Black Rain
May 13 1989
•2h 3m
•Drama, History
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.
Cast
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Yoshiko Tanaka
Yasuko
Kazuo Kitamura
Shigematsu Shizuma
Etsuko Ichihara
Shigeko Shizuma
Masato Yamada
Tatsu
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