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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThree generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
- Prix
- 5 victoires et 7 nominations au total
Richard Gere
- Clark
- (as Richâdo Gia)
Mieko Suzuki
- Minako
- (as Mie Suzuki)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesAt the top of his career from starring alongside Julia Roberts in Une jolie femme (1990), Richard Gere was earning millions of dollars per picture. Akira Kurosawa's company felt they were unable to pay his salary, to which Gere responded with "I'll work free for Kurosawa." Not wanting to take advantage of the actor, they offered him a modest sum, as well as offering to pay for all his travel expenses, including friends he wanted to bring with him to Japan while he worked. One of those friends included Cindy Crawford.
- Bandes originalesNobara (Heidenröslein)
Lyrics by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (uncredited)
Music by Franz Schubert (as Shûberuto)
Performed by Hibari Jidou Gasshoudan (Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tomoko Ôtakara, Mieko Suzuki and Mitsunori Isaki)
Commentaire en vedette
A beautiful and deeply moving work,it deals with a taboo subject which is rarely treated on the screen.The approach is much different from that of Alain Resnais in "Hiroshima mon amour",and the main reason is that the director is Japanese.Far from Marguerite Duras' verbal logorrhea,Kurosawa lets us in the tragedy through children's eyes,and their simple and naive words.These children,who visit the memorial, only know what the history books tell:almost nothing.
One of the movie's main subject is building some kind of bridge between two generations(a bridge over troubled water,because the adults are rather unsympathetic characters).Kurosawa's granny is universal,she 's the embodiment of suffering,forgiveness and wisdom."Blame it on the war" she keeps on repeating during the whole movie.And her hard-earned peace of mind ,she tries to communicate it to her four grandsons.She does want to see his brother ,now dying,who emigrated to Hawai and made his fortune in pineapples, a long time ago,and his family.The children's fathers are mean little bourgeois,only interested in these American relatives' dough and luxury mansion with pools,the mothers hateful silly geese.None of them can understand the grandmother any more.
So if there's some hope to be found,it can only lie in the relationship old/young,skipping a whole generation,with the exception of minor Richard Gere character.The four children and their granny sitting under a blue moonlight when the adults are talking social promotion and money is beautifully filmed.But it will not delude for long.The last pictures are a real metaphor:sure the road to follow for the youngsters is the grandmother's one,which does not forget the past ,but it's a rocky road,edged with chasms .
One of the movie's main subject is building some kind of bridge between two generations(a bridge over troubled water,because the adults are rather unsympathetic characters).Kurosawa's granny is universal,she 's the embodiment of suffering,forgiveness and wisdom."Blame it on the war" she keeps on repeating during the whole movie.And her hard-earned peace of mind ,she tries to communicate it to her four grandsons.She does want to see his brother ,now dying,who emigrated to Hawai and made his fortune in pineapples, a long time ago,and his family.The children's fathers are mean little bourgeois,only interested in these American relatives' dough and luxury mansion with pools,the mothers hateful silly geese.None of them can understand the grandmother any more.
So if there's some hope to be found,it can only lie in the relationship old/young,skipping a whole generation,with the exception of minor Richard Gere character.The four children and their granny sitting under a blue moonlight when the adults are talking social promotion and money is beautifully filmed.But it will not delude for long.The last pictures are a real metaphor:sure the road to follow for the youngsters is the grandmother's one,which does not forget the past ,but it's a rocky road,edged with chasms .
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Détails
Box-office
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 516 431 $ US
- Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 26 771 $ US
- 22 déc. 1991
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 517 538 $ US
- Durée1 heure 38 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1
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