The next day, Matsumoto confronts them over the theft, which has been subsequently reported in America. Nick joins a police raid without permission and takes a few $100 bills from the crime scene. Through her, Nick discovers Sato is fighting a gang war with a notorious mob boss, Sugai, and traveled to New York to disrupt Sugai's counterfeiting scheme. Nick also makes contact with an American nightclub hostess, Joyce, who explains that Nick and Charlie represent American inefficiency and stupidity to the Japanese. While they have dinner one night, Nick behaves rudely and offends Matsumoto while Charlie attempts to be more polite. They are joined by local police detective Masahiro Matsumoto. Nick convinces the Osaka police to allow them to observe the investigation, though their weapons are confiscated. When they arrive in Osaka, they surrender Sato to the Japanese police, only to discover that they were duped by impostors and that Sato has escaped. Though angered that Sato will not be prosecuted in the US, Nick agrees to escort him Nick's captain believes this will keep him from causing more trouble and exacerbating the already biased Internal Affairs investigation. They learn that the suspect's name is Sato, whom Nick and Charlie are told will be extradited to Osaka and given to the police there. Nick and Charlie chase and arrest the suspect after he nearly kills Nick. Nick's suspicions are validated when another Japanese man enters the restaurant, seizes a small package at gunpoint, kills two people, and leaves. Nick, who has financial difficulties, is divorced from his wife, who has custody of their two children.Īt a restaurant, Nick and his longtime partner Charlie Vincent observe two Japanese men meeting with Mafia gangsters. Nick Conklin is a New York City police officer facing possible criminal charges Internal Affairs believes Nick was involved with his partner, who was caught taking criminal money in a corruption scandal. In the years since, the film has become a major cult film and has been widely praised.īlack Rain was also a huge box office hit with grossing over $134 million worldwide in front of a production budget of $30 million, and was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Sound and Best Sound Editing. Upon release, the film received generally mixed to positive reviews from critics, which praised the performances, action sequences, Hans Zimmer's musical score, direction and editing but criticized the screenwriting, clichéd story and lack of character development. Once there, he escapes, and the two officers find themselves dragged deeper and deeper into the Japanese underworld.īlack Rain was released by Paramount Pictures on September 22, 1989. The film focuses on two NYPD officers who arrest a member of the Yakuza and must escort him back to Japan.
It stars Michael Douglas, Andy García, Ken Takakura, and Kate Capshaw and features Yūsaku Matsuda (in his final film role before his death that year) and Shigeru Kōyama. Black Rain is a 1989 American action thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Craig Bolotin and Warren Lewis.