What the Snow Brings
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- Movie: What the Snow Brings
- Romaji: Yuki ni negau koto
- Japanese: 雪に願うこと
- Director: Kichitaro Negishi
- Writer: Sho Narumi, Masato Kato
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: May 20, 2006 (Japan)
- Runtime: 112 Min.
- Studio: Stylejam, Inc.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Its hero is Manabu Yazaki (Yusuke Iseya), who has lost his business and his wife in Tokyo and who has now returned home to Obihiro, Hokkaido, in the dead of winter. On the advice of an elderly punter (Tsutomu Yamazaki), he bets all his remaining cash on a banei horse race, in which enormous draft horses pull jockeys on weighted sleighs around a 200-meter track, climbing two large humps on the way. Manabu's horse, Unryu, stops dead on the middle of the second hump -- and the punter tells him the horse will soon be sashimi.
Unryu, it turns out, is being trained by Manabu's irascible older brother Takeo (Sato), who runs a stable, but is far from being rich. He bristles at Manubu's arrival -- his younger sibling had all but disowned his socially declasse family in his climb to the top in Tokyo -- but reluctantly takes him in and, when he hears about his dire financial straits, offers him a job at the stable.
His other options exhausted, Manabu accepts, but finds the work tough and his brother's temper more violent than ever. One refuge is Haruko (Kyoko Koizumi), an ever-cheerful woman who cares for the stable workers and serves as Takeo's surrogate wife, if not yet his lover. Another is Unryu, for whom Manabu has an instinctive sympathy as a fellow loser. Still another is Makie, Unryu's jockey, who is forever being compared with her famous jockey father, but who has lost the touch that once made her his worthy successor.
Cast
- Yusuke Iseya - Manabu Yazaki
- Koichi Sato - Takeo Yazaki
- Kyoko Koizumi - Haruko Tanaka
- Kazue Fukiishi - Makie Shudo
- Tetsuya Deguchi - Yuhara
- Denden - Tamotsu Fujimaki
- Teruyuki Kagawa - Ogasawara
- Mitsuko Kusabue - Shizuko Yazaki
- Ryuta Okamoto - Tominaga
- Kippei Shiina - Kurokawa
- Masahiko Tsugawa - Ozeki
- Hiroshi Yamamoto - Tetsuo Kato
- Tsutomu Yamazaki - Tanba
Trailer
Film Festivals
- 2006 (1st) Kinotayo Film Festival - November 21-November 25 - Feature Films
Awards
- "Best Director" - 2006 (19th) Nikkan Sports Film Awards - December 28, 2006
