Rhapsody in August Reviews and Ratings



  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • March 4, 2008
    Not one of Kurosawa's best, bust visually stunning.
  • October 30, 2007
    It made me cry just like when I visited the Hiroshima Peace Museum and the bomb site.
  • September 7, 2007
    Nice but ultra-minor late Kurosawa. A striking visual or three does not overcome the Richard Gere factor.
  • August 16, 2007
    Kurosawa entered his vigorous golden age with this very enjoyable and tender family story. Strong anti-war statement too.
  • June 15, 2007
    This is very interesting. A grandmother reminices of the bombings of World War II and an estrange American family member visits. It is not all about them but it rotates around the grandchildren.
  • May 2, 2007
    Only Kurosawa could make an umbrella overturning such a magical moment
  • May 1, 2007
    Not Kurosawa's best but a very tender story capturing the escence of post-nuclear japanese society. Richard Gere makes a well thought perfomance.
  • 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.
  • March 15, 2007
    Amazingly told.Simply the best.One of the most lyrical and poetic works,from Mr.Kurosawa.The flick is both a lament for the suffering caused by militarism and an outcry against the world's collective loss of memory.My most favorite scenes in the film is the sight of a colony of a...( read more)nts climbing the stem of a rose bush, a final epiphany suggesting that amidst the destruction, beauty and hope survive.
  • February 20, 2007
    Such an invigorating movie. Some of the actors in this movie were so good I was actually almost suprised that they wern't just normal people telling their story.Akira Kurosawa did an amzing job at directing this movie! As much as there were parts of this movie that I found extrem...( read more)ely funny it also took on such a serious topic without ruining any part of the movie. Some of the movies scenery was just simply breath taking! Some certain characters in this movie I disliked, but overall all the characters were very interesting. Although I must admit that at times I was a bit creeped out watching this movie! Yet this movie showed some very interesting thoughts and all in all I think this movie was very very good. :)
  • February 1, 2007
    The first Kurosawa film I ever saw, I was stunned by this director's skill and power with film. Beautiful.
  • January 24, 2007
    This is such a beautiful film. I'm giving it the highest rating because everything is just right. No tweaking of any kind could have made it better, it's just a brilliant piece of art.
  • January 13, 2007
    A film about understanding where you come from with the atomic bombing of Japan as the genesis. Quietly emotional. Richard Gere is incidental, though his appearance did cause controversy.
  • November 17, 2006
    Ok, the only thing I didn't buy was Richard Gere as long lost half cousins...
  • November 9, 2006
    This looks MINDBLOWING!!
  • October 22, 2006
    El Maestro ya estaba viejo, pero nunca perdió su tacto ni su visión.
  • September 21, 2006
    Akira Kurosawa and Richard Gere? Intriguing combination.
  • September 19, 2006
    This film is a work of art
  • June 29, 2006
    beautiful, saw it many many years ago when it came out, a master piece
  • June 14, 2006
    I very poignant film from one of the masters; Akira Kurosawa. An interesting study on "the bomb" in Japan.

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