Hidetaka Yoshioka, Hisashi Igawa, Mie Suzuki
The story reflects on the economic wars between the United States and Japan and the aftermath of the bombing of Nagasaki, by focusing on three generations of two related families: an American family o...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 1, 2003
Stats: 135 reviews
pretty 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)
Well,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)
No início achei a atuação das crianças meio irritante. E convenhamos que o Richard Gere só faz uma participação especial de no máximo 30 min, colocaram o nome dele na capa do dvd como se ele fosse o ator principal. Tudo bem, vender um dvd do Akira Kurosawa não deve ser lá muito f...( read more)
this 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
It made me cry just like when I visited the Hiroshima Peace Museum and the bomb site.
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