Rhapsody in August

7.1

1991-05-25

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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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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1991-05-25

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Director

Akira Kurosawa

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Drama

Language

日本語

Production

Kurosawa Production

Shochiku

Rhapsody in August

Storyline

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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Sachiko Murase

Hidetaka Yoshioka

Tomoko Otakara

Mieko Suzuki

Mitsunori Isaki

Hisashi Igawa

Toshie Negishi

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Narumi Kayashima

Richard Gere

Matsue Ono

Kappei Matsumoto

Yoshiko Maki

Noriko Honma

Natsuyo Kawakami

Kumeko Otowa

Michio Kida

Shizuko Azuma

Sachio Sakai

Yoshie Kihira

Junpei Natsuki

Setsuko Kawaguchi

Shigeo Katō

Hiroko Maki

Goichi Nagatani

Motohiro Toriki

Wasuke Izumi

Torauemon Utazawa

Eiko Koike

Yukie Shimura

Saburô Kadowaki