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The First Rains of Spring

2011 film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ7734177 ↗
Source-derived summary

The First Rains of Spring (Japanese: 春、一番最初に降る雨) is a 2011 drama film. It is a Kazakhstani-Japanese co-production and is directed by Erlan Nurmuhambetov and Shinju Sano. The film won the Grand Prix at the Eurasia Film Festival.

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“The First Rains of Spring” enters the record as 2011 film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what First, Rains and Spring can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around First, Rains and Spring.
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“The First Rains of Spring” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, First, Rains and Spring provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7734177. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “The First Rains of Spring” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.