https://wiki.d-addicts.com/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 ... *Nakaoka Gen (young)* - Imai Yuki ... *Nakaoka Shinji* - Nakai Kiichi ... *Nakaoka Daikichi* - Ishida Yuriko ... *Nakaoka Kimie* - Nakao Akiyoshi ... *Nakaoka Koji* - Ono Asuka ... *Nakaoka Eiko* - Katsumura Masanobu ... *Bo* - Ono Takehiko ... *Samejima Denjiro* - Okouchi Hiroshi ... *Numata-sensei* - Tsuruta Shinobu ... *Prinicpal Tanaka* - Tanaka Yoji ... *Detective Tokko* - Yajima Kenichi ... *Police Chief* - Ichikawa Isamu ... *Officer Hamada* - Masu Takeshi ... *Commander Saeki - Toji Takao ... *the master of the estate* - Sakura ... *Kikuyo* - Murata Takehiro ... *Kurata Shinsuke* - Hirata Mitsuru ... *Doctor Yabe* - Sugimoto Tetta ... *Kosaku* - Nakajima Hiroko ... *Ume (Kosaku's wife)* - Ryo ... *Hayashi Sayako* - Hidari Tokie ... *Hayashi Setsu* - Yamashita Takuro ...*Hayashi Tatsuo* - Matsuura Jura ... *Hayashi Takeko* - Kobayashi Susumu ... *the doctor* - Sato B-saku ... *Yoshida Eizo* - Fukaura Kanako ... *Yoshida Hanako* - Narimiya Hiroki ... *Yoshida Seiji* - Yamamoto Gaku ... *Nakaoka Gen (old)*   #### **Production Credits** - **Original writing:** Nakazawa Keiji - *Hadashi no Gen* (manga) - **Screenwriter:** Kimizuka Ryoichi - **Producer:** Masumoto Jun, Ogura Hisao - **Director:** Nishiura Masaki, Murakami Masanori - **Music:** Sato Naoki