Black Rain

Part of the Hanabi Japanese Film Festival, running Sept. 1 – 13. Limited festival passes available for access to all films.

Five years after the lethal Hiroshima bomb blast, the head of a household struggles to help his aging niece who, despite a clean bill of health from local doctors, cannot find a husband due to backward societal prejudices facing bomb survivors. Based on the novel of the same name by Masuji Ibuse and directed by Shōhei Imamura—a key figure in the Japanese New Wave and an early assistant to Yasujirō Ozu, this film swept the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards.

Screened in Japanese with English subtitles.