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Dec 20, 1991 · Rhapsody in August: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Sachiko Murase, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima, Tomoko Ôtakara. Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
dave s Rhapsody in August has all of the markings of a great film, but turns out to be a bit of a disappointment. Directed by the great Akira Kurosawa, it is the story of four children and their ...
Rhapsody in August (八月の狂詩曲, Hachigatsu no rapusodī or Hachigatsu no kyōshikyoku) is a 1991 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa based on the novel Nabe no naka by Kiyoko Murata. The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer.She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies. American film star Richard Gere appears as ...
Elderly Kane, a survivor of the August 9, 1945 atomic bomb blast of Nagasaki, the blast which killed her husband, still lives in the same rural house on the other side of the mountains from the city as on the day of the bomb.
Akira Kurosawa is in his early 80s now, and there are those who think he is losing his touch, that the vision that made him one of the greatest of directors is fading at last. In his 70s he gave us late masterpieces like "Ran," but his "Dreams" (1990) was not well-received, and "Rhapsody in August" was considered a disappointment when it premiered at Cannes in May, 1991. It is not one of his great films, but shows him thoughtfully trying to come to peace with the central event of his times.
Dec 20, 1991 · The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
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Rhapsody in August is about a Japanese grand master Akira Kurosawa's eloquent examination of the nuclear Holocaust in Nagasaki, as seen through the eyes of a survivor and her four grandchildren, 44 years later. The grandmother, prompted by her grandchildren and a visit from her Japanese-American nephew (Gere), recalls the history of her family and Japanese society.
The story reflects on the economic wars between the United States and Japan and the aftermath of the bombing of Nagasaki, by focusing on three generations of two related families: an American family of pineapple growers in Hawaii and a Japanese family living outside Nagasaki.
Rhapsody in August is about a Japanese grand master Akira Kurosawa's eloquent examination of the nuclear Holocaust in Nagasaki, as seen through the eyes of a survivor and her four grandchildren, 44 years later. The grandmother, prompted by her grandchildren and a visit from her Japanese-American nephew (Gere), recalls the history of her family and Japanese society.
