Black Rain (Japanese film)

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Black Rain

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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 (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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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."

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The film has strong themes of suffering, transience and the uncertainty of the time of one's death.[1]

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