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unusual facts about White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki



Dirck Halstead

The films he worked on included, Goodfellas, Memphis Belle, Shaft, Black Rain, Dragon, Dune, Conan the Barbarian series, Greystoke, and Cliffhanger.

DVAS

Michael Douglas was the muse for Black Rain, one of 10 tracks on their latest collection, Macho.

Hiroshi Kashiwagi

Kashiwagi appeared in several films, including Black Rain, directed by Ridley Scott, and Hito Hata: Raise the Banner produced by Visual Communications.

Red Frame/White Light

The song is about a red telephone box in Meols that was used by the band to make calls to organise their gigs in the late 1970s.

Social Distortion discography

Four years elapsed before Social Distortion's next studio album, White Light, White Heat, White Trash, which peaked at #27 on the Billboard 200 in 1996, the band's highest chart position to date, and featured their only Billboard Hot 100 single "I Was Wrong".

Steven Okazaki

Okazaki co-received the 2008 "Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking" Primetime Emmy Award for White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his fourth Oscar nomination in 2009, for the documentary short The Conscience of Nhem En.

The Way You Do the Things You Do

The song was released in 1989 in the major of the European countries (in July 1990 in France), and was featured in the Ridley Scott/Michael Douglas film Black Rain.

White Light/Violet Sauce

The song features a cameo from Sin City director, Robert Rodriguez, who can be heard saying "Welcome to Sin City" in a distorted voice.


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