May 25, 1991
98 min
Full-HD

Rhapsody in August (1991)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Kurosawa Production Shochiku

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

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