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Black Rain (黒い雨, Kuroi ame) is a 1989 Japanese drama film by director Shōhei Imamura, based on the novel of the same name by Masuji Ibuse. The story centers on the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its effect on a surviving family.
Black Rain: Directed by Shôhei Imamura. With Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Shôichi Ozawa. Though it has been five years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Yasuko, her uncle and aunt are forced to deal with the ordeals of the disaster, along with many others like them.
- (4K)
- Drama, War
- Shôhei Imamura
- 1990-02-01
The Multiple award winning Black Rain (Japanese title Kuroi Ame) tells the tale a group of survivors facing the aftermath of the devastation caused by the dropping of the atomic bomb on...
- (14)
- Yoshiko Tanaka
- Shôhei Imamura
- Drama
Kuroi Ame gives a bigger importance to the destruction of the soul than the demolition of urban and rural edifications, so the atomic bomb is the prologue, and then a tremendous collective character study unfolds.
- (4.4K)
- Hayashibara Group, Imamura Productions, TFC
- Shōhei Imamura
With its story centred around the attempts of Shigematsu (Kitamura) and Shigeko (Ichihara) to marry off their niece Yasuko (Tanaka), her blood tainted after the atomic blast that destroyed most of Hiroshima, Black Rain sometimes feels like a hibakusha take on such films as Early Spring.
The atom bomb that detonated over Hiroshima killed thousands of people not only on the stroke but in many years to come with the radioactive black rain that followed the blast. Deprived of hope and joy of life, the radiation sickness patients wait for death.
Black Rain is a film directed by Shôhei Imamura with Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Norihei Miki, Tamaki Sawa .... Year: 1989. Original title: Kuroi ame (Black Rain). Synopsis: The title refers to the radioactive fallout which descended upon ruined city of Hiroshima after the dropping of the first atomic bomb.
