A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.
Writing
Kurosawa's final screenplay, completed posthumously.
Cinematography
Mist and candlelight creating claustrophobic beauty.
Acting
Terao's stillness holds the entire film together.
Director
Takashi Koizumi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Akira Kurosawa's final screenplay, written in the 1970s but unfilmed until after his death. Koizumi, his former assistant director, finally brought it to screen.
The 'rain' never stops—it's both literal weather and metaphor for the Edo period's declining samurai class, washed away by peace itself.
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