Rhapsody in August

Year: 1991

Runtime: 98 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Akira Kurosawa

DramaPolitics and human rightsMilitary combat and heroic soldiersHeartbreaking and moving family dramaTragic sadness and captivating beauty

An elderly hibakusha, whose husband perished among the 80,000 victims of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren. Amid tears, laughter, and quiet innocence, she discovers a long‑lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii, who asks her to visit before he dies.

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