Black Rain (1989) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Black Rain
Year
1989
Running time
125 min.
Country
United States
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
Cinematography
Producer
Genre
Action. Mystery. Thriller | Crime. Yakuza & Triad. Buddy Film
Synopsis
Nick Conklin (Michael Douglas) and Charlie Vincent (Andy García) are two New York cops whose job to escort a vicious assassin back to his native Japan leads the two Americans into Osaka's exotic underworld and straight into the center of a raging, brutal "Yakuza" gangland battle.
Awards
1989: 2 Nominations for Oscar: Best Sound, Sound Effects
1990: Premios de la Academia Japonesa: nominated to Best Foreign Language Film.
Critics' reviews
- "This gripping crime thriller about hardboiled NY cop Michael Douglas tracking a yakuza hood in Osaka, Japan, boasts magnificent lensing and powerfully baroque production design."
- "The movie becomes a triumph of matter over mind. It's a blast of pure sensation, shallow but scintillating, like a great rock melody,"
- "With its teeming Asian landscape, its dark kaleidoscopic palette and its heavily layered composition, it's reminiscent of Blade Runner. But this is an atmosphere that needs Sam Spade, not Dirty Harry."
- "Scott's work is always fascinating to watch, (...) And Douglas now has something heroic about him that enhances, if it doesn't quite transcend, the plot-by- numbers"
- "At its best, Black Rain has the glitzy quality of an extremely long and clever television commercial. One can't be sure what is being sold, but the eye isn't bored"
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