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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Director Ridley Scott, who created two of Hollywood's most impactful and stylish adventure thrillers, Alien and Blade Runner, hits the mark again in Black Rain. Academy Award-winner Michael Douglas (Fatal Attraction, Wall Street) and Andy Garcia (Internal Affairs, The Untouchables) play 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. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Actors: | Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Yusaku Matsuda | | Director: | Ridley Scott | | Format: | AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language: | English, Japanese | | Subtitle: | English | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | Paramount | | Run Time: | 125 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | October 10, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 72 reviews |
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 "Gaijin" feeling Mar 10, 2010
Besides the incredible performance delivered both by the American actors and the Japanese ones, this is the kind of movie that should be considered as "cult". If you ever wandered by Japanese streets and places you will feel exactly like Michael "Nick" Douglas and Andy "Charlie" Garcia: talking to native Japanese people is almost impossible, either because they do not really speak any other language or because they pretend not to. The Japanese society is a close kind of environment and "gaijin" people are not welcome if they intend to be anything else than tourists.
Black Rain is a fantastic movie and you need to watch it many times so as to capture all the details it contains in the many aspects of its production.
One of the greatest movies ever! Feb 12, 2010
When I first saw this at my friends house I thought that this was such a cool movie! It has action, romance, butt-kicking, etc everything that is needed in a good movie.
Must have! Jan 30, 2010
What can I say, I love this movie! I've already got the DVD, but I still want to get the Blu-ray version, that said it all. This is the one of the best work from Michael Douglas. And Ridley Scott is still the best Director in Hollywood IMO.
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Black Rain ( Blu-ray review ) Superb transfer of a mediocre Ridley Scott film Oct 29, 2009
What a stunning display of the beauty of high-definition. Most Ridley Scott films are visual extravaganzas and the Blu-ray treatment here is quite special. The sheen and polish of Scott's urban landscapes is a sight to behold. Black Rain is almost like a neo Tokyo, anime version of Blade Runner, only filmed in Osaka! It's pretty amazing just how much the look of Blade Runner was influenced by Asian metropolises and then Blade Runner influenced the look of a lot of anime in return. Black Rain is total cheese, a completely by the numbers American cop movie filled to the brim with excessive cliches and all that the genre implies but it's a masterpiece of art design and production values. It simply reeks of Hollywood excess and gratuitous surfaces polished to perfection. The look of the movie on Blu-ray makes your mouth water if you are a cinema enthusiast. Rare instances from the sleazy 1980s gave us such absolutely stunning and sophisticated urban imagery captured on film and unfortunately all for nothing.
Compare this movie with it's art design predecessor Blade Runner and you'll see just how empty and decadent Black Rain truly is. It's a buddy cop movie made by highly paid Madison Avenue designer types. Jan De Bont is the cinematographer here, ( he went on direct "Speed" and "Twister" ), and he knows exactly how to get that perfect look that is the imprimatur of nearly every Ridley Scott production. All the Ridley trademarks are here in evidence, the smoke emitting from the streets, the endless neon lights, the motorcycles, the reflections off all metallic surfaces, the rain soaked atmosphere. Everything is hip, flashy and beyond decadent. However the plot is basic police story stuff, the characters are cardboard cut outs that the talented cast somehow manage to humanize and the subsequent revenge narrative is all too familiar.
Beyond the stunning high-def visuals, the audio is also very good and the special features are terrific. The actors and the director discuss the shoot and how difficult it was filming in Osaka, Japan with all the rules and regulations governing film production there. Ridley Scott, Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia try to stress how much they care about this movie but it won't convince me or anyone with a brain that this film is nothing more than a gorgeous looking, atmospheric mess. But what a fantastic looking mess! The two Japanese male leads who play counterpoint to the Americans portrayed by Douglas and Garcia are also terrific actors. Ken Takakura as the good cop and Yasuku Matsuda as the villain. Matsuda died shortly after this film wrapped and I suppose Black Rain is as good a vehicle to showcase his talents to the international film world as any foreign actor could hope for. Even Kate Capshaw does a good job in a thankless role as the lone American woman working as a hostess in a nightclub. Amazing that all these talented actors could somehow squeeze some humanity out of such a leaden, bare essentials screenplay.
I can't end without mentioning the musical score by Hans Zimmer which combines ripely melodic electronics mixed with orchestra and a far east flavor. This is one of the best scores of his career. The main song of the movie, "I'll Be Holding On" is also by Zimmer with vocals by Gregg Allman. It's just a big-hearted pop ballad from that gloriously excessive decade called the eighties! Black Rain is a guilty pleasure no doubt but it's no crime once in a while to let your eyes glaze over from such a rich visual tapestry. To be mesmerized by sheer elegance without caring about narrative or anything else. Just beautiful looking moving pictures.
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Black Rain BD Sep 04, 2009
Black Rain is one of those films that gets under your skin. Top-notch acting, and just enough of a skewed plot to really twist it up. Transfer is extremely good-looking for as old a film as it is, and the sound is excellent as well. I recommend this to Michael Douglas and Ridley Scott fans. Enjoy!
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