Description

Rhapsody in August 1991
Hachigatsu no rapusodî (original title)
1h 38m | Drama | 16 December 1991 (USA)
Storyline:Three generations’ responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.User review:A wonderfully warm (perhaps too ‘soft’ for some critics) film on the understanding of generations, respect for the past, cultural cross-communication and the persistence of memory. Four grandchildren of a very elderly woman have come to visit her at her home in Nagasaki one summer. They are not impressed with her cooking and strive to convince her to vacation in Hawaii where their parents are attempting to contract some lucrative pineapple import business with a relation. It would be an opportunity for the grandmother to see her ill brother, whom she can now barely remember. They really want to go to Hawaii as they are curious about their wealthy half American/half Japanese cousin Clark (played by Richard Gere).
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Kiyoko Murata (novel “Nabe no Naka”), Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda (uncredited)
Stars: Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa
Country of origin: Japan
Languages: Japanese, English
Filming locations: Amagi-Yugashima, Shizuoka, Japan
IMDB Profile tt0101991