What the Snow Brings

Won: Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix
Won: Audience Award
Won: Best Director – Kichitaro Negishi
Won: Best Actor: – Kōichi Satō

What the Snow Brings
What the Snow Brings
Japanese	雪に願うこと
Directed by	Kichitaro Negishi
Screenplay by	Masato Kato
Starring	Yūsuke Iseya; Kōichi Satō; Kyōko Koizumi; Kazue Fukiishi; Teruyuki Kagawa; Mitsuko Kusabue; Tsutomu Yamazaki
Release date	October 28, 2005 (Japan, festival); May 20, 2006 (Japan, theatrical);
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

What the Snow Brings (雪に願うこと, Yuki ni Negau Koto) is a 2005 Japanese drama film directed by Kichitaro Negishi and based on a novel by Shō Narumi.^[1]

Synopsis[]

Manabu Yazaki had left his family's home in Hokkaidō years before to go to Tokyo to earn a degree, start a company and get married. Now, divorced and pursued by creditors, he returns to his home and the family he has ignored for so many years. He loses the last of his money on a ban'ei horse race, a local sport where huge draft horses compete while pulling sleighs. Now broke, Manabu finds a job at the stable run by his brother Takeo. There he meets two women, Haruko, who helps Takeo run the stable, and Makie, the jockey who seems to have lost her touch. He also finds Unryu at the stable, the horse that cost him his money at the ban'ei, and who may be heading for the slaughterhouse.

Cast[]

Yūsuke Iseya as Manabu Yazaki
Kōichi Satō as Takeo Yazaki
Kyōko Koizumi as Haruko Tanaka
Kazue Fukiishi as Makie Shudo
Teruyuki Kagawa as Ogasawara
Kippei Shiina (椎名桔平) as Kurokawa
Yukiyoshi Ozawa (小澤征悦) as Sutō
Masahiko Tsugawa as Ozeki
Denden (でんでん) as Tamotsu Fujimaki
Hiroshi Yamamoto (山本浩司) as Tetsuo Kato

Release[]

What the Snow Brings played at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2005^[2] and was released theatrically in Japan on May 20, 2006.^[1] In September 2007, it had a showing at the 2007 Raindance Film Festival.^[3]