--- title: 'Rhapsody in August (1991)' type: 'film' director: 'Akira Kurosawa' released: '1991-01-01' runtime_minutes: 98 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/rhapsody-in-august-1991' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101991/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Rhapsody in August (1991) 1991 · 98 min · Drama · Japan Original title: 八月の狂詩曲 ## Synopsis Rhapsody in August is a 1991 Japanese drama film by Akira Kurosawa based on the novel Nabe no naka by Kiyoko Murata. Starring Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka, and Richard Gere, the story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, as she cares 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. Thematic analyses of the film focus primarily on the concern of the nuclear bomb and its remembrance; examining how the use of silence and music have been used to express its horror. Additional focus has looked at the place of family and the role of nature in the film's imagery. ## Credits - **Director:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa) - **Screenplay:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa), [Ishirō Honda](https://cinepixo.com/people/ishiro-honda) - **Editor:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa) - **Original Music Composer:** [Shinichiro Ikebe](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinichiro-ikebe) - **Producer:** [Hisao Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/hisao-kurosawa) - **Director of Photography:** [Takao Saito](https://cinepixo.com/people/takao-saito) ## Cast - [Hisashi Igawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/hisashi-igawa) - [Noriko Honma](https://cinepixo.com/people/noriko-honma) - [Richard Gere](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-gere) - [Sachiko Murase](https://cinepixo.com/people/sachiko-murase) - [Toshie Negishi](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshie-negishi) - [Hidetaka Yoshioka](https://cinepixo.com/people/hidetaka-yoshioka) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/rhapsody-in-august-1991 Film facts: Wikidata (Q660874); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.