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Black Rain
Directed by Ridley Scott
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way. From TMDB
168 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Oct 31, 2026 · How this works
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Black Rain is a 1989 drama action thriller film, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia and Ken Takakura.
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60 of 168 · most liked firstShohei Imamura (with scenes from his film "Black Rain") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Toru Takemitsu (with scenes from "Crazed Fruit", "Harakiri", "Woman in the Dunes" and "Black Rain" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Ridley Scott, Rome (1989) photograph by Anne Billson. I talked to him over lunch, to tie in with the release of BLACK RAIN (1989) for the short-lived but mostly excellent newspaper The Sunday Correspondent, where I was film critic from 1989 to 1990. He was congenial company IIRC.
positive · AI labelView post →Movie idea: Japan should produce remakes of some of those bananas late 1980s Hollywood movies like Gung Ho and Black Rain, but with the latent economic anxiety (and semi overt xenophobia) in reverse.
neutral · AI labelView post →A great scene from Dandadan. Are you watching? (Ken Takakura is a famous actor from yakuza movies and the film Black Rain that the girl idolizes, and the boy happens to share the name randomly.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Shohei Imamura (with scenes from his film "Black Rain") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →In case you're wondering what the "Black Rain" on Foma 200 film in the 120 format looks like, here is a prime example. I still like this photo. Kodak Duo Six-20. FX-39II for 10 min at 20C. #BelieveInFilm
neutral · AI labelView post →Toru Takemitsu (with scenes from "Crazed Fruit", "Harakiri", "Woman in the Dunes" and "Black Rain" for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching BLACK RAIN (1989) - I think this was peak Michael Douglas hair. Flowing, not too long, bounces a bit when chasing people Had only seen pieces of this when I was a kid. Ridley Scott & Jan de Bont, their only film together 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →Once a high grossing movie at the box office in Japan, now mostly forgotten; unjustly so. This cop thriller was the first Japanese movie to be filmed in the US and features a great cast from both countries; more than a decade before Black Rain. Funnily, Yusaku Matsuda was in both. #filmsky #japan
neutral · AI labelView post →On this night (10th August) in 1991, the Scala Cinema was showing Blade Runner (1982), Black Rain (1989), Someone To Watch Over Me (1987) and The Hunger (1983) as a Ridley, and 1 Tony, Scott all-nighter. I guess Alien, Legend or The Duelists weren’t available.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll be honest, part of me is okay with this if the target is all those chucklefucks who, every July and August, celebrate Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Make them watch this film. and Black Rain. and Barefoot Gen. Again and again and again. Make them watch what happened to those who lived on Bikini Atoll
neutral · AI labelView post →Dark and savage movie that becomes more relentless as time progresses. Great performance by Yusaku Matsuda, whom I've only ever known as Sato from Black Rain. I've seen him in another 4-5 movies this year and he's spectacular in everything. #filmsky #japan #physicalmedia #thebeasttodie #radiance
positive · AI labelView post →Black Rain (1989) I love it when Ridley decides to make a Tony Scott movie. The casting of Miyuki Ono begs the question: has Ridley seen Evil Dead Trap?
positive · AI labelView post →Isn't it odd there have been two movies with the title Black Rain in 1989? However, this one by Shôhei Imamura is about Hiroshima. #NowWatching #FilmSky #Japanuary
neutral · AI labelView post →“Black Rain, my first action movie, was original but only by virtue of my own stupidity. My lack of knowledge made it original.” —Hans Zimmer #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week on Ornate Stairwells, the only movie that @autumnalcoffee.exportaud.io and I have to talk about is Black Rain, which is honestly just a bad movie. But somehow in only having this one bad movie to talk about, we end up fucking on one. So enjoy the energy! Listen now at exportaud.io.
