Rhapsody in August

by Akira Kurosawa, Kiyoko Murata, Sachiko Murase, screenwriter director

$1,250 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

Tokyo: Shochiku Films, 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film, dated May 28, 1990, about a year before its release. A tale of three generations in a postwar Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. When the film played at the Tokyo Film Festival, critics of Japanese militarism said Kurosawa had ignored the historical facts leading up to the bomb. Kurosawa's response was simple: he wanted his film to say that war was between

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