
Breathless Lovers
2017, Japanese. Directed by Shumpei Shimizu.
Suffering from heartbreak and asthma, 23-year-old Toshiyuki pushes the limits of his body to chase the ghost of his recently deceased boyfriend against the black-blue backdrop of Tokyo’s cityscape. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
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- 0h 20m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 1 January 2017
- Original title
- 息ぎれの恋人たち (Ikigire no Koibito-Tachi)
- Country
- Japan
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Breathless Lovers isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 2017. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Breathless Lovers?
Breathless Lovers (2017) was directed by Shumpei Shimizu and stars Kaito Yoshimura, Fusako Urabe, Daisuke Kuroda.