Rhapsody in August
Hidetaka Yoshioka, Hisashi Igawa, Mie Suzuki
The final film released in the U.S. by Japanese master Akira Kurosawa looks at the atomic blast at Nagasaki from a distance of more than 40 years, through the eyes of a woman who survived it--and...( read more
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DVD Released: July 1, 2003
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April 8, 2007pretty decent film. a late film for kurosawa made toward the end of his life, its one of my least favorite of his but still a great watch. this is a film about 4 kids spending the summer with their grandma in nagasaki reliving the events of the atomic bomb in 1945. richard ger... ...( read more )
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November 20, 2008Well,it isn't the worst Kurosawa,that's a gravity point.It's pathetic nonetheless.Piety and respect to the fruitful generation in spite of the elders' guidance and alternatively,the cycle continues by giving props to the what occurred in a critical epoch of a land e.g. the nuclea... ...( read more )
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May 17, 2009this film is slow... but i like it. this is a drama about hiroshima nagasaki's nuclear bomb. i can feel the trauma and the pain, and i think akira kurosawa was so smart to deliver it without serving any blood or something like that
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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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