Out of the Wind (2007)

Profile

• Movie: Out of the Wind
• Romaji: Kaze no Sotogawa
• Japanese: 風の外側

• Director: Eiji Okuda
• Writer: Eiji Okuda
• Producer: Kazunari Hashiguchi
• Cinematographer: Kouichi Ishii
• Release Date: December 22, 2007
• Runtime: 123 min.
• Genre: Drama / Romance / Zainichi Korean / Opera-Music / Gangster
• Studio: Zero Pictures
• Distributor: There’s Enterprise
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

Mariko Iwata (Sakura Ando), a high school student who dreams to become an opera singer. Son-mun Cho (Takao Sasaki), a zainichi, loses an important music score for Mariko. In return she asks him to become her bodyguard on her way back home from school. A relation will emerge between them not without difficulties and disappointments.