Gary Oldman and Toho Actors Star in First Film of ‘John Rain’ Series Source: The Associates press release Special Thanks to Farhana Shaikh

Based on the first book in the series of bestselling ‘John Rain’ novels by acclaimed author and former CIA operative Barry Eisler, the action-packed crime-thriller, RAIN FALL, brings Eisler’s half-Japanese, half-American anti-hero to the screen for the first time in the form of award winning Japanese star, Keppei Shiina (THE LAST PRINCESS; SAKURAN). RAIN FALL (cert. 15) will be released on DVD (£15.99) by Momentum Pictures on 29th March 2010. Adapted for the screen and directed by Max Mannix (DANCE OF THE DRAGON), this slickly mounted, tense thriller co-stars Gary Oldman (THE DARK KNIGHT; HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX), veteran Japanese actor Akira Emoto (GODZILLA VS SPACE GODZILLA; ICHI; MEMORIES OF MATSUKO; SINKING OF JAPAN), Kyoko Hasegawa (NANAYO), Misa Shimizu (THE UNBROKEN; THE HARIMAYA BRIDGE) and Dirk Hunter (UNDEAD). Former US Special Forces soldier turned contract killer John Rain is an assassin who specializes in making his ‘hits’ look like deaths from natural causes. Following his own, strict, self-imposed code of conduct, Rain only targets key figures and never accepts a job if it involves killing a woman or a child. But complications arise during Rain’s latest assignment when he becomes attracted to a young woman named Midori, the beautiful daughter of his most recent victim. It soon becomes apparent that the killing of Midori’s father and its repercussions are just one small part of a much wider conspiracy involving both the CIA and Tokyo’s gangland crimelords. Now, both Rain and Midori have become targets themselves and Rain is forced to compromise his beliefs and to risk everything to protect the girl he loves before she is eliminated as collateral damage for being an innocent witness to a vast CIA cover up operation.

A hard boiled action thriller that will appeal to fans of the ‘Bourne’ movies, RAIN FALL marks Keppei Shiina as an action star in the making and features and typically powerful performance from Gary Oldman as Rain’s nemesis, the Chief Officer of the CIA’s Tokyo Bureau. RAIN FALL Label: Momentum Pictures Release date: 29th March 2010 Release type: Region 2 DVD (PAL) Run Time: 111 minutes English and Japanese audio, English subtitles Genre: Action, Thriller Certificate: 15 Pricing: £15.99 Director: Max Mannix Stars: Gary Oldman, Kippei Shiina, Kyoko Hasegawa, Misa Shimizu, Akira Emoto