06 Sep 2003
Zatoichi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Rhapsody in August
Tears. Laughter. Innocence. It was a summer of remembering.
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
Top Billed Cast
村瀬幸子 Kane (The Grandmother)
吉岡秀隆 Tateo
大寶智子 Tami
鈴木美恵子 Minako
伊崎充則 Shinjiro
井川比佐志 Tadao
根岸季衣 Kane's daughter
河原崎長一郎 Noboru
茅島成美 Machino
Richard Gere Clark (Kane's Nephew)
Matsue Ono 松本克平 牧よし子 本間文子 Mourner
川上夏代 
音羽久米子 木田三千雄 東静子 
堺左千夫 Mourner
記平佳枝
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