'At a time when the dispersion of information is more important than ever, it’s very unsettling that they were either unaware of the gigantic fire in their own city, or didn’t feel it was necessary to mention while people online were speculating about mass-cremations and North Korean missiles,' they added. One SoraNews24 reporter said: It doesn’t explain why Hasuda City never acknowledged this on their website. 'I think it was caused by a fire in the area,' said another. 'I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but there was a fire in the area that same day,' one person wrote. Other speculation about the fire's link to the black rain also appeared online. 'It’s pretty easy to see how that much smoke could mix in with and dye much of the downwind precipitation black,' SoraNews24 said. It was the blaze, at what is thought to be a large commercial building, that was speculated to be the cause of the black rain. It later emerged that a 'gigantic' fire had broken out in Hasuda around the time of the rainfall. One of these victims recollected that he “was three years old at the time of the bombing.A collection of black bubbles on a silver vehicle vent, caught on camera by a Saitama citizen Throughout the film, the story of the consequences of the bombing of Hiroshima are portrayed in graphic detail, with journals and firsthand accounts of the victims of the Hiroshima atomic bombing in order to shed light on how terrible nuclear weapons can be for innocent civilians. Shigematsu watches the departing ambulance, hoping for a rainbow to appear which would indicate that she will recover. Shortly after, Yasuko, already suffering from a tumor, starts losing her hair and is sent to the hospital. When Yuichi's mother asks for Shigematsu's approval of her son marrying Yasuko, he is indignant at first because of Yuichi's mental illness, but later agrees. Yasuko starts feeling close to Yuichi, a young man from the neighbourhood who is suffering from a war trauma. Shigematsu witnesses his friends, all hibakusha suffering from radiation sickness, die one after another, while also his, his wife's and niece's health is slowly deteriorating. Yasuko eventually accepts her situation and decides to stay with her uncle's family, even when her father, who re-married, offers her to live in his house. Yet all prospects' families withdraw their proposal when they hear of Yasuko's presence in Hiroshima on the day of the bombing, fearing that she might become ill or be unable to give birth to healthy children. As she has long reached the age when a woman should get married by tradition, Shigematsu and Shigeko try to find a husband for her. Their route is marked by ruins, scattered corpses, and severely burnt survivors.ĥ years later, Yasuko lives with her uncle, aunt and her uncle's mother in Fukuyama. After Yasuko is re-united with her uncle and aunt, the trio heads for the factory where her uncle works to escape the spreading fires. She returns to the city by boat and gets into a black rain, a fallout resulting from the bombing. Half-orphan Yasuko, who lives with her uncle Shigematsu and his wife Shigeko in Hiroshima, is in the middle of moving family belongings to the house of an acquaintance in the vicinity, when the atomic bomb is dropped. The story centers on the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its effect on a surviving family. Black Rain ( 黒い雨, Kuroi ame) is a 1989 Japanese drama film by director Shōhei Imamura, based on the novel of the same name by Masuji Ibuse.
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