Rhapsody in August
Tears. Laughter. Innocence. It was a summer of remembering.
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- Drama
- Comedy
Overview
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.
Keywords
- japan
- grandmother
- long lost relative
- atomic bomb
- grandmother granddaughter relationship
- grandmother grandson relationship
- hydrogen bomb
- mourning ritual
- japanese american
- nagasaki
- nagasaki, japan
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 25, 1991
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Shochiku,Kurosawa Production,IMAGICA,Sony PCL
- Cast
- Sachiko Murase,Hidetaka Yoshioka,Tomoko Otakara,Mieko Suzuki,Mitsunori Isaki,Hisashi Igawa,Toshie Negishi,Chōichirō Kawarasaki,Narumi Kayashima,Richard Gereand 21 more
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Toru Okuyama,Hisao Kurosawa
- Cinematography
- Shoji Ueda,Takao Saitō
- Music
- Shinichiro Ikebe
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0101991