| Runtime: | 204 minutes |
| Screenplay: | Ryoichi Kimiduka |
| Producer: | Jun Masumoto Hisao Ogura |
| Director: | Masaki Nishiura Shosuke Murakami |
| Starring: | Ren Kobayashi Kiichi Nakai Yuriko Ishida Akiyoshi Nakao Yuki Imai Kenichi Yajima Takeshi Masu Sakura Susumu Kobayashi Yoji Tanaka Hiroki Narimiya Ryo Mitsuru Hirata Kanako Fukaura |
| Theme Music Composer: | Naoki Sato |
| Based On: | Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Network: | Fuji Television |
| Num Episodes: | 2 |
is a two-part Japanese television special based on the popular manga of the same name by Keiji Nakazawa.
It was during the end of the war in Hiroshima. People in Japan were facing food shortages, and air bombing day and night. But, the government and its military powers, still continued the hopeless situation, and called young people to send them to battlefields. However, people were received letters that those young people had been lost. At that time in Japan, Daikichi was working as a picture drawer of Japanese footwear Geta. With his wife Kimie, Daikichi worked hard to raise their four little children.
Koji, the eldest brother, was nice and kind to his family. Eiko, the eldest sister, was weak in health, but doing daily chores to help her family. Gen, the naughty but cheerful kid and also nice to his family. The youngest boy Shinji was a pampered child. Kimie was pregnant, so they were going to have a new family member. When it is time to harvest the wheat from the fields outside of town, the children look forward to making bread and noodles to eat. Daikichi always said to his children, "Grow up as strong as the wheat".
DVD and soundtrack were released on January 25, 2008, from Pony Canyon.