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 in Japan. If you were there in the late 80s, 'Black Rain' is a time capsule for that moment where it was just common knowledge in the west that the future was all about Japan economically, a notion that was met with equal parts fascination and fear ('suppose they hold a grudge over the nukes?'). I am not a thriller fan and quite frankly avoid suspence as I have enough in my own life. Founded in 2009 with a benchmark to only manufacture weapons we would personally be proud to own and operate. I have never understood why this film received so little acclaim. Black Rain -The 1989 Action / Adventure movie featuring Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia at the award winning 80s Movies Rewind. Black Rain location: The ‘Osaka’ house of the Japanese mob boss: the Ennis House, Glendower Avenue, Silverlake, Los Angeles . Their laws. It's a vast, dingy, polluted and cheerless metropolis, with hideous neon advertisements climbing up into the sulfurous skies. It's a vast, dingy, polluted and cheerless metropolis, with hideous neon advertisements climbing up into the sulfurous skies. Black Rain (1989) R | 125 min | Action , Crime , Thriller Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan. Black Rain Ordnance, Inc. is a precision firearms manufacturer specializing in the modern sporting rifle design. But Black Rain totally engaged me from the very beginning with its truly magnificent musical editing to its truly magnificent cinematography. With Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw. Down below where the people live, there are nightclubs like burrows, where evil men plot and scheme. Rent Black Rain (1989) starring Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia on DVD and Blu-ray. The grim specter of Osaka dominates "Black Rain" the same way Gotham City looms over "Batman."
The house of the mob chief isn’t a Japanese location at all, but at Los Feliz in Los Angeles. Black Rain subtitles. The grim specter of Osaka dominates "Black Rain" the same way Gotham City looms over "Batman." AllMusic Review by Tom Demalon The first half of the soundtrack to Ridley Scott's Black Rain is a cobbled-together collection of songs that really have little to do with the movie (something that had become the norm during the latter half of the '80s). It's a vast, dingy, polluted and cheerless metropolis, with hideous neon advertisements climbing up into the sulfurous skies. 'Black Rain' was there to capitalize on this in full-force, with Ridley Scott presenting Japan as though it had already reached his dystopian vision of 'Blade Runner' in real-life, and all the locals being so gosh-darned exotic and inscrutable.