Rhapsody in August (Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku | 八月の狂詩曲)
German title: Rhapsodie im August
Francaise title: Rhapsodie en août
Spain title: Rapsodia en Agosto
Greek title: Ραψωδία τον Αύγουστο
Russian title: Августовская рапсодия
Original title: Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku | 八月の狂詩曲
Francaise title: Rhapsodie en août
Spain title: Rapsodia en Agosto
Greek title: Ραψωδία τον Αύγουστο
Russian title: Августовская рапсодия
Original title: Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku | 八月の狂詩曲
Alternative titles:
Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku | Hachi-gatsu no rapusodî | 8-gatsu no rapusodî | Рапсодия през август
Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku | Hachi-gatsu no rapusodî | 8-gatsu no rapusodî | Рапсодия през август
Drama – Japan
Production year: 1990
Movie length: 98 minutes
Production year: 1990
Movie length: 98 minutes
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda, Kiyoko Murata
Cinematograph: Takao Saitô, Shôji Ueda
Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda, Kiyoko Murata
Cinematograph: Takao Saitô, Shôji Ueda
Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Movie description:
An excellent film about four grandchildren spending their Summer with their grandmother on the outskirts of Nagasaki, and learning about their grandfather’s death in the 1945 bombing.
The kids receive a letter from their self-absorbed parents, vacationing in Hawaii, who have discovered a long-lost older millionaire brother of the grandmother, and the kids try to convince the grandmother to take them there to meet him, but she wants to wait until after August 9th, the date of the dropping of the bomb.
Much of the film deals with how the entire matter has become so taboo as a topic of discussion, with Richard Gere making an appearance in the final quarter of the film as the Japanese/caucasion son of the long-lost brother; They never knew how the father/grandfather died. The repeated images of the melted playground bars are quite disturbing, but those who feel the film is too one-sided have missed the point of the grandmother’s stories.
The kids receive a letter from their self-absorbed parents, vacationing in Hawaii, who have discovered a long-lost older millionaire brother of the grandmother, and the kids try to convince the grandmother to take them there to meet him, but she wants to wait until after August 9th, the date of the dropping of the bomb.
Much of the film deals with how the entire matter has become so taboo as a topic of discussion, with Richard Gere making an appearance in the final quarter of the film as the Japanese/caucasion son of the long-lost brother; They never knew how the father/grandfather died. The repeated images of the melted playground bars are quite disturbing, but those who feel the film is too one-sided have missed the point of the grandmother’s stories.
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