Mark R. Leeper: Black Rain (1989/I). In: rec.arts.movies.reviews. IMDb.com, Inc., abgerufen am 26. Juli 2008 (englisch): „by now probably a dozen other films that have that same plot […] The story is really about how Nick and Masahiro learn to respect each other and how with motorcycle chases and gunfights Nick regains his self-respect and becomes honest again. […] Virtually every scene seems to have smoke or smog in it somewhere“
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Vincent Canby: Black Rain (1989). In: The New York Times. 22. September 1989, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2008 (englisch): „Light never simply comes through a window as it might in someone else’s movie. […] At its best, „Black Rain“ has the glitzy quality of an extremely long and clever television commercial. One can’t be sure what is being sold, but the eye isn’t bored“
Frederic und Mary Ann Brussat: Film Review – Black Rain. In: Spirituality & Practice. Abgerufen am 26. Juli 2008 (englisch): „At the end of Black Rain, Matsu cracks a smile. And you will too given the exchange of meanings that transpires between the American individualist and this Japanese team player“
Rita Kempley: ‘Black Rain’. In: The Washington Post. 22. September 1989, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2008 (englisch): „It’s a gorgeous, erratic movie […] It’s big, maybe too big for its shallow notions and commonplace structure. But it is also beautiful and terrible in the same ways that other Scott movies have been eye-filling“
