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Film · 1991
Rhapsody in August
1h 38mPGDirected by Akira Kurosawa
- Drama
Tears. Laughter. Innocence. It was a summer of remembering.
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.
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Cast
Sachiko MuraseKane (The Grandmother)
Hidetaka YoshiokaTateo
Tomoko OtakaraTami
Mieko SuzukiMinako
Mitsunori IsakiShinjiro
Hisashi IgawaTadao
Toshie NegishiKane's daughter
Chōichirō KawarasakiNoboru
Narumi KayashimaMachino
Richard GereClark (Kane's Nephew)- Matsue Ono
- Kappei Matsumoto
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writer
- Ishirō Honda, Akira Kurosawa
- Novel
- Kiyoko Murata
- Music
- Shinichiro Ikebe
- Cinematography
- Shoji Ueda, Takao Saitō
- Editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Hisao Kurosawa
- Release
- May 25, 1991
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Rated
- PG
- Language
- Japanese
- Studio
- Kurosawa Production, Shochiku, Sony PCL
- TMDB score
- 7.2 / 10 from 165 votes
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