This Is The Most DISTURBING Animated Movie Ever Made...

In Japan, they estimate that the Hiroshima bombing didn’t kill 60,000 people. It killed over 300,000 people and affected hundreds of thousands more over several generations.

I once came across an article saying that the manga Barefoot Gen had temporarily been pulled from a school in Japan because someone complained about the book portraying war crimes and atrocities committed by Japanese people (with the complainer having the nerve to claim those things never happened). As an American I thought, “Oh, cripes, Japan has those people too?!” By “those people“ I mean A) people who demand something be banned because of their own delusions and B) people who automatically cater to them by banning something instead of having a meeting to discuss it (or, if the complaint is stupid enough, just ignoring it altogether). It’s bad enough dealing with those people here, so it’s sad to learn it’s an international phenomenon. (I should note that the official reason given for the ban was graphic content. Barefoot Gen is noted for being very graphic and disturbing, so if that had been the issue, that could have been a valid debate. However, due to the fact that the original complaint was someone not believing in actual history, it feels like a cover)

Heh, watched it at 3-4 years old thinking it was just a cartoon. Got horrified. Then rewatched it the next day closing my eyes during the melting people scenes.

Maybe that's why I grew up anxious and depressed.

Now, if only Japan's horrible atrocities during the war were talked about more, too...The government never really addressed it, and it isn't taught at all. History like that needs to be taught and remembered, if you ask me. Still, this was a horrible event, and none of the civilians deserved it all, of course.

If you haven’t seen “grave of the fireflies” even if I think everyone should see it once prepare to cry. Breaks even the toughest man.

In all fairness to the part about American propaganda; yes, it was pretty horrible. Then again, it was the 1940's. That said, plenty of that propaganda was earned, from the American point of view. The Japanese had committed some incalculably cruel atrocities during WWII, including the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, and the Rape of Nanking. Their military had effectively overthrown their Emperor, who didn't even want to attack America because he knew it was a bad idea. They were also very aware of Hitler's death camps, and they just looked the other way. The point is, the Japanese weren't exactly noble. They were part of the Axis Powers; not really a collection of peace-lovers. They were the bad guys back then, but they've since rebuilt themselves into a respectable, wealthy, honorable nation. And anyway, what nation hasn't had bad points in it's history?

This gave me hope I'm going through a tough situation thanks for showing this saber really made my day.

I’ve got the first 4 books for this movie

I whached Steve revewes of this film

People in Gaza live this everyday by the hands of the US and IDF

woohoo!!! one of my favorite movies!

World war 2 is too much for my brain. From my country being completely fucked by Germany and Russia to seeing the ant walkers of Hiroshima. It is just too much for my mind to see.

When people’s eyes melted out of there skull, their skin around the jaw vaporized, the clothes on their body vaporized, many left starving, limping, trying to find help shows how terrible this war was.

i watched this and it was js sad

Huh this sounds very familiar….. *remembers grave of the fireflies *

My grandfather was in the navy at the time, and he said the devastation to tokyo looked far worse than the atomic bombs. But it was the devastation one bomb could do that caused such fear. Also it was almost impossible to approach the japanese people post-war in many cases because they were told killing themselves was a far less painful and more honorable death than trying to deal with Americans. My grandfather spoke of one incident where an entire small village threw themselves off a cliff even though the Americans tried to approach in a calmer manner.

What a disgusting justification for Japanese imperialism. Oh yeah, America did it just because they were racist, not because Japan had killed millions of people.

For those who thought Grave of the Fireflies was a tad too positive

You should hear the story of the "ant walkers" and other accounts of the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Absolutely horrifying.
As terrifying as they were, they could've been worse. The first test of a hydrogen bomb by the United States in the Bikini Atoll left the are completely uninhabitable due to radiation. It is still uninhabitable to this day. Whereas the radiation levels of Hiroshima and Nagasaki dissipated to normal levels relatively quickly. Had the US developed and used a hydrogen bomb on Japan, I'd say maybe half of Kyushu would be a radioactive hellscape and the entirety of the country might have had radioactive fallout in their rainwater even up to modern day. It's possible the fallout would reach Korea and China as well.

