Rhapsody in August

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.

• atomic bomb
• hydrogen bomb
• long lost relative
• grandmother
• japanese american
• nagasaki, japan
• mourning ritual
• grandmother grandson relationship
• grandmother granddaughter relationship