Rhapsody in August

Czech title

Rhapsody in August

Original title

八月の狂詩曲

Also known as

Hachigatsu no kyoshikyoku · Srpnová rapsodie

Rhapsody in August (Japanese: 八月の狂詩曲, Hepburn: Hachigatsu no Rapusodī) is a 1991 Japanese drama film by Akira Kurosawa based on the novel Nabe no Naka by Kiyoko Murata. Starring Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka, and Richard Gere, the story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, as she cares for her four grandchildren over the summer.