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.