Rhapsody in August 1991

Tears. Laughter. Innocence. It was a summer of remembering.

7.164 / 10   133 vote(s)
PG
Comedy Drama

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-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.

Release Date 1991-05-25
Runtime 1h 38m
Directors Akira Kurosawa, Shôji Ueda, Takao Saitō, Vittorio Dalle Ore, Ishirō Honda, Takashi Koizumi, Naohito Sakai, Tsuyoshi Sugino, Toru Tanaka, Okihiro Yoneda
Producers Hisao Kurosawa, Toru Okuyama
Writers Ishirō Honda, Kiyoko Murata, Akira Kurosawa