Shôhei Imamura – Kuroi Ame AKA Black Rain (1989)

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A somber, visually distilled, and deeply affecting portrait of the human toll and uncalculated tragedy of nuclear holocaust. In contrast to Shohei Imamura’s characteristically unrefined, primitivistic, and subversively bawdy cinema, the film is shot in high contrast black and white, creating a spare and tonally muted chronicle of dignity, survival, community, and human resilience. Through recurring literal and figurative images of regression, Imamura conveys a dual meaning, not only in the community’s noble attempt to rebuild Hiroshima and return to a semblance of normal life after the annihilating bombing but also in their collective gradual and systematic erasure from Japanese society through long-term effects of radiation sickness, infertility, cultural (and geographic) isolation, and social stigmatization.

The black rain in the title refers to the combination of ash, radioactive fallout, and water that fell one or two hours after the explosion. There have been other books and films about the dropping of the atomic bomb but none as unique and powerful as this one. Based on a novel by Masuji Ibuse who gathered information from interviews and the diaries of real-life bomb victims, the film depicts how an entire family is affected psychologically as well as physically by the bomb years after the original explosion. It is a horrifying vision but one that resonates with deep compassion for humanity.

Shohei Imamura - (1989) Black Rain.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 2 min
Size: 	2.54 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x552 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 585 kb/s
BPP: 	0.191
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by Jasper Sharp)

https://nitro.download/view/A823D9CF58CE09C/Shohei_Imamura_-_(1989)_Black_Rain.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/D3DBC6F9816CA58/Shohei_Imamura_-_(1989)_Black_Rain.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/963BB89665BCA9B/Shohei_Imamura_-_(1989)_Black_Rain.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English