Black Rain
Action, Crime, Drama
Paramount Pictures  (1989) 125 mins R

6.4 (12,519 votes)
Academy Award - winner Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia 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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Cast and Crew
Michael Douglas  ......  Nick
Andy Garcia  ......  Charlie
Ken Takakura  ......  Masahiro
Kate Capshaw  ......  Joyce
Yusaku Matsuda  ......  Sato
Shigeru Kôyama  ......  Ohashi (as Shigeru Koyama)
Director  .....  Ridley Scott
Producer  .....  Stanley R. Jaffe; Sherry Lansing
Writer  .....  Craig Bolotin; Warren Lewis
Notes
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: Towards the end of the film, in the section where Nick and Sato are fighting. Sato pushes Nick onto the bike wheel, and then they cut to Sato punching the ground. In the following shot you see Nick grimacing and in the background you see a blonde haired guy wearing a green tracksuit type top quickly duck behind a tree. (more)

Trivia:
Director Trademark: [Ridley Scott] [score]Hans Zimmer and Ridley Scott collaborated for the first time in this movie. (more)

Filming Locations:
1000 N. Crescent Drive, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (more)

Quotes:
Joyce: Because you could get me killed. You see, there's a war going on here, and they don't take prisoners.
Nick Conklin: What are you talking about?
Joyce: It's between Sato and an old crime boss named Sugai.
Nick Conklin: Who else knows about this war?
Joyce: Counting you and me?
[beat]
Joyce: Eleven million.
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 nomination (more)