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Barefoot Gen (1983)

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Perhaps still a controversial subject to this day, because it elicits such a strong emotional response, the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima is something that reflects in Japan’s national culture and consciousness over and over, in numerous and sometimes subtle forms. From the heart-wrenching, almost terrifying spectacle of Bhuto, an avant garde dance form, to the infamous Toho Studios monster movies like Godzilla, such events that shape history leave the world changed not only on a social and … (read more)

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