24 images – Black Rain

Special screening in collaboration with 24 images for the release of their new issue “Panique! Le cinéma catastrophe dans tous ses états”

This unforgettable tale of the atomic age swept the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards, and is the harrowing Eastern equivalent to American works like TESTAMENT and THE DAY AFTER. 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. (AGFA)