Black Rain
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Black Rain (1989)

13/05/1989
Drama, History
2h 3m

We do not live only to die.

Overview

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.

  • Shōhei ImamuraDirector, Screenplay
  • Toshirō IshidōScreenplay
  • Original Title

    黒い雨

  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    Japanese

Keywords

  • 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
  • hibakusha

Top Billed Cast

Yoshiko Tanaka

Yoshiko Tanaka

Yasuko

Kazuo Kitamura

Kazuo Kitamura

Shigematsu Shizuma

Etsuko Ichihara

Etsuko Ichihara

Shigeko Shizuma

Masato Yamada

Tatsu

Shoichi Ozawa

Shoichi Ozawa

Shokichi

Norihei Miki

Norihei Miki

Kotaro

Hisako Hara

Hisako Hara

Kin

Tamaki Sawa

Tamaki Sawa

Woman in Ikemoto-ya

Akiji Kobayashi

Akiji Kobayashi

Katayama

Kazuko Shirakawa

Kazuko Shirakawa

Old Woman with White Flag

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