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2 unusual facts about Barefoot Gen


Barefoot Gen

Initially released individually on dub-only VHS tape by Streamline Pictures, and then dub-only DVD by Image Entertainment, Genenon eventually sold bilingual versions of the film on DVD as a set.

Hakubun Shimomura

He refused to intercede in a debate over the censorship of the manga Barefoot Gen, which depicts the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Japan's culpability in World War II, by a school board in Matsue, stating that young students may not be able to understand its depictions properly.



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