Fans may remember code from the opening scene of 'The Matrix.' What they likely don't know is that it's text from Japanese cookbooks.

The green, falling digital code depicted as rain in the film "The Matrix" consisted of Japanese sushi recipes.

THE MATRIX has guarded its biggest mystery until now. What was all that indecipherable green code running down the screen. Did it hold the secrets to the very essence of reality itself? Apparently ...

Munchies spotted a CNET report on the origins of the green code that waterfalls down the screen as the movie—and its successors—opens by way of Simon Whiteley.

The production designer behind ’The Matrix’ spills on where all that green code came from.

The falling green characters at the beginning of all of the Matrix films have become perhaps the most recognisable visual from the film, signifying how everything in the franchise's universe is a ...