Can we talk about movies and music that feature "rain" or "umbrellas"?

Hello, this is the staff of Komiya Shoten.
This time I would like to write about rain and umbrellas.

When I think of rain, the first thing that comes to mind is the 1952 American film "Singin' in the Rain."
The scene in a movie from Hollywood's heyday in which Gene Kelly sings and dances in the rain while holding an umbrella is so famous that everyone has heard this song at least once.
Listening to it makes you feel excited and makes rainy days more fun.

The next thing that comes to mind, although it's not directly related to the content of the film, is the song "Rain or Shine" from the 1969 American film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."

Ironically, if "Singin' in the Rain" is a Hollywood film that symbolizes an America filled with tremendous confidence, this film is one of the masterpieces of the "New Cinema" genre, which was born in New York, a city that symbolized an America filled with a sense of stagnation due to the Vietnam War and other events.
To digress, the "New Cinema" era was a genre of film that expressed anti-social sentiments from the late 1960s through to the 1970s, and many masterpieces were produced during this period, including "The Graduate," "Easy Rider," "Bonnie and Clyde," "Taxi Driver," "Scarecrow," "John and Mary," and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
Unlike Hollywood movies, it doesn't have a happy ending.

Young people today may not feel the same way when they watch these films, but those who lived through those eras in real time will be deeply moved by them.
In terms of actors, it has produced many great actors such as Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, and Paul Newman.

Returning to the topic, another movie that features an umbrella is this one from France:
"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" from 1964.

This is a musical film starring Catherine Deneuve as the daughter of an umbrella maker, and I'm sure you've heard the theme song somewhere before.
This was the era when Catherine Deneuve and Audrey Hepburn were at their most beautiful, but there was a new film genre called "Nouvelle Vague" that began in France in the 1950s, preceding the American "New Cinema."
There are no heroes or heroines...
I feel like I'm reading a novel...

Also, straying from umbrellas, the French film that makes me cry the most is "Cybele's Sunday."
Sayuri Yoshinaga also wrote somewhere that it was her favorite movie, but I guess that doesn't really have anything to do with it (laughs).
In both "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "Sunday with Cybele," the protagonist's boyfriend goes off to war, but at this time, Indonesia and Algeria were still under French rule and wars of independence were taking place, so people were being drafted. It seems that this sense of stagnation created a new trend in films in both France and America.
So, if you have the chance, please watch or listen to these movies and music.