The Lion Standing in the Wind (movie)
風に立つライオン- User score: 6.4
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Takashi Miike
- Production companies: AX-ON, OLM, Nippon Television Network Corporation
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 3/14/2015
- Run time: 139 min.
Movie description
Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
