JAPAN · 1991
Rhapsody in August
Japanese Golden Age
atomic bombing legacy
intergenerational trauma
family reconciliation
war guilt and responsibility
memory and forgetting
Synopsis
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.
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