Black Rain

So we just also talked about Days of Thunder, which is directed by Tony Scott.

And so another movie that is popping into my head is a movie called Black Rain, directed by Ridley Scott.

And the reason that that movie is popping into my head is because it's like...

I think probably what that movie was trying to do at the time was trying to be, like, not necessarily, like... a diehard ripoff, but it was probably, I'm assuming some on some level trying to capitalize on like the eighties action movie diehard trend thing.

I mean, even, um, there's not to get, not, not to drag this on for too long.

I'll try to make this quick.

Um, there's actually a, a really, really, really quick part in black rain that like stuck in my mind.

Um, Right, because you brought up the technique.

What else is there? Somebody, I'm looking at some of the texts.

Uh, Black Rain.

I think I saw that one too.

Was, that was the Yakuza, right? The, uh-

He's known most for making a film called Blood and Bones, which I haven't seen, and it stars a guy called Seiji Matano, who is really great in the film.

He's kinda like this tough guy action type actor, and he got roles for a while 'cause he looked a lot like an actor called Yusaku Matsuda, who was in Black Rain.

Oh, yeah.

I know that guy.

And was on the cusp of being this massive star in the West, but then he died straight after Black Rain came out.

I can't remember, what would he die of?

I think he died of lung cancer.

Um, and just to put, just to say like I know what I'm talking about, 'cause it's not like I've only seen like five of his movies.

Of his, of his directed films, the ones I have not seen are Black Rain, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, G.I. Jane, A Good Year, and The Counselor.

I've seen everything else.

Okay.

They bought Columbia Pictures and everything.

You see these movies like Black Rain, the Ridley Scott, you know, film with Michael Douglas and co.

The glass hand is not anthropomorphized.

It is to the point.

Extra blood.

And it's one of those ones where it's a buddy cop movie where they're trying to figure out, you know, it's still early in the days of the 80s where you would either, a bit like Russia where they go to a different part of the world or like Black Rain where it starts in America and goes to Japan.

Japan.

That scene at the beginning where he's running underneath an underpass, that's where they shot the opening of Black Rain with the bike race.

Oh, the bike

race.

He was up for two Oscars that same year.

He was also up for Black Rain.

Oh, wow.

So now, Jason, imagine.

But we don't know for which movie yet.

Oh, well, not only that,

there were two Greggs on the Black Rain crew.

There was a Greg P. Russell, who I think now is a 17, not 17 time nominee.