Kuroi Ame (Original title)Black Rain (Alternative title)
Date: 1988 (Copyright)Country: JapanDirector: Shohei Imamura
Synopsis: Aftermath of the hiroshima bombing.
Genres: Horror, War
Subject: Hiroshima
Releases
Date: 13 May 1989Country: JapanRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 123 mins Length: 11028 FeetDialogue (original): Japanese
Date: 29 June 1990Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 123 mins Length: 11028 FeetDialogue (original): Japanese / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: Artificial Eye Film Company
Date: November 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 123 mins Dialogue (original): Japanese / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 1988 (Copyright)Country: JapanDirector: Shohei Imamura
Synopsis: Aftermath of the hiroshima bombing.
Genres: Horror, War
Subject: Hiroshima
Releases
Date: 13 May 1989Country: JapanRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 123 mins Length: 11028 FeetDialogue (original): Japanese
Date: 29 June 1990Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 123 mins Length: 11028 FeetDialogue (original): Japanese / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: Artificial Eye Film Company
Date: November 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 123 mins Dialogue (original): Japanese / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
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Production Company: Imamura Productions, Production Company: Hayashibara Group, Production Company: TFC - Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, Production Company: Toei, Executive Producer: Shohei Imamura, Producer: Hisa Iino, Production Manager: Kunihide Hiramasu, Production Supervisor: Yasushi Matsuda, Assistant Director: Kitaka Tsukino, Assistant Director: Takashi Miike, Assistant Director: Nobuaki Ito, Screenplay: Shohei Imamura, Screenplay: Toshiro Ishido, Based on the novel by: Masuji Ibuse, Director of Photography: Takashi Kawamata, Lighting: Yasuo Iwaki, Assistant Photographer: Masashi Chikamori, Assistant Photographer: Mazakazu Oka, Assistant Photographer: Junichi Watanabe, Editor: Hajime Okayasu, Art Director: Hisao Inagaki, Set Decorator: Akira Kanda, Yuichi's Stone Carvings: Yoichi Shimizu, Make-up: Shigeko Igawa, Special Make-up: Isao Haruyama, Title Calligraphy: Hirohide Watanabe, Music/Music Conductor: Toru Takemitsu, Music Performed by: Tokyo Concert, Sound Recording: Senichi Benitani, Sound Effects: Masatoshi Saito, Dialect Adviser: Shigeko Ohara
Cast
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Yoshiko Tanaka (Yasuko), Kazuo Kitamura (Shigematsu Shizuma), Etsuko Ichihara (Shigeko Shizuma), Shoichi Ozawa (Shokichi), Norihei Miki (Kotaro), Keisuke Ishida (Yuichi), Hisako Hara (Kin), Masa Yamada (Tatsu), Tamaki Sawa (middle-aged woman in Ikemoto-ya), Shoji Kobayashi (Katayama), Kazuko Shirakawa (old woman with white flag), Kenjiro Ishimaru (Aono), Mayumi Tateishi (Fumiko of Ikemoto-ya), Taiji Tonoyama (old priest), Fujio Tsuneta (40-year old man with burns), Toshie Kusunoki (Kane), Reiko Nanao (Rui), Satoshi Iinuma (Takamaru), Toshihiko Miki (Factory Foreman Fujita), Yohachi Fuji (cab driver), Sabu Kawahara (Kanemaru), Mitsunori Fukamizu (Nojima), Noboru Mitani (post office clerk), Shuji Otaki (Dr Fujita), Isayoshi Yamazaki (young Yakuza), Mari Kamei (nurse), Tatsuya Irie (young man), Kazue Minami (first village woman), Takaomi Miura (boy), Hiromi Yasui (second village woman), Toru Iwasaki (Nojima's stepfather), Nobuko Tani (Nojima's stepmother), Shinichi Hibino (Dr Ando), Tessui Tada (Buddhist monk), Toshiko Yokota (woman throwing roof tiles), Yoshiro Hori (wood seller), Hitomi Ishihara, Junko Hori (woman of the Nojima family), Tetsuhiko Miyoshi (Takeo Takamaru), Kazuko Kawakami (Takamaru's second wife), Junko Takahashi (middle-aged woman at station)