Barefoot Gen 2
Barefoot Gen2 , Hadashi no Gen 2? is a 1986 Japanese action drama anime film following the 1983 Barefoot Gen animated film, loosely based on the Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa.
While the first movie focused on the immediate effect of the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the second film focuses on the longterm problems that faced the survivors, including the devastated economy and infrastructure, food shortages, unemployment, lack of housing, and the lingering effects of the atomic bombs radioactive fallout.Three years after the war, most of Hiroshima is still in ruins. Gen and Ryutas school is housed a building halfwrecked by bomb damage, where a teacher is seen explaining the principles of Japans new constitution. Still under American military occupation which Gen clearly resents, Japans economy is beginning to recover, but many of its people still cannot afford even basic necessities of life. Gen and his family struggle to survive, and while his mother gets a job at a brickbuilding factory, it is barely enough to support their basic needs. There are also several gangs of orphaned children squatting in the ruins instead of going to school. At first, contact with them is adversarial, but Gen soon realizes that they have nowhere else to go and are as desperate as he is, striking up a friendship with them. During a lighter moment in the film, Gen and the children stumble upon an old military firing range where ammunition was dumped at the end of the war. The gang leader, Masa, realizes they can sell the old bullets for scrap metal, and the entire group starts filling wheelbarrows with spent shell casings, singing as they work. ........
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