Review of Rhapsody in August (1991) by Danny D — 07 Apr 2007
Pretty decent film. a late film for kurosawa made toward the end of his life, its one of my least favorite of his but still a great watch. this is a film about 4 kids spending the summer with their grandma in nagasaki reliving the events of the atomic bomb in 1945.
richard gere appears in this film and was a little miscast. gere being in this film is maybe the only decision kurosawa has ever made that I would question, but this was still a solid film. a problem that I had as an american was that the japanese characters were a little condemning about the US dropping the a-bomb, which they have a right to be, but they never mention the fact that we dropped the bomb because they attacked us first.
they make it sound like we dropped the a-bomb because we had nothing better to do that day. but it was still great to see the japanese perspective on a horific event in human history.
This review of Rhapsody in August (1991) was written by Danny D on 07 Apr 2007.
Rhapsody in August has generally received positive reviews.
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