Japan, August 1945. At the time of the dropping of the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, young Yasuko is travelling on a ferry to her uncle's home. Radioactive black rain deluges the stricken city.
Articles on Kuroi ame (Black Rain)
Keiko Takioto Miller,
Yuichi and Jizõ in Black Rain: Imamura's Phenomenological Attempt to Render a Hiroshima Wormhole Experience Among His Audience, in: Matthew Edwards (ed.), The atomic bomb in Japanese cinema, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2015