Black Rain (1989) Kuroi ame
Black Rain (1989)
DVDRip | AVI | 688x368 | XviD @ 1504 Kbps | 117 min | 1,40 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs (srt): English, French, Spanish
Genre: Drama, War
DVDRip | AVI | 688x368 | XviD @ 1504 Kbps | 117 min | 1,40 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs (srt): English, French, Spanish
Genre: Drama, War
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Writers: Masuji Ibuse (novel), Shôhei Imamura
Stars: Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara
Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima, just after the atomic bomb has dropped. Five years later, Yasuko is living with her aunt and uncle, and her senile grandmother, in a village containing many of the bomb survivors. Yasuko does not appear to be affected by the bomb, but the Shizuma's are worried about her marriage prospects, as she could succumb to radiation sickness at any time.
IMDB - 26 wins
It infuriates me no end that, now and forever, I will have to identify this movie (which I consider a masterpiece, and I don't use that word lightly) with the qualifier "Not the Michael Douglas movie!" Not only are the titles the same, but they refer to the same thing- the radioactive fallout that rained upon the survivors of the first nuclear bombings. In Imamura's film, this is no cheap metaphor; the whole movie is about the fallout, physical and emotional, from Hiroshima and the war itself. As the deterioration of a couple and their grown niece becomes more grimly clear, the ironic imagery becomes more potent, from the old clock that is reset each night to the stone gods that gradually pile up outside the heroine's door. (These, in turn, are carved by a shellshocked veteran who is compelled, in a series of tragicomic episodes, to attack anything with a motor that approaches the town.) The bombing day itself is shown in piecemeal flashbacks that are coolly horrifying. Yet "Black Rain" ("NtMDm!") can be watched, even repeatedly, because of Imamura's compassion for his characters. I repeat: a masterpiece.
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Black Rain (1989) Kuroi ame
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