黒澤明監督91年の作品「八月の狂詩曲(ラプソディー)」を久しぶりに観ました。戦後45年当時の夏が描かれていましたが、あれから25年。当時まだ元気だった祖母を、以前この映画を観た時に想うことはありませんでしたが、今回主人公のお婆さんと祖母の姿が重なり、涙が溢れました。戦争で結婚後間もなく夫を亡くし、女手一つで子供達を育てた祖母。今は長崎のお墓に祖父と共に眠っています。
It was my second time watching the film"Rhapsody in August ". The first time was around 1992 when this picture was still on the screen. Almost no memory besides Richard Gere was good. But this time, after I've lost my grandma, the leading character of this film; the grand mother Kane reminded me of my grandma. Perhaps she speaks the same dialect with my grandma which is of Nagasaki. They both loved spending time with her grandchildren, and loved her husbands...Few years after when this picture was taken, my grandma lost her husband. Raised in Tokyo, married to a naval officer and moved to Nagasaki. After the war, left with three children to bear, the struggles she has been through were immeasurable.