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Dimanche, août 15th, 2010
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When I first saw this film, I felt certain it must have been made in the 1950s. Realizing that Ichihara Etsuko couldn’t have been that old in the 1950s had me confused, and I later found the film was shot in 1989. The director, Imamura Shohei, gave it the feel of an old film not only by shooting in black and white, but also by having the characters act in an old style. As a result the film draws the viewer in as if he were watching the story shortly after the war.

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An ordinary day becomes a gruesome shock for young Yasuko as she makes her way through the city of Hiroshima on a hot August morning. A sudden flash and blast (pika-don) turn a daily routine into a confused nightmare. Commuters burn in street cars where they stand. Clocks stop. A boy is so scarred his own brother can’t recognize him, nor can he remember his own name.

Yasuko’s ordeal doesn’t end even after she flees the flattened inferno of a city for the safety of the countryside. Yes, she apparently escaped without a scratch, but the fact radioactive black rain fell on her as she took a boat across the bay has prospective marriage prospects cautious. Could she also have the radiation sickness that is affecting so many others? Her uncle makes sure she gets a clean bill of health to show doubters she will make a good, healthy wife.

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The most heart-stopping scene (don’t worry, I won’t ruin it by giving you the details) is when Yasuko discovers she does indeed have radiation sickness. Her chances for the good match her aunt and uncle envisioned disappear.

In the countryside of Fukuyama (east of Hiroshima City) reside others affected by the war. Among those with radiation sickness lives a former Imperial Army soldier tormented by memories of the harrowing missions he was ordered to undertake. Yasuko’s compassion for him and her uncle’s acceptance of her inability to marry well lead to the two war-damaged young people finding comfort in marriage together.

This is a micro view of the war and how it affected the film’s subjects, so it is refreshingly free from political commentary. This is historical fiction, so enjoy the story.

Reviewed in earlier editions. Format has implied color but the only thing in color are the subtitles. Subtitles seem to have been rewritten. Here is YouTube trailer,

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Lundi, août 2nd, 2010
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Movie Title: Black Rain
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I’m not sure why this movie is described as a ‘guilty pleasure’. I don’t feel at all bad about liking it. And I do like it, a lot.

For one thing, I like Michael Douglas. I liked him thirty years ago in _The Streets of San Francisco_, I liked him even better after he turned _One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest_ from a great book and a great stage play into a great motion picture, and I’ve kept right on liking him every time he’s gotten himself cast in a stylish, well-scripted film.

And this _is_ a stylish, well-scripted film. It’s every bit as dark as you expect from Ridley Scott, and although there’s a fairly well-defined villain, the ‘heroes’ are morally ambiguous. I like that in a movie.

The reviewers who say Michael Douglas’s character Nick Conklin is an ‘ugly American’ are right, but they seem to have missed the fact that this is part of the point. This film is a fairly ambitious, though not terribly deep, attempt to bring off an East-meets-West theme in what looks superficially like just another buddy-cop movie. The ‘black rain’ of the title is one of the aftereffects of the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it’s the symbolic stand-in for the Western ‘decadence’ bemoaned by the more traditional Nipponese (even the crime bosses).

But that doesn’t mean Japan wins the dramatic argument. On the contrary, the Nipponese cop (played with endearing self-effacement by Ken Takakura) learns a few things from his new cowboy friend ‘Nick-san’ too. (And the karaoke scene with Takakura and Andy Garcia is priceless.)

Kate Capshaw doesn’t really need an excuse to appear in a film, and that’s good, because here she doesn’t really have one. She’s an expatriate American who inexplicably keeps turning up at the center of the action. She gives the film a bit of _Casablanca_-like flavor, but it’s more a matter of mood than anything else.

I won’t tell you anything about the plot except that it involves the Japanese underworld and that it zips along at a fast clip. Don’t look away or you’ll miss something.

The whole thing is rendered most atmospherically, with the sort of dark and brooding edge that I like in a film (and at which Ridley Scott excels). In general I’m not the biggest fan of Hans Zimmer’s scores, but for the most part he’s used pretty effectively here.

This is a first-rate action-adventure thriller, and I don’t feel the slightest bit ‘guilty’ for taking a very great deal of pleasure in it.

I really enjoyed this when I watched it back at the cinema in 1989.Last year I found out that it was available on dvd and made the purchase without prior knowledge of the picture quality.The film still impresses me but I am very much disappointed with the picture quality,which is grainy and has fading color. It’s a pity Paramount has overlooked this film.I am looking forward to seeing a SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION release which includes:an anamorphic widescreen transfer,a Dolby Digital 5.1 EX sound,English subtitle(the current one doesn’t even have this standard feature!),audio commentary with Ridley Scott and/or Michael Douglas,interviews,or other featurettes of the film. What do you say PARAMOUNT ?
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