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Rhapsody in August (八月の狂詩曲, Hachigatsu no rapusodī or Hachigatsu no kyōshikyoku) [a] is a 1991 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa based on the novel Nabe no naka by Kiyoko Murata. [6] The story centers on an elderly hibakusha , who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki , caring for her four grandchildren over the ...
The following is a list of works, both in film and other media, for which the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa made some documented creative contribution. This includes a complete list of films with which he was involved (including the films on which he worked as assistant director before becoming a full director), as well as his little-known contributions to theater, television and literature.
Madadayo (まあだだよ, Mādadayo, "Not yet") is a 1993 Japanese comedy-drama film. It is the thirtieth and final film to be completed by Akira Kurosawa.It was screened out of competition at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. [3]
The narrative of one of Kurosawa's last films, Rhapsody in August, centers on an elderly survivor of the atomic attack on Nagasaki who is visited by her half-Japanese, half-American nephew, Clark (Richard Gere), who appears to apologize, as an American, for the city's wartime destruction. Some viewers took Kurosawa to task for criticizing the U ...
I made a movie with director Akira Kurosawa [1991’s ‘Rhapsody in August’], and I was very surprised that he put ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ on his top 10 list. But I could understand ...
He talked about one of the greatest challenges of his career while playing a Japanese-American character in Akira Kurosawa’s “Rhapsody in August.” Although he learned to speak Japanese in ...
Rhapsody in August: Akira Kurosawa: Richard Gere, Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka: Drama [10] Roujin Z: Hiroyuki Kitakubo — Animated film [11] [12] A Scene at the Sea: Takeshi Kitano: Claude Maki, Hiroko Ohshima: Drama [2] Shusho kusensen ijonashi: Shusuke Kaneko: Yūji Oda, Koji Matoba, Emi Wakui — [3] Strawberry Road: Koreyoshi Kurihara
Akira Kurosawa wrote a screenplay based on "Nabe no naka", which he later filmed and released under the title Rhapsody in August. [5] An English translation of "Nabe no naka", translated by Kyoko Iriye Selden, was published in a 2015 collection of fiction by Japanese women writers. [2]