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  2. Rhapsody in August - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Year Without a Summer - Wikipedia

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    Icicles 12 inches long in the shade of noon day." After a lull, by August 17, Holyoke noted an abrupt change from summer to winter by August 21, when a meager bean and corn crop were killed. "The fields," he wrote, "were as empty and white as October." [33] The Berkshires saw frost again on August 23, as did much of New England and upstate New ...

  4. Sextilis - Wikipedia

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    August panel from a Roman mosaic of the months (from El Djem, Tunisia, first half of 3rd century AD) Sextilis (lit. ' sixth ') or mensis Sextilis was the Latin name for what was originally the sixth month in the Roman calendar, when March (Martius, "Mars' month") was the first of ten months in the year. After the calendar reform that produced a ...

  5. Honor By August - Wikipedia

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    Honor By August (who capitalize the "By" in their name [1]) is an American rock band originally from Washington, D.C. They come from the same scene around Georgetown University that spawned Vertical Horizon , although many years later.

  6. Tanabata - Wikipedia

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    Incidentally, Bon is now held on 15 August on the solar calendar, close to its original date on the lunar calendar, making Tanabata and Bon separate events. The name Tanabata is remotely related to the Japanese reading of the Chinese characters 七夕, which used to be read as "Shichiseki" (see explanation about the various kanji readings ).

  7. August in the Water - Wikipedia

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    August in the Water (Japanese: 水の中の八月, romanized: Mizu no naka no hachigatsu) is a 1995 film by Japanese director Gakuryū Ishii.. The director has cited English language science fiction authors Philip K. Dick and J. G. Ballard as inspirations for his "trippy, metaphysical" films of the 1990s, [1] and The Japan Times ' critic Mark Schilling cited this film as an example of his ...

  8. List of eroge - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Japanese erotic video games, also known in Japan as eroge.This list does not include fan created parodies. The market in Japan for this type of game is quite large, and only a small number of the games gain any level of recognition beyond the fans of the genre.

  9. Grave of the Fireflies - Wikipedia

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    Grave of the Fireflies was released in Japan on VHS by Buena Vista Home Entertainment under the Ghibli ga Ippai Collection on 7 August 1998. On 29 July 2005, a DVD release was distributed through Warner Home Video. Walt Disney Studios Japan released the complete collector's edition DVD on 6 August 2008.