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Hiroshima e no Tabi

Also known as Journey to Hiroshima.

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

To spend the summer vacation, junior high school student Kazuki rides a bullet train to Hiroshima to stay with his aunt. Upon arrival in Hiroshima, his aunt narrates the tragic past of what happened the day the atomic bomb fell. From the aunt, who had to overcome a lot of hardships, Kazuki learns the value of peace and how to have the courage to lose.

Tags: War , Tragedy , Historical , Table Tennis

Hadashi no Gen 2

Also known as Barefoot Gen 2.

Studio: MADHOUSE , GEN Productions , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Three years have passed since the bombing of Hiroshima and Gen is now a fourth-grader. Hiroshima is still a ruin, and Gen must scrounge for scrap metal to help keep himself and his remaining family fed, but at least commerce has returned to the land. As his mother gradually grows ill from radiation sickness, Gen and Ryuta befriend a group of orphans led by a tough-nosed older child and including a girl who still bears ugly burn scars from the day of the bomb. An old man suffering from depression is also drawn into the group as they come together to support each other and form a makeshift family. Reality is still harsh, however, as many orphans still die lonely deaths and the grim reminders of what happened linger everywhere.



Tags: Autobiographical , Tragedy , Historical , Male Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Shounen , Educational

Zeno: Kagiri Naki Ai ni

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Zeno: Kagiri Naki Ai ni is a movie about life and work of Brother Zenon Zebrowski, a Polish missionary in Japan. Brother Zenon was renown for his charitable work among victims of war and the poor in Japan.

Tags: Historical

Junod

Also known as Junod.

Studio: Studio Hibari
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Mii and Yuko, two junior high school students are visiting Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on a school trip when they come upon a monument dedicated to Dr. Marcel Junod standing forlornly in a corner of the park. They wonder who Dr. Junod was and what he did. Just then they are bathed in a strange light and transported back to Europe, more than 70 years before.

It is 1935. The young Dr. Junod, who has been working in a hospital in Mulhouse, France, is heading to Ethiopia as a delegate of the ICRC. Time travelers Mii and Yuko set off along Dr. Junod's path of hardship and turmoil. In Ethiopia, Dr. Junod witnesses attacks on Red Cross workers and the use of poison gas. One after another people are felled. The young doctor sees firsthand the horrors of war, but buoyed by an indomitable spirit he willingly offers a helping hand to those who are suffering as a result of the war.

Dr. Junod's work takes him from Ethiopia to Spain and across the European battlefields of World War II. He works to improve the treatment of prisoners of war and arranges prisoner exchanges. He establishes a method for prisoners and their families to write to each other. He secures routes for the delivery of relief supplies. As a humanitarian, Dr. Junod offers moral support to the weak. Seeing that, Mii and Yuko reflect on their own lives and problems.



Tags: Educational , Biographical , Historical , Medicine , Non-fiction

Tsuru ni Notte: Tomoko no Bouken

Also known as On A Paper Crane: Tomoko's Adventure.

Studio: Mushi Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A young girl named Tomoko visits the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. There she has a mysterious meeting with Sadako, the little girl who was 2 years old when the U.S. dropped the bomb on her city during WWII and 11 when she died from the effects of radiation poisoning. Sadako takes Tomoko on an eye-opening journey.





Tags: Kids , War , Historical

Hadashi no Gen

Also known as Barefoot Gen.

Studio: MADHOUSE , RCC Chugoku Broadcasting , GEN Productions , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

It's the summer of 1945. 3 years have elapsed since the war between Japan and USA began. Gen is a young boy living a struggling yet satisfying life in the city of Hiroshima, that has been strangely spared by the bombing taken in almost every other Japanese City. Food is scarce, and Gen's family is suffering from severe malnutrition, which endangeres his pregnant mother. There isn't much spare time as Gen and his little brother Shinji help their father and mother at work and try to make sure their family survives the tought times. Little do they know, what the Americans have in store for the city of Hiroshima and as of the 6th of August 1945, their lives are about to change dramatically.



Tags: Tragedy , Historical , War , Autobiographical , Gore , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Nudity , Educational