Barefoot Gen: Explosion of Tears explained
| Barefoot Gen |
| Native Name: | | Child: | yes | | Hide: | no | | Header: | none | | Kanji: | はだしのゲン
涙の爆発 | | Revhep: | Hadashi no Gen
Namida no Bakuhatsu |
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| Director: | Tengo Yamada |
| Producer: | Tengo Yamada
Hisako Yamada |
| Starring: | Hiroshi Tanaka
Mariko Miyagi
Kazuhide Haruta
Ikumi Ueno
Fumiko Abe
Shoji Ishibashi
Etsuko Ichihara
Keiko Takeshita
Keishi Takamine |
| Based On: | Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa |
| Cinematography: | Setsuo Kobayashi |
| Music: | Taku Izumi |
| Distributor: | Tengo Yamada |
| Runtime: | 123 minutes |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Country: | Japan |
is a 1977 Japanese war drama film, directed by Tengo Yamada based on the Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa.[1] It is a sequel to the 1976 film Barefoot Gen and is the second live-action film based on the manga.
Cast
- Kazuhide Haruta as "Gen Nakaoka", Barefoot Gen, the protagonist of the story
- Hiroshi Tanaka as "Daikichi Nakaoka", Gen's father
- Mariko Miyagi as "Kimie Nakaoka", Gen's mother
- Chizuko Iwahara as "Eiko Nakaoka", Gen's elder sister
- Fumiko Abe as "Tomoko Nakaoka", Gen's youngest sister
- Ikumi Ueno as "Ryuta"
- Shoji Ishibashi as "Seiji Yoshida"
- Etsuko Ichihara as "Kiyo Hayashi"
- Keiko Takeshita as "Mikiko"
- Keishi Takamine as "Denjiro Samejima"
See also
Notes and References
- Sharp, Jasper. Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. United States, Scarecrow Press, 2011. 325.
