked it out because molham made me watch a youtube video and it was pretty darn intense. 

so, thank you molham. 

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    The movie begins typically enough as we see Gen and his family struggling to get by in Hiroshima in the summer of 1945....
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    Everyone should watch ‘Grave of the Fireflies.’
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