Rain Fall is a 2009

2009 in film

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 Japanese

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/Australian action thriller film

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 written and directed by Max Mannix. In the film a hitman protects the daughter of one of his victims against the CIA.

Plot summary

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

Cast

• Gary Oldman
  Gary Oldman
  Gary Leonard Oldman is an English actor, voice actor, filmmaker and musician.A member of the 1980s Brit Pack, Oldman came to prominence via starring roles in British films Meantime , Sid and Nancy and Prick Up Your Ears , with his performance in the latter bringing him his first BAFTA Award...
  
  ... Holtzer
• Kippei Shiina... John Rain
• Kyōko Hasegawa
  Kyoko Hasegawa
  is a Japanese actress. She is married to Haruichi Shindō, one of the members of the Japanese rock band Porno Graffitti.On May 30, 2009 she gave birth to a baby boy.- Filmography :*SCANDAL *Karei naru Ichizoku...
  
  ... Midori
• Misa Shimizu... Yuko
• Takumi Bando... Ken
• Akira Emoto... Tatsu
• Dirk Hunter... Thomas Perryman
• David McFall
  David McFall
  David Bernard McFall was a Scottish sculptor.Born in Glasgow, McFall studied at the Junior School of Arts and Crafts in Birmingham from 1931 to 1934, and at the Birmingham School of Art from 1934 to 1939...
  
  ... CIA man

Reception

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'

External links

Rain Fall at IMDB
Rain Fall Review at Midnight Eye