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. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. 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.
Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
When Ridley Scott filmed Black Rain in Japan and got some top players in the Japanese cinema to appear in it, it was at a time when relations between Japan and the USA were tense. Japan was in the midst of an economic boom that got a lot in America quite jealous. Can&#39;t really blame them that much as Japan&#39;s prosperity was due to American protection because Japan spent a pittance on a defense budget as compared to what we spend. When the Japanese boom eventually went bust ironically things got a whole lot better.<br/><br/>Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia are a pair of American cops who arrest a top Yakuza boss right in New York. They&#39;d like to keep him here, but are ordered to extradite him to Japan as a matter of good will, sorely needed in 1989.<br/><br/>Upon landing in Osaka they lose the prisoner and I won&#39;t say how. Garcia&#39;s all for going back to New York and face their music but Douglas wants to get him back. It costs Garcia his life. <br/><br/>Some elements of the Robert Taylor/George Raft police drama Rogue Cop are present here. Douglas is a cop who at a minimum shuts his eyes to corruption and Internal Affairs is on his case. Garcia is relatively new and a Boy Scout. He&#39;s more in line with the Japanese who according to Black Rain just don&#39;t have corruption. It&#39;s all about honor and saving face in their tradition. Douglas teams up with Japanese detective Ken Takahara and they take down a pair of feuding Yakuzas more in an American movie style shootout.<br/><br/>Michael Douglas plays well of both Andy Garcia and Ken Takahara, their scenes have both bite and poignancy. The feuding Japanese Yakuza are played by Tomisaburo Wakayama as the older and Yusaku Matsuda as the younger and more evil and violent. Matsuda was in fact dying of cancer when he took on the role in Black Rain. I suspect a whole lot more doubling than usual was working here.<br/><br/>Black Rain is surely dated now that America and Japan seem to be back on track together again. It&#39;s still a good action film with some fine acting by Michael Douglas and the rest of the cast.
Black Rain is a special movie that I was lucky to see on the big screen. I thought of KenTakakura as an A list actor with extraordinary talent for looking honorable since he is true to himself In my humble opinion. Lets face it in Japan Ken Takakuras character was the hero while the Characters of Douglas and Garcia were viewed as attempted invasions. In film most good guys have an oppo. I really like the Pollack directed sleeper Yakuza film Ken Takakura was in although I haven&#39;t seen it yet. Mr Baseball proved that this Thinker who is a Father to me has staying power on the world stage and the big screen theaters around the world. I read that Ken Takakura has more than 180 loyal Movie cast affectionados. Pardon my bad English spelling please. Sometimes I joke that I am watermarking to prove that I am not a robot. I am proud of my nickname cyborg though and I like to think of myself as important to my Creator. The Black Rain movie soundtrack is quite good. My previous Black Rain review was deleted sadly. The band Undercover sang They try to blame the Created but he cannot be faulted parahrased. At first I tried to speek great truths then great truisms, now I just try to prevent major loops in my thought process. I had so many people tell me I was nothing only my enormous ego from on high kept me believing I was smart with a good personality and amazing analytical ability and deductive reasoning. I would picture complex if then latticeworks of reasoning. May the Creator always favor the Japanese, their genetic codes and their friends worldwide. Thank you to IMDb for supporting the kind of freedom of speech that Ken I believe, Jack F Kennedy and I support. Support IMDb.
In Black Rain, director Ridley Scott and his team pump in so much pyrotechnic razzle-dazzle that the movie becomes a triumph of matter over mind. It's a blast of pure sensation, shallow but scintillating, like a great rock melody, superbly produced, where the music pumps you up even as the lyrics drag you down.
It&#39;s part of the bushido code of conduct that the ancient samurai and the yakuza gangsters adhere to. During the days of the Japanese warlords and the samurai, a dishonorable act carried the punishment of severing one&#39;s own finger or part of. The idea was that a samurai that was missing part of a finger or multiple fingers wouldn&#39;t be able to wield his katana (samurai sword) as effectively. The Japanese word for the act is yubitsume. On August 6th and 9th, 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities. The first, on August 6th, was the western city of Hiroshima, which had been a major Japanese shipping port and industrial production site. The second bomb was dropped on another western city, Nagasaki, three days later when Emperor Hirohito refused to surrender. Following the devastation of those bombings, Hirohito ordered his country&#39;s surrender, ending the United States&#39; war with Japan.<br/><br/>Sugai&#39;s involvement in this chain of events is that he lived in one of those cities – which city is not revealed – as a boy and was there when the bomb was dropped. As he states &quot;I was 10 when the B-29 came. We were underground for three days. When we came up, the city was gone. Then the heat brought rain; black rain.&quot; What Sugai is suggesting is that the pollution from the atomic fallout had somehow turned the rain black. Sugai goes on to say that following the war American values were forced on to his people by the United States, who had agreed to aid in the rebuilding of Japanese society due to the destruction caused not only by the atomic bombings but also from the many other non-atomic bombings of other Japanese cities during the war in the Pacific. The United States became Japan&#39;s occupying force following the war and Japanese citizens like Sugai felt that their cultural and societal identity was slowly being stolen from them as a result of such policies. Sugai&#39;s ultimate plan is to flood the American economy with counterfeit money and reap the benefits of such a crime.
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