Black Rain

Black Rain (1989) is Ridley Scott's action thriller you can watch online on iFILM. New York cop Nick Conklin collars a Yakuza killer in plain sight and is told to deliver the prisoner to Osaka. On Japanese soil the man slips loose, walking right out of the escort's hands.

Stranded in a city that isn't theirs, Conklin and his partner Charlie have no guns and no permission to work the case their own way. A local detective, Masahiro, keeps pulling them back to rules the Americans can't read. The manhunt soon spills into open war between Yakuza clans. Michael Douglas plays a cop who breaks every system over his knee, Andy Garcia his lighter-footed partner, and Ken Takakura the Japanese officer whose patience outlasts all that swagger.

Scott shot Osaka as a wet neon underworld — steam off the grates, motorcycles in the smoke, rain that never seems to quit. Hans Zimmer wrote the score. That final bike chase through the rice fields sticks with you apart from the plot. Stream Black Rain (1989) online on iFILM.