Rain Fall

Thursday was another rainy day, so we decided to go and see a movie.

Some of my favorite books are the John Rain series by Barry Eisler. John Rain is a half-Japanese / half-American assassin specializing in hits that look like natural causes. I'd heard that his first book "Rain Fall" was being made into a movie, and assumed it would be a typical Hollywood action blockbuster. It turns out it was made for the Japanese market, so most dialogue is in Japanese. Since Gary Oldman plays the head of the Tokyo CIA station all of his dialogue is in English. I figured that since we'd read the books and a lot of the dialogue is in English we'd be able to follow along, and indeed we were.

The movie mangled some of the plot intricacies as you would expect in an adaptation, but was entertaining. Plus I enjoyed the all in experience of seeing it on a rainy day in Japan in the movie theaters a couple of weeks after it came out.

It rained the rest of the day. There was one point where it seemed like it might be clearing up.

But then the clouds rolled in again and started pouring again.