negative · AI labelView post →What a coinkydink! Our next episode will cover a mid-tier Ridley Scott film from the late 80s, BLACK RAIN, in which Stephen Root has an all-too-brief part as a smarmy internal affairs guy. Look for it at our Patreon this Sunday, 2/16! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis
neutral · AI labelView post →Working on Expatriate. Not the biggest fan of the script for Black Rain but boy is it a gorgeous looking movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Juso district Osaka was a filming location in Ridley Scott’s 1989 movie Black Rain, and it just keeps on looking like 1989 #35mm #photography #osaka
neutral · AI labelView post →@timtoon.com and I have a podcast that has been running for more than 200 episodes, and this month we have covered The Earth Day Special from 1990 and Black Rain starring Michael Douglas. This week we will be talking about the giant steampunk spider movie, Wild Wild West. Follow us! @haveyouseen.us
neutral · AI labelView post →The folks at Foma have tried to explain the "Black Rain" by saying that it results from stress on the a delicate emulsion from film transport mechanisms. There isn't a much more stress-free film transport mechanism than hand cranking on my Duo Six-20 and using the red windows.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s Film Selection🎬🎥🎞️: Ridley Scott’s 1989 “Black Rain”. Michael Douglas & Andy Garcia are great as a pair of American Police Detectives caught in the middle of a Japanese Crime War. A great take on the “fish out of water” genre.
positive · AI labelView post →That thing when your buddy Jed Ayres surprises you with the movie novelization of BLACK RAIN as a care package & you start wondering who you can rope into doing a dramatic reading of it with you on the pod. ("911, babe, 911!") Note: We covered the film in Watch With Jen S4: E28.
neutral · AI labelView post →Executive Decision & Black Rain get mentioned so often by me that they’ve both become punchlines by this point, lol, but yeah, any movie where Joe Morton & Oliver Platt save the day to rocks.
neutral · AI labelView post →Godzilla VS Biollante, a beautiful film. feels properly *1989* too, like Batman and Black Rain. Tarantino talked for years of making a film about living in Tokyo under the threat of Godzilla & they do it here perfectly: people eating in the Godzilla memorial restaurant, built in his footprint
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2025FilmChallenge / #Bales2025MovieChallenge #FilmSky July 6 – A movie that shows people at an airport The plane has just arrived in Japan proper! 🎞️ BLACK RAIN 📋 boxd.it/24NY
neutral · AI labelView post →#BlackRain vs #Bladerunner #movie, #80s. They are the same movie. 15/15 - E.O.F.
neutral · AI labelView post →Look, Black Rain is a corny garbage movie, but how dare you imply that he uses anything except the raw rock n roll power of an '80s renegade cop to beat the bad guy
negative · AI labelView post →I just watched this 80's movie with Michael Douglas called "Black Rain," wherein he travels to Japan and takes on the local Yakuza with his hardboiled American wiles. Wasn't anything special. In fact, the fact that it was so unremarkable makes it really disappointing! It's 80's Japan, cmon!
negative · AI labelView post →I went into Black Rain expecting a cheesy 80s action movie. However, it exceeded my expectations. This is Michael Douglas teaming up with Golgo 13 going up against the inspo for Spike Spiegel. It’s better than it has any right to be. Still wished it had a city pop soundtrack…
positive · AI labelView post →Every time I come across a new image from BLACK RAIN, it makes me want to strangle that movie more! Oooh, look at little tough motorcycle-riding-get-partner-killed hairsprayed buffoon! Grr! The director & star have variations on that same hairdo! Be off, be off with you! 🤦♀️
negative · AI labelView post →#BlackRain and #Bladerunner are the same #80s #movie - a thread. Bear with me. Note the image descriptions. 1/
neutral · AI labelView post →as a Japanese lit and film major, seeing a thumbnail Grave of the Fireflies and or my copy of Black Rain (post-bombing accounts) shakes me to my core everytime
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you watched? "White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an HBO documentary film directed and produced by Steven Okazaki."
neutral · AI labelView post →Black Rain was a Japanese Panic movie???? Oh apparently I was thinking of Black Rains, a Japanese novel about a man and his daughter who survive Hiroshima.
