I Come with the Rain

Synopsis: Ex-Los Angeles cop turned private eye Kline travels to Hong Kong in search of Shitao, the missing son of a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss. Enlisting Meng Zi a friend and a former colleague now working for the Hong Kong Police, Kline follows a faint trail left by the ethereal Shitao. The path leads to local gangster Su Dongpo and his beautiful, drug addicted girlfriend Lili. But Kline is distracted from his search, haunted by memories of the serial killer Hasford whose 'body of work' was the reason Kline quit the police force. Will Kline once again need to lose his mind to find his latest quarry?
Genre: Thriller
Director(s): Tran Anh Hung
Production: LeBrocquy Fraser Prods.
 
IMDB:
5.5
NOT RATED
Year:
2009
114 min
50 Views


I Come With The Rain

Jesus is in agony.

Till the end of the world.

Los Angeles

Two years later

I'm sorry, mr. Kline, for this deeply

unpleasent arrangement. I apologize.

I have a fear of being contaminated

by all sorts of things.

I have an only son,

whose name is Shitao.

Three years ago,

without any explanation

He left for Asia.

A year after he left, he sent me a telegram

from the island of Mindanao

in the Philippines.

He asked me to deposit $10,000

into his account.

I did so.

Without question.

A month later, he asked

for the same amount again.

This time I sent a detective

A man named Vargas.

Vargas searched for 6 weeks

and had reasons to believe

that my son was looking

after an orphanage.

In an area occupied by gold miners.

A short while later,

I received a telegram from Vargas.

He said everything was fine,

That I could send the money,

that it was for the orphanage.

I sent the money.

Since then...

Thirteen months have passed

without any news.

No means of reaching Vargas.

Do you have any idea why your son left?

You must understand, mr. Kline,

that Main is the largest pharmaceutical

conglomerate in the world.

I built this empire from nothing.

Through sheer force of will.

Perhaps I was too hard on my son.

Since he was 10 years old,

I've only ever seen my boy from there.

Where you are now sitting.

Please, find him.

You have carte blanche, mr. Kline.

Spend whatever you need to spend.

But please, bring me back my son.

When and where will you begin your enquiry?

I have another job I am finishing up

in a couple of days.

I guess I will start the minute after

and pick it up where Vargas left off.

Very well, mr. Kline.

Thank you.

MINDANAO, Philippines

Someone swore to me that he saw three men,

Hiro, Shitao and

about seven months ago.

They dragged his body into the jungle

and buried it somewhere.

Why would they kill him?

At first Shitao kept the orphanage going

with money from his father.

Then one morning, he shut himself up here

in this room for three days without eating.

When he came out...

He went directly

to the richest miners around.

to ask them for donations.

One man...

Never, if anything...

Saw Shitao...

Sat on the ground...

in front of thet man's house...

And he talked...

For hours and hours and hours...

The man...

didn't chase him away...

He didn't hit him up...

He said nothing to him.

Then...

One night...

He heard him .

I want your advice, Vargas...

On my way here, I got a phone call.

It was Shitao's father.

He told me something.

He has a sisters that lives

in Hong Kong.

Except from Shitao,

she's the only family he has left.

Two days ago, she went

to their parents' grave

And she found fresh flowers.

She called her brother...

Scolding him for being in Hong Kong

and not calling her.

When he told her

he hadn't budged from L.A.,

Naturally I assumed it was Shitao

who left flowers at the grave.

- He decided to leave the evidence.

- That's what I said.

But they want me to go to Hong Kong

and check it out.

I have no reason to doubt that the person

who told me

he'd seen Shitao murdered by three men.

But I never said anything

to my employer because...

I didn't have any real proof

of his death...

Everything points to his

being dead, but....

That he's still alive.

If I were you...

I'd go to Hong Kong.

Thanks.

Here is a photo I took of Shitao.

I think it's the most recent one.

HONG KONG:

Save my boy, please, save him.

Save my boy, please.

Are you ok?

Hi.

I'm looking for Detective Ju Meng Zi.

May I see your id please?

Hey, how are you?

- Good to see you.

- Nice to see you too.

What's going on?

Who was that?

Su Dong Po. An a**hole.

I'll take you to dinner tonight.

Sorry, I was annoying.

It's no problem.

Who's complaining?

Well, are you looking

for a guy in Hong kong?

Yeah.

What have you got on him?

Name, age, ,

a couple of photos.

Give me your right hand.

Christ, show me your other hand.

What happened to you?

You did it yourself?

Come with me, I'm taking you

to the infirmery.

Maybe he looks totally different

since the last picture was taken.

Yes, possible.

We'll see what the computers

have to say about your man, ok?

I'm restoring the house

of the Lord. He is coming.

He's the crazy guy who painted

the .

Is it Jesus? The Christ? The Buddha?

The fish has to be at least 75 years old.

Try it.

It won't kill you.

Come on.

Try it.

- So, good.

- Ok, tell me, why do you quit the force?

They made me see a shrink,

that's why I quit the force.

Just because of a murder...

It was...

He killed 24 people...

He considered himself an artist...

He used to make scultpures

of his victims' bodies.

This guy could disect his victims

so quickly they were still alive.

That's really disgusting.

After 27 months on the case...

I think I kind of...

overidentified with him.

Tako sam jedino mogao da

Provalim ta ce uraditi sledece.

I...

It was the only way I could figure out

what he's gonna do next.

So I had to think like him,

I had to live like him, and...

in the end I think I got

a little contaminated.

Yeah, contaminated.

Did you catch him?

Yeah, I caught him,

it was easy.

It was easy?

Yeah, it was easy.

Because...

he was ready to be caught.

There were a lot of guys working

on the case, but...

He chose me...

He chose you...

He called me at 4 o'clock

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Tran Anh Hung

Trần Anh Hùng (born December 23, 1962) is a Vietnamese-born French film director. more…

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