Film

The Breath

1995 · 2h 18m · Drama · Mystery

IMDb

6.5

Haida, once a famous private detective, is now down and out and running out of reasons to live. One day, while engaging in a group volunteer project to clean up a river, he loses what's left of his will to live and lets the water carry him away. He ends up rescuing a drowning man who alters his view of life totally. Soon he gets a job investigating the mysterious disappearance of a student who sent her mother a cryptic letter, "Wait a bit, Mother. I'm sending my breath. It will arrive soon."

Juro Kara

Yoshio Harada

Joyce Ni Shu-Chun

Haruko Wanibuchi

T.C. Lin

Nana Tang

• Kaizo HayashiDirector
• Juro KaraScreenplay
• Shunsuke KogaProducer
• Hirofumi OgoshiProducer
• Akio NanjoProducer
• Kazutoshi WadakuraProducer
• Masayuki MotomochiProducer
• Yuichi NagataDirector of Photography
• Nobuko TomitaEditor

Release date

September 10, 1995

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 18m

Genres

Drama, Mystery