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s a dark horse contender I know, but I humbly submit Andy Garcia’s “Black Rain” karaoke scene for consideration in the category of “coolest anyone has ever looked in a movie”
positive · AI labelView post →These motorcycle gangsters need swords! Has no one watched #BlackRain? #MondayActionMovie #Riot1996
neutral · AI labelView post →That’s exactly what I was thinking. I’d put ALIEN up there as possibly my favourite film of all time. Blade Runner the definition of style. Thelma & Louise, The Martian, and on. But there’s also Black Rain, Exodus, Body of Lies, A Good Year & GI Jane. So, so many stinkers.
negative · AI labelView post →No way a movie this foul, dark and dank, shady, mean, and racially dubious should be this entertaining but these are the facts... My ★★★½ review of Black Rain on Letterboxd boxd.it/afXNdV
positive · AI labelView post →I was watching some action films these last days Black Rain: One of the best 80s action films and Hans Zimmer soundtrack Death Sentence: Revenge and Kevin Bacon POW The Escape: Another low budget action film starring David Carradine, so bad it's good
positive · AI labelView post →730) Black Rain (1989) #NowWatching on Hoopla #MutantFam #FilmSky #BlackRain
neutral · AI labelView post →When I saw him in Black Rain, the Ridley Scott movie, I was like WTF. Even made it to Hollywood. 🤣 Saeki from 🌹 was in that too btw lol.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm still reeling from seeing Imamura's Black Rain on Sunday. It's one of the more disturbing films. Captures a trauma so intense that it freezes in time everyone impacted. Including the movie itself, which (made in the late 80s) convincingly recreates the aesthetics of 50s Japanese melodrama!
positive · AI labelView post →Movie re-boot: Dr. Zhivago Under Black Rain
neutral · AI labelView post →In 1989, Garcia was in Japan shooting Ridley Scott’s Black Rain, a film about two NYC cops pulled into the yakuza underworld. A drunken night with the Sumiyoshi crime clan ended at near dawn with Garcia performing yubitsume, the ritual removal of part of a digit. Worse, it was the wrong finger!
neutral · AI labelView post →Star Trek (2009) 9/10 This is way better than Plankton: The Movie (2025) and Black Rain (1989) Don’t you agree?
negative · AI labelView post →REGRETTING YOU mostly hits the beats you want, has a fantastic Allison Williams performance, and the film-school-bound teen has posters of BLACK RAIN and ELIZABETHTOWN in his bedroom, so I found a lot to love, but bafflingly they cut the line that explains the title of the film????
neutral · AI labelView post →change a movie by adding a word Singing In The Black Rain
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a film with black or white in the title. #FilmSky 📽️ Black Rain | 1989
neutral · AI labelView post →(17/61) “incidents where time neither moves clockwise nor counterclockwise. It remains paralyzed as if in a stupor, as it was in the case of the clock in Shōhei Imamura's film Black Rain.” —Don Mee Choi (Mirror Nation) Wave Books #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of Black Rain #filmsky boxd.it/9GohMT
positive · AI labelView post →Black Rain is a fascinating movie that feels so incredibly close to something that I would like more but ends up being just kinda mid.
neutral · AI labelView post →Please tell me you actually watched the Shohei Imamura film, also from 1989, also set in Japan, and also called "Black Rain." "I kept waiting for Andy Garcia to show up, but it was just traumatized villagers coping with post-war despair!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Mine is Black Rain, which I'd not even heard of and is some sort of cop/yakuza action movie. Not too encouraging.
negative · AI labelView post →Hmm, true, it seems it’s been maybe overshadowed by the uniqueness of the atomic bombs? Akiyuki Nosaka’s Grave of the Fireflies comes to mind, also a Ghibli movie. Iirc that was about the firebombings im Kobe. And I think Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse mentions them at least. The Makioka Sisters too.
neutral · AI labelView post →Since seeing Gladiator 2 yesterday I’ve had the urge to watch the Ridley Scott I haven’t seen. This morning it was Legend (1985) & now it’s currently Black Rain (1989) #Letterboxd #Film
positive · AI labelView post →Final JFF film of powerful Imamura series at ACMI tonight. Black Rain. Hiroshima horrors, and post Hiroshima radiation sickness, suffered by a family. This 1988 film deliberately done in the B&W style of 1950s Ozu. The devastation has a lot of contemporary resonance.
neutral · AI labelView post →Do you really think that Oppenheimer (which I found insufferably pretentious) is the best reckoning with the horrors of the atomic bomb? If you look to Japanese language sources there is for a start the 1989 film by Shohei Imamura, Black Rain … currently screening on Kanopy in the US
neutral · AI labelView post →Gonna sidebar into 1989 first to rewatch Black Rain. Ridley Scott film with Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, ken Takakura, and Kate Capshaw? Yes, please.
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