I Come with the Rain (2008)

Director:

Anh Hung Tran

Writer:

Anh Hung Tran (writer)

Release Date:

6 June 2009 (Japan)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot:

Ex-Los Angeles cop turned private eye travels to Hong Kong in search of the missing son of a billionaire.

Cast

Josh Hartnett	...	Kline
Byung-hun Lee	...	Su Dongpo
Elias Koteas	...	Hasford
Takuya Kimura	...	Shitao
Shawn Yue	...	Meng Zi
Simón Andreu
Eusebio Poncela	...	Vargas
Tran Nu Yên-Khê	...	Lili
Russ Kingston	...	Felix Sportis
Thea Aquino

Also Known As:

Je viens avec la pluie (France)

Runtime:

114 min

Country:

France

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Japan:PG-12 | South Korea:18

Filming Locations:

Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines

Company:

Central Films

Is Shitao a messiah or a reborn Christ? It may be a controversy.

I understand that an Asian Christ or messianic person could be hardly accepted by any European or American people・・・ On the other hand, I have no doubt that there is the most important point of this movie, "Mr. Tran's intensive disgust against the most gigantic nation; "USA" who had been exploiting not only African and Asian people, but also murdered numerous number of people in the Middle East and the Asian countries by just self-righteous wars for over a hundred years and finally 'those evil deed" ended up with the world financial crisis. Taking into consideration of the awful history of Mr. Tran's home country, his insightful eyes must be in flame of anger and despair against mankind absurdity. Is it extremely ironical, isn't it? In any case, everybody knows that USA's reign of the world market tumbled down by own strategic failure and by outrageously limitless greed.

If Mr. Tran implies for those religious criticisms from the very beginning, this movie has been already succeeded as far as "raising a religious controversy in the dominating nations" is concerned. As to the religious matter, there are only limited number of Christians in Japan because the most of Japanese people are to be believed as Buddists by and large・・・but in Japan, generally speaking, the devotion to any kind of religion is only subtle, therefore they merely recite a sutra only on the special occasion like funeral and/or memorial services. Mr. Kimura as "Shitao", who is also one of the ordinary Japanese with no religious faith, told in an authorized magazine that he dared to avoid scrutiny of the script because he thought it was the best way to perform "Shitao" and "his authentically unreasonable destiny".

Mr. Kimura is one of the most well reputed actors in Japan, and of course, it is true that he has been the most popular heartthob for over 15 years and has another face as a super-duper pop-star. It is generally well known that he is always meticulously prepared for any kind of play and that he never brings the script into the shooting place with every word of the whole script being memorized (in regardless to the length of the lines; even for 20 minutes or longer). However, this "Shitao", even his existence itself is mysterious and there is no explanation either why he must take the miserable destiny or how he acquires the curing power. Shitao just endures endlessly continuing pain throughout the movie. It seems that he takes it just for granted...and the world is permanently unreasonable and mankind is born unfair...

The wrath of Christ is over-identified with Devil's deed and the agony of both has been achieved the cross or crucifix? I wonder if all the mankind is suffering from agony? If so, Shitao is the concrete symbol of agony of dominated people by superpowers? Still I am thinking it over and over...without reaching the conclusion by far. Some people think Shitao just a poor, vulnerable and miserable man but the others think him he is a man of revelation like Jesus...

Anyhow, the most beautiful and amazing scene of resurrection of Shitao's body in the greenery of the Philippines is strikingly impressed and his impeccably pure eyes, notwithstanding crawling maggots on his face, softly heal my unrest together with the falling rain

This is a movie about which everybody wants to discuss with someone afterwards....