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Black Rain
JAPAN · 1989

Black Rain

Shohei Imamura
atomic bombing nuclear radiation post-war trauma family survival social stigma
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Synopsis

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.

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