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1987
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Black Rain. The grim specter of Osaka dominates "Black Rain" the same way Gotham City looms over " Batman ." It's a vast, dingy, polluted and cheerless metropolis, with hideous neon advertisements climbing up into the sulfurous skies.
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Black Rain. New York City policemen Nick (Michael Douglas) and Charlie (Andy Garcia) witness a murder in a bar and quickly apprehend the assailant. The killer, named Sato (Yusaku Matsuda), is a...
- (24)
- Ridley Scott
- R
- Michael Douglas
"Black Rain" is the new film by Japan's great director, Shohei Imamura, who shoots in beautifully textured black and white to tell the story of survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb who were contaminated by the fallout.
Black Rain: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw. Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
- (60K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Ridley Scott
'Black Rain' Synopsis: Two New York City police officers arrest a member of the Yakuza and must escort him back to Japan. Once there, he escapes, and the two police officers find themselves dragged deeper and deeper into the Japanese underworld. 'Black Rain' is amongst Ridley Scott's Most Accomplished Works To Date.
The film holds a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 24 reviews with the consensus: "Black Rain has its fair share of Ridley Scott's directorial flair, but its paint-by-numbers story never rises above genre conventions." [26] On Metacritic, it has a score of 56% based on reviews from 18 critics. [27]
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.
