Black Rain
Pluie noire
Shoheï Imamura
6 August 1945, the first atomic bomb wipes out Hiroshima. Yasuko, on a ferry going to see her uncle and aunt, gets covered in sticky, radioactive "black rain". Five years later, Yasuko is of marrying age, but there is a rumour going around that she witnessed the explosion...
With : Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Yoshiko Tanaka , Shoichi Ozawa, Tomie Ume, Norihei Miki, Hisako Hara, Shoji Kobayashi, Keisuke Ishida
Screenplay : Shohei Imamura, Toshiro Ishido (d'après l'oeuvre originale de Masuji Ibuse)
Image : Takashi Kawamata
Sound : Kenichi Benitani
Editing : Hajime Okayasu
Decors : Hisao Inagaki
Music : Toru Takemitsu
Screenplay : Shohei Imamura, Toshiro Ishido (d'après l'oeuvre originale de Masuji Ibuse)
Image : Takashi Kawamata
Sound : Kenichi Benitani
Editing : Hajime Okayasu
Decors : Hisao Inagaki
Music : Toru Takemitsu
Production : Imamura Productions, Hayashibara Group, Shinsha Film
Distribution: Les Films Sans Frontières
Distribution: Les Films Sans Frontières
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Masuji Ibuse, the film focuses on the victims of the atom bomb, who became the "Hibakusha", a word coined especially for the occasion. Physical victims, lacking appropriate treatment, they were the victims of discrimination in their professional and private lives. Isolated from social rituals through fear of the ‘flash'". This is the isolation that Yasuko suffers, an emblem of a lost generation. "Through the marginalisation of a Hibakusha family, there is the indelible mark of a nuclear drama impacting both the individual body and the social body, it is the proclamation of the of a historic event in a personal history" (Jean-Marc Génuite).