Hidetaka Yoshioka, Mitsunori Isaki, Richard Gere

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  read more... )f pineapple growers in Hawaii and a Japanese family living outside Nagasaki.

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PG, 1 hr. 38 min.

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa

Release Date: December 20, 1991

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DVD Release Date: July 1, 2003

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  • April 8, 2007
    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)e appears in this film and was a little miscast. gere being in this film is maybe the only decision kurosawa has ever made that i would question, but this was still a solid film. a problem that i had as an american was that the japanese characters were a little condemning about the US dropping the a-bomb, which they have a right to be, but they never mention the fact that we dropped the bomb because they attacked us first. they make it sound like we dropped the a-bomb because we had nothing better to do that day. but it was still great to see the japanese perspective on a horific event in human history.
  • November 20, 2008
    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)r bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki.Props as in mournful homage.All's well that end's well but what's the utter point for all this?Just for Gere commercial?
  • March 4, 2008
    Not one of Kurosawa's best, bust visually stunning.
  • December 23, 2007
    Fantastic!
  • July 9, 2009
    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)ácil, é compreensível.
    O filme é interessante, bonito de assistir.
  • May 17, 2009
    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
  • January 3, 2009
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • July 30, 2008
    BLITHER BLITHER BLITHER!
  • March 23, 2008
    Would have been better without Richard Gere.
  • March 21, 2008
    oh, my goodness, it breaks my heart just knowing it happened.

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

It is not one of his great films, but shows him thoughtfully trying to come to peace with the central event of his times. full review

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