JAPANEMA Movie 'What the Snow Brings' - Free Japanese Cinema ScreeningNEW

JAPANEMA (Free Japanese Cinema Screening) Date Wednesday, November 27@ 7:00PM "WHAT THE SNOW BRINGS" (112 MINS, 2005) Synopsis Manabu Yazaki (Yusuke Iseya) loses his big dreams of success in Tokyo, his high-class lifestyle, and his family, and returns home to the Hokkaido heartland in midwinter. There his elder brother Takeo (Koichi Sato) manages a stable for "Banei horseracing," a sleigh-pulling race unique to Hokkaido. Their long overdue reunion exposes the gap between them. Manabu interacts with the sometimes quirky stable workers and horses as they face the challenges of racing day in and day out, and takes care of a horse that was supposed to be put down for not taking home the prize money. For Manabu, this becomes his chance to "reset" his own life and his hope for a new start.

Date
11/27/2013