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“Black Rain” The movie “Black Rain” discusses many important details about how the Japanese society works. This 1988 movie was about a family who lived in Hiroshima during the time of the bombing. It showed how the radiation sickness that came from the bombing affected the Japanese people. It specifically mentioned the Japanese community during that time, the involvement of the Japanese government, the Japanese culture and history, and it painted a humanistic portrait of the …

…has no choice but to feel the pain that these people felt. There whole lives changed because of this sickness and they were never treated the same by their community. They had flashbacks of that horrible day back in 1945 and had no choice but to look at life differently from that point on. It was a very sad movie but still very good because of the emotion and feelings that came out of “Black Rain.”