Black Rain

We do not live only to die.

A meditative, deeply melancholic portrait of a family haunted by atomic trauma, exploring how survivors carry grief and the burden of radiation sickness across decades.

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.