| Rain Fall | |
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| Directed by | Max Mannix |
| Produced by | Megumi Fukasawa Satoru Iseki |
| Written by | Barry Eisler (novel) Max Mannix (Screenplay) |
| Starring | Gary Oldman Kippei Shiina Kyōko Hasegawa |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
| Cinematography | John Wareham |
| Editing by | Matt Bennett |
| Distributed by | Distribution Workshop (worldwide) Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) G2 Pictures (UK) |
| Release date(s) | April 25, 2009 (Japan) |
| Running time | 111 Minutes |
| Budget | $7,000,000 (estimated) |
Rain Fall is a 2009 Japanese/Australian action thriller film written and directed by Max Mannix. In the film a hitman protects the daughter of one of his victims against the CIA.
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In Tokyo, a minister of public works is rumored to be taking evidence of corruption to a reporter: the CIA, the yakuza, and others want to grab the information and use it to squeeze the government. On the subway trip to meet the reporter, the official is murdered, but it looks like a heart attack. However, no one, including the murderer, can find the flash drive with the evidence. Now the CIA, gangsters, and the city police are searching. The dead official's daughters are in danger: the shadowy John Rain, ex-special forces and perhaps now in league with North Korea, tries to stay one step ahead as he looks for the flash drive and protects one of the daughters
The overall Reception of the film has been mixed to negative. M. Downing Roberts for the Midnight Eye review site said that 'Audiences identify with heroes who are killers because they represent justice or, more often, revenge. Finally, though, Rain's relationship with justice is uncertain. As with many screen hit men, we are invited into his shadow world of murder and intrigue on the basis of a certain fantasy. Fans of big-budget action will likely not be satisfied, but Rain Fall begins, albeit tentatively, to chart the territory for a different sort of thriller. In a future installment, one can hope that it might press further'