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Hachigatsu no kyōhshikyoku = Rhapsody in August / Shochiku ; Feature Film Enterprise 2 ; producer, Hisao Kurosawa ; written and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
LIBRA VHS PL856.U735 N32 1994
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Orion classics
- World films
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Murata, Kyoko, 1955---Film adaptations.
- Murata, Kyoko.
- Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Nagasaki-shi--Drama.
- Atomic bomb victims.
- Intergenerational relations--Japan--Drama.
- Intergenerational relations.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Japan.
- Japan--Nagasaki-shi.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (98 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Rhapsody in August
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Orion Home Video, 1994.
- Language Note:
- In Japanese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS; hi-fi; stereo.
- analog
- magnetic
- stereo
- VHS
- Summary:
- A visit from her grandchildren and the discovery of a half-American relative cause an elderly woman to relive her memories of the atomic bomb that fell on Nagasaki.
- Participant:
- Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tomoko Ontakaro, Mie Suzuki, Mitsunori Isaki, Hisashi Igawa, Toshie Negishi, Choichiro Kawarasaki, Narumi Kayashima, Richard Gere.
- Credits:
- Photography, Takao Saito; music, Schubert, Vivaldi, Shinichiro Ikebe.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel Nabe no naka by Kiyoko Murata.
- Originally produced as motion picture in 1991.
- A foreign film (Japan).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the American Honda Motor Company Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1562551442 :
- OCLC:
- 30698468
- Publisher Number:
- 5062 Orion Home Video
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