# Rhapsody in August (1991)

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**Original title**: *八月の狂詩曲*
**Runtime**: 98 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Akira Kurosawa
**Written by**: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda
**Starring**: Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tomoko Otakara, Mieko Suzuki, Mitsunori Isaki, Hisashi Igawa

> *Tears. Laughter. Innocence. It was a summer of remembering.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A quiet Hiroshima matriarch welcomes her Tokyo grandchildren for a sunlit summer while her American nephew lands from Hawaii. The children’s questions about 1945 unearth decades of silence, forcing regret and fragile hope onto the same porch. Kurosawa’s last summer glow.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, tender

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