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Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

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Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)
DVDrip | Language: Japanese | Optional subtitles: English, Français
2:02:41 | MKV | H264 | 720x400 | NTSC 23.97fps | Audio: mp4a 160kbps | 1.66 GB
Genre: History | Drama | War

Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima, just after the atomic bomb has dropped. Five years later, Yasuko is living with her aunt and uncle, and her senile grandmother, in a village containing many of the bomb survivors. Yasuko does not appear to be affected by the bomb, but the Shizuma's are worried about her marriage prospects, as she could succumb to radiation sickness at any time.

Extremely powerful film by Imamura which exposes the effects of Hiroshima's bombing, but like the characters, does not dwell obsessively on the event. There is no shock value to this film. That would have been too easy. This is as subtle an expression as you will find, hence heightening the effectiveness.

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

Few films have captured the horror of the atomic explosion over Hiroshima and the cruelty of the bomb's effects as devastatingly as Shohei Imamura's masterful Kuroi Ame. Adapted from the prize-winning novel by Masuji Ibuse, which was in turn adapted from the diaries of Ibuse's friend Shigematsu Shizuma, Kuroi opens with a harrowingly realistic depiction of how, in an instant, a thriving city can become a surrealistic hell of burning buildings, freakish weather, and charred flesh. Shooting in stark black-and-white, Imamura confronts yet rivets the audience with one atomic horror after another, until the viewer is overwhelmed. Suddenly, the film fast-forwards to the tranquility of the immediate post-war era, only to reveal the long-term terror of the bomb. Protagonist Shigematsu suffers from radiation sickness, which renders the seemingly robust middle-aged man weak and without energy; his friends suddenly keel over dead from the disease. Yet, not content with only illustrating the human devastation of the bomb, Imamura focuses with almost equal ferocity on the backward societal prejudices that bomb survivors endure. Five years after the blast, villagers complain about the laziness of the enfeebled bomb survivors, while Shigematsu's niece Yasuko, who escaped Hiroshima without apparent injury, cannot find a husband in spite of clean bill of health. More restrained than such Imamura classics as The Pornographers (1966) and Vengeance is Mine (1979), this film still bears his imprint: a fascination with the fringes of Japanese society; strong-willed, overtly sexual women; and his signature earthy humor. This film, which swept the Japanese Academy Awards and received a prize at the Cannes Film Festival, stands as both a great film by a cinematic master and a searing testament of the atomic age. — Jonathan Crow, allmovie.com

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

The title refers to the radioactive fallout which descended upon ruined city of Hiroshima after the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Young bride-to-be Yoshiko Tanaka has the misfortune to be visiting Hiroshima on the day of the explosion. Incredibly, she is unhurt; she returns to her own village, across the bay from Hiroshima. Unfortunately, her townsmen have been profoundly affected by the "black rain"; over the next five years, the poison in their systems slowly but surely erodes their souls. In a tragic state of denial, Yoshiko's former friends insist that they can't be sick-it must be the girl who is bringing sickness to them. Now a pariah, Yoshiko's life is shattered as surely as if the bomb had disintegrated her upon impact. Director Shohei Imamaura, a onetime assistant to the great Ozu and the director of such Japanese classics as The Insect Woman and The Ballad of Narayama, never sensationalizes his material; the story is effective told in a muted, subdued fashion, allowing the horror to arise from the inner torment of the characters rather than being artificially imposed by camera trickery or "shock" cutting. Based on a novel by Masuji Ibuse, the black-and-white Black Rain won the Japanese equivalent of the Academy Award, along with several other honors. — Hal Erickson, allmovie.com

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

The theory on why director Shohei Imamura shot this 1989 film in black and white is the images –not the least bit gratuitous or sensational– of atomic destruction would be true gruesome to withstand in color. Imamura has not set out to make a film condemning anyone for the war or the decisions that led to its end. America, mentioned directly only once, is alluded to in a newscast about the possibility of our country repeating the nuclear atrocities during the Korean War, but the real point in that is Shigematsu's statement against any type of war. "Human beings learn nothing. They strangle themselves. Unjust peace is better than a war of justice. Why can't they see?" While the film is obviously extremely anti bomb mainly because this weapon has lingering effects like no other that existed in 1945, Imamura and novelist Masuji Ibuse actually do quite the opposite of what you'd expect. They set almost all of the film in 1950 so they can condemn their own country for the way they went about their post bomb "recovery." — Mike Lorefice

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)





Bonus included : Black Rain postface (19mn unseen color alternate ending)
(Japanese audio with optional English subtitles included in the mkv)

Shohei Imamura – Kuroi ame / Black Rain / Pluie noire (1989)



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