Akira Kurosawa: Every Movie Ranked Worst To Best

Kurosawa had a lot to say about post-war Japan and the effects the nuclear age had on the country throughout his career, but when Rhapsody In August came out it had been years since he'd properly touched on the subject.

Produced when Kurosawa was 81, the period drama was shot entirely in colour and details the twilight years of an elderly woman (Sachiko Murase) who survived the Nagasaki bombing and spends her summers caring for her grandchildren.

Though hopefully spiritual in its assessment of the war and its effects on the country's youngest generations, Rhapsody In August suffers from a wooden Richard Gere performance, but still acts as a meditative odyssey into grief and mourning as only Kurosawa could conjure.