Japanese Drama - Hadashi no Gen

* 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

Notes

* This drama special is part of Fuji TV's Documentary dramas that were aired in August 2007 every Friday and Saturday. The dramas focused on real-life stories of people who found inspiration and comfort in the song Sen no Kaze ni Natte.

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