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.

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

The creator of the mysterious neon green code used in the “Matrix” films says his wife’s cookbooks sparked its creation. The creator of the mysterious neon green code used in the “Matrix ...

All three existing Matrix films open with the same “digital rain”: vertical lines of code streaming down the screen to represent the virtual environment in which humans are unknowingly trapped.

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 ...

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

Carrie-Anne Moss honored Trinity and "The Matrix" at the premiere of the fourth movie, wearing a code-inspired "digital rain" dress.