What the Snow Brings

Sunday, October 22nd - 12:00pm
Tuesday, October 24th - 7:00pm
Thursday, October 26th - 9:20pm

(2005, 112min) US Premiere
Director: Kichitaro NEGISHI
Cast: Yusuke ISEYA, Koichi SATO, Kyoko KOIZUMI, Kazue FUKIISHI, Tsutomu YAMAZAKI
Swept 4 categories at the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival (2005) including the Grand Prix.

When you've lost everything, is there a place you can go back to?
Manabu Yazaki, who had big dreams of success in Tokyo, loses his high-class lifestyle as well as his family and returns home to the Hokkaido heartland in midwinter. There his elder brother Takeo manages a stable for "Banei horserace", a sleigh-pulling race unique to Hokkaido. Their long overdue reunion exposes the gap between them even more. Takeo does not let his brother meet their aging mother who is living in a nursing home.

However, while he watches Manabu interact with the sometimes quirky stable workers and the horses as they face the challenges of racing day in and day out, Takeo decides to have his brother meet their mother. Gradually the two men develop an understanding between them.