10. The Japanese and Hawaii: "Rhapsody in August"

This film is quite the opposite of "The Family Game". I attribute this to Akira Kurosawa, perhaps the most celebrated director in Japanese Cinema. It describes the attitudes both Japanese and Americans feel towards Pearl Harbor and the use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The older Japanese relatives feel it is wrong to bring up the atrocities of WWII to the American relatives in Hawaii. Yet the younger generation does not understand this. Since they did not experience the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, their view of history is more impartial. It is not until the Japanese meet their American relative that they realize that both sides have wounds that have yet to heal. The belief is still held that Americans have a great disdain over Pearl Harbor. The film shows that both sides must come to grips with the past and rejoice in the lessons learned from such a harsh war.