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Black Rain
Why this pick
A hard-edged American outsider enters Osaka’s underworld, combining cross-cultural distrust, yakuza pressure, and sleek nocturnal city imagery with a similarly deliberate crime-thriller mood.
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MOVIE1974 1h 52m JPN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Retired detective Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) is called upon by an old friend, George Tanner (Brian Keith). Tanner has been doing business with a ''yakuza'' gangster, Tono (Eiji Okada), who has kidnapped Tanner's daughter to apply pressure in a business deal involving the sale of guns. Tanner hopes that Kilmer can rescue the girl using his Japanese connections.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Brian Keith
George Tanner
Herb Edelman
Wheat
James Shigeta
Goro
Christina Kokubo
Hanako
Louis Chirillo
Louise
William Ross
Tanner's Guard
Ken Takakura
Tanaka Ken
Robert Mitchum
Harry Kilmer