Rhapsody in August
- Released on
Drama
•- Runtime
- 98 mins
(144 votes)
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.
Cast
- Sachiko Murase
- Hidetaka Yoshioka
- Tomoko Otakara
- Mieko Suzuki
- Mitsunori Isaki
- Hisashi Igawa
- Toshie Negishi
- Chōichirō Kawarasaki
- Narumi Kayashima
- Richard Gere
- Matsue Ono
- Kappei Matsumoto
- Yoshiko Maki
- Noriko Honma
- Natsuyo Kawakami
- Kumeko Otowa
- Michio Kida
- Shizuko Azuma
- Sachio Sakai
- Yoshie Kihira
- Junpei Natsuki
- Setsuko Kawaguchi
- Shigeo Katō
- Hiroko Maki
- Goichi Nagatani
- Motohiro Toriki
- Wasuke Izumi
- Torauemon Utazawa
- Eiko Koike
- Yukie Shimura
- Saburô Kadowaki
Director
- Akira Kurosawa
Producers
- Hisao Kurosawa
Screenwriter
- Akira Kurosawa
- Ishirō Honda
