Rhapsody in August

Movie • 1991 • PG • 1:38 hours

八月の狂詩曲

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Genres

Drama

Details

Original LanguageJA

Release date25 May 1991

StatusReleased

Movie duration98 min / 1:38 hours

Companies

Kurosawa Production Shochiku

Countries

Japan

Keywords

atomic bomb hydrogen bomb long lost relative grandmother japanese american nagasaki mourning ritual grandmother grandson relationship grandmother granddaughter relationship

Cast

Sachiko Murase
Kane (The Grandmother)

Hidetaka Yoshioka
Tateo

Tomoko Otakara
Tami

Mieko Suzuki
Minako

Mitsunori Isaki
Shinjiro

Hisashi Igawa
Tadao

Crew

Akira Kurosawa
Director

Akira Kurosawa
Editor

Yoshirō Muraki
Production Design

Kazu Hiro
Special Effects Makeup Artist

Shôji Ueda
Director of Photography

Toru Okuyama
Executive Producer

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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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