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Rhapsody in August is a tale of three generations in a post-war Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. Kane is an elderly woman, now suffering the consequences of older age and diminishing memory, whose husband was killed in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
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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.
- (7.6K)
- Drama, War
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1991-12-20
Dec 20, 1991 · Overview. 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.
In a story that finds Kurosawa creeping towards the world of Ozu, RHAPSODY IN AUGUST is a low-intensity examination of three generations living in post-Nagasaki Japan, still contemplating the loss, destruction and the rising generation's ignorance of the bomb's impact on their history.
- (5.5K)
- Kurosawa Production, Shochiku
- Akira Kurosawa
Feb 21, 1992 · Rhapsody in August. Roger Ebert February 21, 1992. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. 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.
Mar 1, 2015 · This March, our film club continues with the theme of nuclear bombing, as we watch Kurosawa’s penultimate directorial work, the 1991 film Rhapsody in August. The film follows four children who are spending a summer holidays with their grandmother in a small town near Nagasaki.
Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation. They learn about the atomic bomb that fell in 1945, and how it killed their grandfather. — Matthew Rorie <mrorie@vt.edu>.
