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Clark
Kane

Tami
Tadao
Machino
Shinjiro
Critic Reviews for Rhapsody in August
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (6)
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These days, people are more interested in Kurosawa than he is in being Kurosawa.
March 4, 2013 -
There's more narrative movement here than in Dreams, but the pedagogic humanism still gets bogged down in facile simplification.
June 24, 2006 | Full Review… -
A beautiful reminder from octogenarian Akira Kurosawa that he's still the master.
May 15, 2004 | Full Review… -
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.
July 16, 2003 | Rating: 4/5 -
Kurosawa's lovely meditation on the nature of American-Japanese relations could not come at a better time.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
Plain and simple, Rhapsody is mediocre pap. It's nothing compared with his previous work.
January 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Rhapsody in August
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Apr 28, 2016A fine little film by Kurosawa. Plain but evocative. I like late-stage Kurosawa.Kyle M Super Reviewer
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Nov 20, 2008Well,it isn't the worst Kurosawa,that's a gravity point.It's pathetic nonetheless.Piety and respect to the fruitful generation in spite of the elders' guidance and alternatively,the cycle continues by giving props to the what occurred in a critical epoch of a land e.g. the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki.Props as in mournful homage.All's well that end's well but what's the utter point for all this?Just for Gere commercial?Dimitris S Super Reviewer
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Mar 04, 2008Not one of Kurosawa's best, bust visually stunning.Anthony V Super Reviewer
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Apr 08, 2007pretty 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.danny d Super Reviewer
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