Rhapsody in August

Rhapsody in August
"八月の狂詩曲"1991Drama98 mins
★★★★★

Plot

The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-los... read more

  • Akira Kurosawa

    Director

  • Ishirō Honda

    Screenplay

  • Kiyoko Murata

    Novel

  • Akira Kurosawa

    Screenplay

  • Shôji Ueda

    Director of Photography

  • Takao Saitō

    Director of Photography

  • Akira Kurosawa

    Editor

  • Sachiko Murase

    Kane (The Grandmother)

  • Hidetaka Yoshioka

    Tateo

  • Tomoko Otakara

    Tami

  • Mieko Suzuki

    Minako

  • Mitsunori Isaki

    Shinjiro

  • Hisashi Igawa

    Tadao

  • Toshie Negishi

    Kane's daughter

  • Chōichirō Kawarasaki

    Noboru

  • Narumi Kayashima

    Machino

  • Richard Gere

    Clark (Kane's Nephew)

  • Matsue Ono

  • Kappei Matsumoto

  • Yoshiko Maki

  • Noriko Honma

    Mourner

  • Natsuyo Kawakami

  • Kumeko Otowa

  • Michio Kida

  • Shizuko Azuma

  • Sachio Sakai

    Mourner

  • Yoshie Kihira

  • Junpei Natsuki

  • Setsuko Kawaguchi

  • Shigeo Katô

  • Hiroko Maki

  • Goichi Nagatani

  • Motohiro Toriki

  • Wasuke Izumi

  • Torauemon Utazawa

  • Eiko Koike

  • Yukie Shimura

  • Saburô Kadowaki

    • Runtime

    98 minutes

    Released

    1991-05-25

    Languages

    日本語

    Countries

    Japan

    Studios

    Kurosawa Production

    Shochiku

    Sound

  • Shinichirô Ikebe

    Original Music Composer

    • Updated

    141 days ago

    Related

    IMDb

    TheMovieDB

    Data provided by TMDb
    Home Sign Up About Contact SIGN UP
    Login

    SIGN IN

    ✕

    USERNAME

    PASSWORD

    Forgot password?

    You must be logged in to do that!

    Sign up for the beta.