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Black Rain
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.
1989 · Directed by Shōhei Imamura · 123 min · Drama · History · Screenplay in the scene database · 9 frames
Tagline
We do not live only to die.
Crew
- Screenplay: Shōhei Imamura, Toshirō Ishidō
- Cinematography: Takashi Kawamata
- Edited by: Hajime Okayasu
- Music: Tōru Takemitsu
- Produced by: Shigeyuki Endō, Hiroaki Masubayashi, Toshiya Nomura, Hisashi Iino
Cast
- Yoshiko Tanaka as Yasuko
- Kazuo Kitamura as Shigematsu Shizuma
- Etsuko Ichihara as Shigeko Shizuma
- Masato Yamada as Tatsu
- Shoichi Ozawa as Shokichi
- Norihei Miki as Kotaro
- Hisako Hara as Kin
- Tamaki Sawa as Woman in Ikemoto-ya
- Akiji Kobayashi as Katayama
- Kazuko Shirakawa as Old Woman with White Flag
Production
- Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Studios: Hayashibara Group, Imamura Productions, TFC
- Themes: marriage proposal, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, atomic bomb, world war ii, hiroshima, japan, post world war ii, radiation sickness, 1940s, 1950s
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