Barefoot Gen is an anime film that premiered in summer 1983, produced by MADHOUSE.

About the production: the story comes from a manga, the film runs about 83 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are drama, with themes such as Historical, War, Autobiographical and Gore.

On AniList, Barefoot Gen has an average score of 74%, a good score, and appears on 17,086 users' lists.

The franchise continues in or follows from: Hadashi no Gen 2.

It's the summer of 1945. 3 years have elapsed since the war between Japan and USA began. Gen is a young boy living a struggling yet satisfying life in the city of Hiroshima, that has been strangely spared by the bombing taken in almost every other Japanese City. Food is scarce, and Gen's family is suffering from severe malnutrition, which endangeres his pregnant mother. There isn't much spare time as Gen and his little brother Shinji help their father and mother at work and try to make sure their family survives the tought times. Little do they know, what the Americans have in store for the city of Hiroshima and as of the 6th of August 1945, their lives are about to change dramatically. (Source: Anime News Network)

Official synopsis from AniList.