Rhapsody in August

Rhapsody in August
by Akira Kurosawa

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Actor: Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima, Richard Gere, Sachiko Murase, Tomoko Otakara
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Writer: Akira Kurosawa
Producer: Hisao Kurosawa
Producer: Mike Y. Inoue
Producer: Seikichi Iizumi
Producer: Toru Okuyama
Writer: Ishir? Honda
Writer: Kiyoko Murata
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: Rhapsody in August
Summary: 5 Stars

I love this movie,very moving and will grab you emotionally.Richard Gere has a small part in the movie does pretty good speaking Japanese.The grandmother retells the events of the day Nagasaki was bombed through her personal experiences. The grandchildren learn about a very important event that has become little more than a scary story to even most Japanese who were not alive during the war.As an American the stories the grandmother tells gave me a new appreciation of the cost of this terrible event.I would highly recommend this movie to anyone.Very good quality dvd.

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Academy Award?(r) winner* Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai) delivers 'the most intimate drama of his career (Los Angeles Times), a stunning epic that is as visually tantalizing as it is emotionally touching. Set in the gorgeous countryside surrounding Nagasaki and starring Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka and Golden Globe?(r) winner Richard Gere, this endearing saga follows a Japanese family once torn apart by war and now facing personal demons brought on by contact with American cousins lost long ago. Sachiko Murase is stunning as the aging matriarchof a Nagasaki family that has long lived with a legacy of horror brought on by WWII. But when an older brother she never knew she had resurfacesalong with his Japanese-American descendantsshe must come to terms with her most deeply held feelings about America and her haunted past. *1989: Honorary Award

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, 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

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