“Kuroi Ame (Black Rain)” Dir. Shohei Imamura

 

Kuroi-Ame (Black Rain) 1989

©Imamura Productions

“I’m not to live to die. War’s continued living in my body.”

©Imamura Productions

A Japanese legend director, Imamura Shohei, a two-time Cannne Palm d’or winner whom Martin Scorsese called “my master,” created this black and white film based on a novel by Ibuse Masuji. The film draws aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bomb and the life of Yasuko and her family’s struggle caused by the fall of radioactive “black rain.”

The film was shot in Bizen city, Okayama prefecture.

This special screening will be on 16mm vista-size (wide-screen) presented by Imamura Production.

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