{"id":122966,"date":"2025-08-06T06:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122966\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:56:13","slug":"barefoot-gen-tv-documentary-turned-into-film-opening-in-november-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122966\/","title":{"rendered":"Barefoot Gen TV Documentary Turned Into Film Opening in November – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hadaashi no Gen wa Mada Okotteiru follows people bringing Barefoot Gen<\/a> to the world<\/p>\n

The BS12<\/a> TwellV<\/a> satellite channel announced on Wednesday that it is producing a film version of its 2024 documentary Hadaashi no Gen no Netsudend\u014d ~Genbaku Manga o Tsutaeru Hitobito~ that will open at Tokyo’s Pole Pole Higashinakano Theater, Hiroshima’s Salon Cinema, and other theaters in November. The film is titled Hadaashi no Gen wa Mada Okotteiru (Barefoot Gen<\/a> is Still Mad). Seitoku Iriyama is directing, planning, and editing the film. <\/p>\n

\"hadaashinogenwamadaokotteiru\"Image via Hadaashi no Gen wa Mada Okotteiru film’s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 BS12 \u30c8\u30a5\u30a8\u30eb\u30d3 <\/p>\n

The original documentary aired on BS12 TwellV in September 2024, and centered on the people who bring Keiji Nakazawa<\/a>‘s Barefoot Gen (Hadaashi no Gen) manga to the world and manage its legacy. The documentary won in the screen category of the Media Ambitious Award in 2024, and the Best Documentary award in the 15th Japan Satellite Broadcasting Association Award in 2024.<\/p>\n

Nakazawa is the creator of the world-renowned Barefoot Gen manga about the Hiroshima atomic bombing and aftermath. Nakazawa was born in Hiroshima in 1939. At the age of 6, he survived the 1945 Hiroshima bombing and the loss of most of his immediate family \u2014 his father, older sister, younger brother, and younger sister. Only he, his mother, and two brothers who were not at home survived. <\/p>\n

Nakazawa passed away<\/a> in 2012.<\/p>\n

Last Gasp Publishing<\/a> republished<\/a> the Barefoot Gen manga in North America. The story has been adapted<\/a> into two animated films and a live-action television drama special in Japan. Last Gasp Publishing also release<\/a> Nakazawa’s I Can’t Forget the Bomb: Barefoot Gen and the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima: A Memoir book, and his I Saw It (Ore wa Mita<\/a>) manga in April 2023.<\/p>\n

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