Rhapsody in August
25 May 1991| 98 min
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.
Genres
Drama
Cast
Sachiko Murase
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Tomoko Otakara
Mieko Suzuki
Mitsunori Isaki
Hisashi Igawa
Toshie Negishi
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Narumi Kayashima
Richard Gere
Matsue Ono
Kappei Matsumoto
Yoshiko Maki
Noriko Honma
Natsuyo Kawakami
Kumeko Otowa
Michio Kida
Shizuko Azuma
Sachio Sakai
Yoshie Kihira
Junpei Natsuki
Setsuko Kawaguchi
Shigeo Katō
Hiroko Maki
Goichi Nagatani
Motohiro Toriki
Wasuke Izumi
Torauemon Utazawa
Eiko Koike
Yukie Shimura
Saburô Kadowaki
