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Rhapsody in August
JAPAN · 1991

Rhapsody in August

Akira Kurosawa
atomic bombing legacy intergenerational trauma family reconciliation war guilt and responsibility memory and forgetting
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Synopsis

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.

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