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Paramount Black Rain (Widescreen, Special Collector's Edition) Blu-ray | 
| Studio: Paramount
Category: Video
Buy Used: $24.00
New (1) Used (4) from $24.00
Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 94357
Languages: English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Media: VHS Tape
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: 22200
ISBN: 0792159799
UPC: 097363222002
EAN: 9780792159797
ASIN: B00001MXXC
Theatrical Release Date: September 22, 1989
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Paramount Black Rain (Widescreen, Special Collector's Edition) Blu-ray
From Oscar(R)-nominated director Ridley Scott ("Gladiator") comes this stylish, star-powered crime thriller that crackles with heart-pounding action and taut suspense. Academy Award(R)-winner Michael Douglas is electrifying as Nick Conklin, a rough-and-tumble NYC detective under investigation for corruption. Ordered to escort a cold-blooded killer named Sato back to his native Japan.Nick and his partner Charlie (Oscar(R)-nominee Andy Garcia) unwittingly deliver Sato into the handsof his own gang. With assistance from a by-the-book Japanese cop (Ken Takakura) and a beautiful club hostess (Kate Capshaw), the American cops chase Sato through Osaka's seamy underworld, as Nick fights to recapture something as important as the criminal he lost: his honor.
Amazon.com essential video
A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Black Rain is a ridiculously entertaining thriller by Ridley Scott (Alien), starring Michael Douglas as a tough New York cop who--along with his partner (Andy Garcia)--goes to Japan to deliver a local mobster. When the latter escapes, Douglas's brand of gonzo crime fighting rubs his Japanese hosts the wrong way. Slick, mechanistic, and absurd, the film is all surface action and attitude (not to mention Scott's incredibly busy, trademark art direction); and one can get lost in the sheer indulgence of it. However, if you can buy Douglas as an iconoclastic lawman, you can buy anything else here, including the notion of Kate Capshaw as a blonde escort highly desired by Japanese businessmen. --Tom Keogh
Amazon.com
A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Black Rain is a ridiculously entertaining thriller by Ridley Scott (Alien), starring Michael Douglas as a tough New York cop who--along with his partner (Andy Garcia)--goes to Japan to deliver a local mobster. When the latter escapes, Douglas's brand of gonzo crime fighting rubs his Japanese hosts the wrong way. Slick, mechanistic, and absurd, the film is all surface action and attitude (not to mention Scott's incredibly busy, trademark art direction); and one can get lost in the sheer indulgence of it. However, if you can buy Douglas as an iconoclastic lawman, you can buy anything else here, including the notion of Kate Capshaw as a blonde escort highly desired by Japanese businessmen. --Tom Keogh
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
 Awesome flick!! July 14, 2008
L. Cambio (N. Hollywood, CA)
There is nothing better than seeing Michael Douglas in trouble! That always makes for a good movie, but kidding aside great story and good acting on behalf of all the actors.
black rain March 1, 2008
Tina S. Mason
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
i bought this blu-ray because i already own the dvd..i was amazed how much sharper the picture was ..and the sound is extremely clear and loud. a great movie to have on blu-ray!!!!
Black Rain At Last February 24, 2008
Antonio Monfermoso (London)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Black Rain at last a good quality transfer, Im sure it does not push the Blue Ray too its uppermost, but this is in my opinion a very underrated film. I think the film is just great and all the stars really make this film Douglas and Gracia really have a bound in this film, and Hans Zimmer
music is fantastic.. If you every come across the bootleg soundtrack of the film since the CD released does not come close to what was written for the film is really superb, what i really liked what's been missing from any other version I have of the film is the extras about the making of Black Rain.. A fantastic film A great buy and best of all god bless
the all region policy this film works on a UK player UNLESS Sony do a nasty with the firmware upgrade.
NY cops in Japan - Cool! February 18, 2008
Raz
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I will spare you the plot details - tons about what happens has already been written. I'll just tell you if what happens, works. In this case... it does, and very successfully.
Put a couple of NYC cops, who are far from being your text-book, right-out of the academy-pristine cops (which seems about right for a couple of NYC detectives), and send them to Japan to deliver and then recover a really bad gangster.
This movie was made at the end of the 80's, but the settings, story line and dialogue is perfect even for 2008. It is an action movie that really has you interested in what is going on and makes you want to get the bad guy, right along with our hero cops.
The pace of the movie is done quite well and Ridley Scott leaves very little on the screen that was unnecessary - even the karaoke bar scene had it's place and was worthwhile. The sense and feel of the movie is very realistic and believable. The thugs scare you and the cops are out to get their man - no matter what. That's what we want in our cops vs. robber movie.
The side plots in this movie work well and never stray from the main action. The whole - is Michael Douglas's character a bad cop on the take, worked for me and I was interested. Kate Capshaw's character was well done and her screen time was good, which was edited enough so that you didn't feel they went overboard with her. The movie does a sweet job by not giving us too much info about the gangsters, and that works quite well for the pacing in the film.
Give Black Rain a look and it will be worth your time. You'll also understand why movie cops put tv cops to shame, for the most part. The Blu-Ray was clean and perfect-o. Exactly what we want out of our hi-def movies.
 Andy Garcia, not Adam Garcia!!! November 30, 2007
Dumb Blonde Reviewing (In my bed)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
I spent the past couple of minutes watching this, thinking that I was going to see the very cute guy - Adam Garcia - from Coyote Ugly. Anything's better than Michael Douglas with a very dodgy haircut. (Very dodgy - it's practically a mullet.) Unfortunately, they share the same surname and the same first initial, but Andy & Adam are two very different people. Both very cute though.
I have to say I'm not Michael Douglas's biggest fan (that would be my mother), but I don't spend every second of his screen time wishing he would go away. I'm not that bad. I can watch him.
The film is mindless entertainment, with an interesting title - I have to say I like the idea of black rain. It's a familiar story - bad guy cop, teamed up with reasonably good guy cop, after a bad guy, thrown into the wrong situation and having to struggle out of it. The wrong situation here is in Japan, where the American cops have no say so in what happens. They have to escort Yasuka Matsuda, playing Sato, (who died not long afterwards), and hand him over to Japanese police. Simple right? Not so. Police officer uniforms no doubt hired from the local fancy dress shop are worn, and Sato is handed straight into the hands of his friendly bad guys. Cue much hysteria when the real cops turn up. Oooops!
The film escalates from here, with rigid cop rules, and an unfamiliar place to try and get the bad guy back in the right hands. Unfortunately, Michael Douglas pretty much plays the same character he played in Basic Instinct, so he's uninteresting in that sense. Andy Garcia was not only refreshing, but probably should have got the lead role. Let what happened to him happen to Michael.
Other reviewers have said this cop movie is very eighties, and very cliched. Yes, that may be so, but have these reviewers watched Lethal Weapon recently? That is the number one eighties movie. But Mel's hair is worse.
Black Rain is surprisingly enough an entertaining movie, not really what I was expecting, but still excellent all the same. Prepare to shed a little tear at Michael behind a wire fence thing.
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