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Hadashi no Gen

1983, Movie, 1 ep, 74%, MADHOUSE

Both have War.

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,…

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About Kuro ga Ita Natsu

1990, Movie, 1 ep, 58%

Japan, summer of 1945. Nobuko, an elementary school girl, saves a little cat from crows. She desparately wants to keep the cat in her home. It is the time everyone suffers shortage of food, so naturally her parents don't like the idea. But Nobuko manages to convince them. She names the cat Kuro (black). Kuro eventually brings laughter to the family. However, the war situation becomes worse and worse...

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