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06/24/06
Rhapsody in August (1993)
63 %
Reviews Counted: 8 Fresh: 5 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 5.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Synopsis: In this moving and thought-provoking film from Akira Kurosawa, four Japanese youngsters begin a voyage of discovery when their parents leave for Hawaii and leave them with their grandmother, Kane. The elderly woman has never forgotten the horrors caused by the bombing of Nagasaki during... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Richard Gere
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Reviews
1 - 9 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
A beautiful reminder from octogenarian Akira Kurosawa that he's still the master.
05/15/04
Mr. Gere gives a good, self-effacing performance in a role that's a little unreal. He speaks his own Japanese dialogue easily and is at the center of one of Mr. Kurosawa's most breathtaking moments.
07/16/03
Top Critic
It's proof, as if anyone needed it, that at 82, Kurosawa still possesses all of his artistic filmmaking powers.
01/01/00
Plain and simple, Rhapsody is mediocre pap. It's nothing compared with his previous work.
01/01/00
A delicately nuanced film about remembrance -- so delicate, perhaps, that it's not terribly memorable itself.
01/01/00
Kurosawa's lovely meditation on the nature of American-Japanese relations could not come at a better time.
01/01/00
It is not one of his great films, but shows him thoughtfully trying to come to peace with the central event of his times.
01/01/00
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