"Barefoot Gen" director

"Barefoot Gen" director

TOKYO, Japan - Yuko Ishida, who directed "Barefoot Gen's Hiroshima," gives an interview with Kyodo News on July 6, 2013 in Tokyo. The documentary film is about Keiji Nakazawa who wrote the manga series "Barefoot Gen" based on his own experience from the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing on Hiroshima.

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