Movie Info

The final film released in the U.S. by Japanese master Akira Kurosawa looks at the atomic blast at Nagasaki from a distance of more than 40 years...(read more...) , through the eyes of a woman who survived it--and the grandchildren who are spending the summer with her. Though she tries not to think about it, the memory of the bombing is with her every day, in the family she lost and the scars she still carries. But the grandchildren insist on seeing the memorial, which brings it home to her once again--and to us. Though sometimes slow going (and what is Richard Gere doing in this movie, as her Amer-Asian nephew?), Rhapsody in August is a story about family and about living in the present while never being allowed to forget the past. --Marshall Fine

Director: Akira Kurosawa

MPAA: PG

Running Time: 98 min.

Release Date: Dec 20, 1991

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Hisashi Igawa, Mie Suzuki, Mitsunori Isaki, Narumi Kayashima, Richard Gere, Sachiko Murase, Tomoko Otakara, Toshie Negishi