Summer with Kuro 1990    star_border 6.2
Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants to keep the kitten, but her parents dismiss the idea. Nobuko eventually convinces them to let her keep it. She and her brother Makoto name the cat Kuro. Kuro quickly brings joy and laughter to the family. As World War II takes its toll on Japan, it becomes harder for Nobuko and her family to care for Kuro. One August morning, Kuro begins acting strangely...

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Barefoot Gen 2 1986    star_border 6.6
Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.

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Beaten by Black Rain 1984    star_border 5.5
Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the event. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete tells the interlocking stories of a group of survivors who frequent Stand Akauma, a bar: Takeshi, who lost his entire family; Tomoko, a prostitute horribly burned in the bombing; her younger brother Junji, who scrabbles on the fringes of society; Eiko, a pregnant young woman whom he loves; and Yuri, another prostitute who is determined to secure a brighter future for her blind son.

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Barefoot Gen 1983    star_border 7.5
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

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