Some key things everyone needs to know about the atomic bombings was that for every day Japan didn't surrender, thousands of people were dying. Not just soldiers, but civilians living under Japanese occupation being starved, being enslaved and worked to death, or being subjected to random acts of violence. Japanese officials were in the process of making terms of surrender. But in the time they took, thousands upon thousands died. To stop a fanatic theocratic fascist enemy who swore to fight to the end, desperate measures had to be taken.
To be clear. American planes dropped leaflets in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki warning the population to leave in advance of the atomic bombs being dropped. But of course the fascistic propaganda the people had been subjected to for years numbed their sense of basic self preservation and destroyed any will to resist authority.
When the US dropped Fat Man and Little Boy, the people of Japan didn't just see them as huge bombs. These were weapons of religious magnitude. They thought they had died and gone to hell. If it wasn't clear that Japan had lost the mandate of Heaven before, it was now. And yet there was still a failed coup attempt by officers who tried to take their own god emperor hostage.
The fact that to this day the crimes Japan committed in the Pacific, Korea, and China are still largely kept out of public knowledge, or passed off as conspiracy theories, proves just how entrenched the fascist ideology is. Although in no small part helped by the United States trying to keep communist influence out of the country the best way it knew how. By supporting fascistic sentiment. Japan surrendering was a miracle.
I say all of this as the grandson of a woman who lived in Japan at the time whose family were some of the few who had the privilege of being able to view the war negatively.

Wow I just realized that 60 seconds(the game) was based off of world war 2😶😶😶

I HATE YOU USA !!!!

"After all it'll be over in a flash" -James, When the wind blows

I watched this movie on a whim, back when I was in high school (probably back in 2011 or 12). It’s a movie that sticks with you. Especially the moment when Gen’s infant sister passes away. It’s a heartbreaking, harrowing, but masterful movie

Любая война страшна, от неё хочется убраться куда-то подальше, но не в коем случае нельзя забыть об этом и передать важные советы будущему поколению

Its sad but without the atomic bomb WW2 Wil still going until Japan is finally invade and more people Will suffer either people whose country is invade by Japan or people that join the war

Edit my country got their independen because of that

i remember i saw this movie when i was 10

I do worry about the phrasing and rhetoric of Saber when speaking about Pacific War and World War 2 Era Imperial Japan. Saying, with stars in his eyes, that the Japanese would fight till the last person, having an indomitable war-like spirit, and comparing them to the samurai is just historically wrong and insensitive knowing what they did. Anyone watching this should look up the Second Sino Japanese War in which the Japanese tried to conquer China(this is when the Rape of Nanking happened), Imperial Japan's attempt to conquer the Pacific island countries and the atrocities done to those people, as well as the government sanctioned monstrous human experimentations done at Unit 731. These all ended when the peace treaty was signed after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I don't condone their use, especially on the civilian occupied cities they were used on. I merely have an issue with rhetoric that may portray World War 2 Imperial Japan, who started a war that was also known as "the Asian Holocaust" due to the amount of war crimes and casualties committed by Japan, in a positive light light.

cool video

it really says a lot that these events can only be retold by the perspective of survivors through animation and drawings, the bomb was so devastating that it quite literally left nothing behind except a couple hundred survivors and their art.

I feel like Hisachi Ouchi deserves a story visually told as well and "facettenreich" as in Barefoot gen, while Wendigoon really did give him a respectful way of telling his story verbally, i listened to his video while i painted my walls, i chose that video to get into some science content that would stir away my thoughts from his and meatcanyons penpal video which i listended to the evening before, absolutely disturbing, needless to say that Hisachis story was not by any means less disturbing) its just sad that his life doesnt get recognised enough

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My class had a debate where we all studied one source and brought that info in. I got assigned this movie. I was- so unprepared. It’s horrific the things humans will do to each other.

Sorry to be an history nitpicker but... The Canadian Flag you used was created after WWII. We were essentially British armed forces and used the Red Soverign flag with the Union Jack in the canton as a Commonwealth Country. (In fact, the Canada Act wasn't signed until 1982.)

We were not considered a separate entity, the Allied forces being Russia, UK, and France with the US joining after Pearl Harbour, but initially being neutral.

Now I have become death the destroyer of worlds - Oppenheimer

I love watching this anime. Make me proud to be American

Funt fact: ted fugita the creator of the fugita scale first studied the damage at hiroshima before he moved to the us to study severe weather damage

Hearing about this reminds me of Grave of the Fireflies, a great anime movie but I don't ever want to watch it again, far too sad. Don't regret it but don't want to see it again. I should look into this one.
I enjoy watching disturbing movies.
If nothing else than to say I've seen it and relay what it's about to others debating on watching it.

Oh God! This movie made me cry so hard for so long...

saw a clip of this in school when we were talking WW2 and the attack on Japan. It gave me a panic attack

A mouse would never build a mouse trap, and us humans are somehow stupid enough to have made “THIS “.

Should've stayed out of Pearl Harbor.

I was going to make a reference to AMVHell but I can't after this review...

I remember watching Barefoot Gen when I was 11 and I couldn’t sleep for three days.

My god. This looks so brutal. I think I'll try to watch it.