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Daikichi and Kimie realize the war is not going well, though they wonder why Hiroshima has been spared from the air raids which devastated other Japanese cities. On August 6, 1945, Gen and a friend arrive at school just as a lone B-29 aircraft flies overhead and releases an atomic bomb , which destroys the city.
When a girl became ill, the monk did not take her to the hospital and she died. Kurosaki barely escaped the island, and was comforted by a beautiful rainbow on a painted sign. Gen and the orphans see a sign advertising a lecture by the neighborhood chairman who had called Gen's father a traitor, but a rainbow soothes them.
The film is set in the 1930s–1940s in Hiroshima and Kure in Japan, roughly ten years before and after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, but mainly in 1944–45. In the film, nature and traditional culture in Japan are clearly described and contrasted with the cruel and irredeemable scenes brought by the war.
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Barefoot Gen 2 (はだしのゲン2, Hadashi no Gen 2) is a 1986 Japanese adult animated drama film and the sequel to the 1983 animated war film Barefoot Gen, loosely based on the Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. [1]
Black Rain (黒い雨, Kuroi ame) is a 1989 Japanese drama film by director Shōhei Imamura, it is the 18th movie of his career as the director, based on the novel of the same name by Masuji Ibuse. The story centers on the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its effect on a surviving family. [2] [3]