Black Rain (Japanese film)
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| Directed by | Shohei Imamura |
| Produced by | Hisa Iino |
| Written by | Ibuse Masuji (story) Toshiro Ishido |
| Starring | Yoshiko Tanaka Kazuo Kitamura |
| Music by | Toru Takemitsu |
| Cinematography | Takashi Kawamata |
| Editing by | Hajime Okayasu |
| Distributed by | Hayashibara Group Imamura Productions Tohokushinsha Film Co |
| Release date(s) | 1989 |
| Running time | 123 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Black Rain (黒い雨 Kuroi ame) is a 1989 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura and based on the novel of the same name by Ibuse Masuji. The events are centered on the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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[edit] Plot
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The film moves between Shizuma Shigematsu's journal entries about Hiroshima in 1945, following the dropping of the atomic bomb, and the present, 1950, when Shigematsu and his wife Shigeko are the guardians for their niece Yasuko and charged with finding her a husband (she has been declined three times due to concerns over her having been in the "black rain" fallout). As the story progresses, Shigematsu sees more and more fellow hibakusha, his friends and family, succumbing to radiation sickness and Yasuko's prospects for marriage become more and more unlikely, as she forms a bond with a poor man named Yuichi, who carves jizo and suffers a form of post-traumatic stress disorder where he attacks passing motor vehicles as "tanks."
[edit] Cast
- Yoshiko Tanaka as Yasuko
- Kazuo Kitamura as Shigematsu Shizuma
- Etsuko Ichihara as Shigeko Shizuma
- Shoichi Ozawa as Shokichi
- Norihei Miki as Kotaro
- Keisuke Ishida as Yuichi
- Hisako Hara as Kin
- Masato Yamada as Tatsu
- Taiji Tonoyama
[edit] Analysis
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The film has strong themes of suffering, transience and the uncertainty of the time of one's death.[1]
[edit] Awards
- Wins
- Japanese Academy Awards 1990: Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Film, Best Lighting, Best Music Score, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress
- Blue Ribbon Award 1990: Best Actress
- Cannes Film Festival 1989: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention, Technical Grand Prize[2]
- Flanders International Film Festival Ghent 1989: Georges Delerue Prize, Golden Spur
- Hochi Film Awards 1989: Best Actress
- Kinema Junpo Award 1990: Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film
- Mainichi Film Concours 1990: Best Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Film
- Sant Jordi Awards 1991: Best Foreign Film
- Nominations
- Japanese Academy Awards 1990: Best Art Direction, Best Sound
- Cannes Film Festival 1989: Palme d'Or[2]
- Independent Spirit Awards 1991: Best Foreign Film
[edit] References
- ^ Tachibana, Reiko (November 8, 1998). Seeing Between the Lines: Imamura Shohei's Kuroi Ame (Black Rain). Literature Film Quarterly. Archived from the original on 2008-06-18. http://web.archive.org/web/20080618212757/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_199801/ai_n8769432. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
- ^ a b "Festival de Cannes: Black Rain". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/225/year/1989.html. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
[edit] External links
- Black Rain at the Internet Movie Database
- "黒い雨 (Kuroi ame)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1989/dm001010.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-19.
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- Japanese-language films
- 1989 films
- Japanese films
- 1980s drama films
- War drama films
- World War II films based on actual events
- Films about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Films directed by Shohei Imamura
- Films set in Hiroshima
- Films shot in Hiroshima
- Films based on novels
