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Rhapsody in August
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
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. From TMDB
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Rhapsody in August is a 1991 drama film, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka and Tomoko Otakara.
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22 of 22 · most liked firstToday marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which devestated large swaths of the city, killing around 70,000 in the initial blast. If looking to reflect, Kurosawa's 2nd to last film, Rhapsody in August (1991), is about generational trauma/the question of reconciliation. Cont.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy The Academy showed Kurosawa's RHAPSODY IN AUGUST (nobody knows who owns the rights!)—a film more in the vein of Hou Hsaio-Hsein in form and theme as children learn about the horrors of Nagasaki through those who lived it—and then Richard Gere (made the same year as PRETTY WOMAN) shows up.
neutral · AI labelView post →Same, same, same. Don't get me wrong, I love Dodes'ka-den, Dersu Uzala, Kagemusha, Ran, Dreams, and Madadayo (and mostly like Rhapsody in August), but that B&W lineup is absurdly, impossibly strong. It was to the point where Kurosawa's worst movie could be described as merely excellent.
positive · AI labelView post →Kurosawa Month Day 30 🎬 Film: Rhapsody in August (1991) (Yeah, we're doing two movies in one day because I took a break on Kurosawa's birthday.) So, uuum... hello, American actor Richard Gere. What the hell are you doing in an Akira Kurosawa movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Does this include films about the reverberatios of the events years later? If so, Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) of course, and also Akira Kurosawa’s late-career film Rhapsody in August (1991)
neutral · AI labelView post →Seven Samurai isn't a bad film but Kurosawa has much better and less appreciated films, imho High and Low, Rhapsody in August, and Ikiru are my personal underrated faves
positive · AI labelView post →Attended Manchester's Hiroshima Peace Day Commemoration, which brought to mind Kurosawa's "Rhapsody in August" - I think a sadly underappreciated film. youtu.be/5WZ8GhDpbwE?...
positive · AI labelView post →Kiyoko Murata (1945- ) while raising kids. She won the 1987 Akutagawa Prize for "In the Pot" (translated by Kyoko Iriye Selden), which Akira Kuroswa later adapted into the film Rhapsody in August. Her only novel available in English is A Woman of Pleasure (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter).
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking about how one time in the 90s I was flipping through channels and ended up watching some random foreign movie that haunted me for years, so decades later I googled around to figure out what I watched and it was Rhapsody in August.
neutral · AI labelView post →No, you're thinking of another late-era Kurosawa movie, Rhapsody in August. It was alright, definitely not upper-tier Kurosawa. Ran was the feudal Japan retelling of King Lear, and it is *dope as hell.*
neutral · AI labelView post →The joys of working my job: I just discovered the movie Rhapsody in August. It is an Akira Kurosawa film... With Richard Gere in it?!??!? Adding this to my watch list.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cinema Dual’s Something Like a Filmography series on the films of Kurosawa has reached its penultimate entry. Today. @belownirvana.bsky.social look at Rhapsody in August. cinemadual.com/2025/03/15/s...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Rhapsody in August" was the 2nd Kurosawa film I viewed. I remember a shot of ants making their way along a tree branch -- and it was... mesmerising. The same way that "Ran" featured all those shots of cloudy skies that got me thinking of John Constable and the capturing of moods that way.
positive · AI labelView post →Mmhmm. Even in a lesser work like Rhapsody in August, you still have a tone and a texture that you don't get with other movies. And High and Low... gah. I remember *gasping* when the movie employed color.
neutral · AI labelView post →Official poster for this year's Cannes Film Festival, featuring a scene from Akira Kurosawa’s RHAPSODY IN AUGUST. The festival will take place May 14 - 25, 2024. #filmsky #cannes #film
neutral · AI labelView post →I really wanted to say Rhapsody in August on general principle because it's a Kurosawa film, but it's a lower-tier Kurosawa. That's not to say that it's BAD; even lower-tier Kurosawa is terrific. But if we're talking overall consistent strength? Probably Primal Fear just edging out Days of Heaven.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa. I understand the controversies surrounding the film, but at the same time, having watched sufficient Japanese media, I see what Kurosawa wanted to do, but he could have presented it more clearly. While the grandma is the focus, the 4 kids steal the film. #film
neutral · AI labelView post →Storyline: An elderly woman living in Nagasaki, Japan tells her four visiting grandchildren about the atomic bomb that fell in 1945, and how it killed their grandfather. Polish movie poster for Akira Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August artwork by Waldemar Swierzy (1991).
neutral · AI labelView post →A shot in the dark, but I'm trying to track down the Kurosawa film RHAPSODY IN AUGUST, which literally doesn't seem to exist on digital - anyone anywhere on Bluesky have a lead?
neutral · AI labelView post →🌿D-1 Cannes Film Festival 🎞 Hi Movielovers, it’s me Gaspard, tomorrow is the opening of Cannes Film Festival ! This year, for the official poster, director Akira Kurosawa is in the spotlight, since the image is from Rhapsody in August ⭐️ What’s your favorite movie from him ? ✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Kurosawa Akira film 'Rhapsody in August' featured in Cannes festival poster https://www.byteseu.com/43191/ The organizers of the Cannes Film Festival have unveiled the official poster for this year’s edition. It features a scene from the late Japanese director Kurosawa Akira’s movie based on …
neutral · AI labelView post →JW: Rhapsody in August (1991) and I think it is easily my favourite Kurosawa film. Richard Gere's presence is a little weird but I think it works thematically. Rather than big action, he focuses really small and on how characters are affected by one event for decades.
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