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Dominican Rep. Rhapsody in August
- Original title
- Hachigatsu no kyôshikyoku (Rhapsody in August)
- Year
- 1991
- Running time
- 93 min.
- Country
Japan- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Richard Gere
Hisashi Igawa- Mitsunori Isaki
Toshie Negishi- Mieko Suzuki
Sachiko Murase
Narumi Kayashima
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Tomoko Otakara- Shizuko Azuma
Noriko Honma
Choichiro Kawarazaki- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Nuclear Holocaust
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Awards
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1991: Cannes Film Festival: Official selection (Out of competition)1992: Premios de la Academia Japonesa: 4 awards. 10 nominations
- Critics' reviews
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"These days, people are more interested in Kurosawa than he is in being Kurosawa"
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"A beautiful reminder from octogenarian Akira Kurosawa that he's still the master."
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"There's more narrative movement here than in Dreams, but the pedagogic humanism still gets bogged down in facile simplification."
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