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06/24/06
Rhapsody in August (1993)
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Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 5
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
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... [More]
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Reviews for Rhapsody in August
1 - 9 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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
Top Critic A delicately nuanced film about remembrance -- so delicate, perhaps, that it's not terribly memorable itself.
01/01/00
Top Critic 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
Top Critic1 - 9 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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