Details
Title: はだしのゲン
Title (romaji): Hadashi no Gen
Also known as: Barefoot Gen
Format: Tanpatsu in two parts
Genre: Human drama
Viewership ratings: 18.2(1st), 20.5(2nd)
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2007-Aug-10 and 2007-Aug-11
Air time: Friday, Saturday 21:00
Theme song: Sen no Kaze ni Natte by Masafumi Akikawa
Synopsis
Nakai Kiichi plays Daikichi, who in 1945 paints designs on wooden sandals to support his pregnant wife Kimie (Ishida Yuriko) and their four children in Hiroshima. He grows wheat to keep his family fed during the lean war years. He is also resolutely against the war and is arrested by the public security police for being "unpatriotic." Consequently, his son Gen is bullied at school. -- Japan Times Online
Cast
Kobayashi Ren as Nakaoka Gen (young)
Imai Yuki as Nakaoka Shinji
Nakai Kiichi as Nakaoka Daikichi
Ishida Yuriko as Nakaoka Kimie
Nakao Akiyoshi as Nakaoka Koji
Ono Asuka (小野明日香) as Nakaoka Eiko
Katsumura Masanobu as Bo
Ono Takehiko as Samejima Denjiro
Okouchi Hiroshi (大河内浩) as Numata-sensei
Tsuruta Shinobu as Prinicpal Tanaka
Tanaka Yoji as Detective Tokko
Yajima Kenichi as Police Chief
Ichikawa Isamu as Officer Hamada
Masu Takeshi as Commander Saeki
Toji Takao as the master of the estate
Sakura as Kikuyo
Murata Takehiro as Kurata Shinsuke
Hirata Mitsuru as Doctor Yabe
Sugimoto Tetta as Kosaku
Nakajima Hiroko as Ume (Kosaku's wife)
Ryo as Hayashi Sayako
Hidari Tokie (左時枝) as Hayashi Setsu
Yamashita Takuro (山下タクロー) as Hayashi Tatsuo
Matsuura Jura (松浦寿來) as Hayashi Takeko
Kobayashi Susumu as the doctor
Sato B-saku as Yoshida Eizo
Fukaura Kanako as Yoshida Hanako
Narimiya Hiroki as Yoshida Seiji
Yamamoto Gaku as Nakaoka Gen (old)
Production Credits
Original writing: Nakazawa Keiji (中沢啓治) Hadashi no Gen (manga)
Screenwriter: Kimizuka Ryoichi
Producers: Masumoto Jun (増本淳), Ogura Hisao
Directors: Nishiura Masaki, Murakami Masanori
Music: Sato Naoki
Hadashi no Gen
