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This is a 5 page paper reviewing the novel and the film “Black Rain” and discussing its success or failure in artistic merit. “Black Rain” has a unique place in the post-war Japanese and world literature in that it does not focus on the politics surrounding or the immediate events after the atomic bomb on Hiroshima but instead focuses on the human issues and traditional values which were affected by the event for years afterward. Author Masuji Ibuse wrote the novel in 1966 and was not intending on selling the rights to a movie until he met with the pacifist film maker Shohei Imamura who in 1989 managed to make an accurate portrayal of the recollections of survivors as based on the works within Ibuse’s novel. Both the novel and the film are considered to be successful and unique of their humanist and traditionalist views of Japanese life.
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bomb on Hiroshima but instead focuses on the human issues and traditional values which were affected by the event for years afterward. Author Masuji Ibuse wrote the novel in 1966
and was not intending on selling the rights to a movie until he met with the pacifist film maker Shohei Imamura who in 1989 managed to make an accurate portrayal
of the recollections of survivors as based on the works within Ibuses novel. Both the novel and the film are considered to be successful and unique of their humanist and
traditionalist views of Japanese life. Black Rain (Kuroi Ame) a 1966 novel by Masuji Ibuse which was later made into a movie by
the same name directed by Shohei Imamura (1989), is considered by many to be the most aesthetically apolitical comment on the horrific events which occurred after the dropping of the
atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. The novel and movie rather than take a political stance against American politics instead focuses on the Japanese and traditional perspectives of the situation
and how the Japanese people survived the tragedy while still maintaining many of the traditions during a modern crisis (Iwamoto, 1995). Ibuse (1898-1993) is well known for his psychologically sharp
yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other texts on the bombing. Ibuse sets up contrast between the
horror and humour, the destruction and the beauty and other elements which prevailed in the society to give an overall psychological image of the devastation of the bombing (Pegasos, 2002).
Black Rain began as a serial in the magazine "Shincho" in January 1965. Ibuse, who worked in World War II in the Japanese propaganda units, witnessed the end of
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