What the Snow Brings (2005)
Yuki ni negau koto (original title)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Yûsuke Iseya	...	Manabu Yazaki
	Kôichi Satô	...	Takeo Yazaki
	Kyôko Koizumi	...	Haruko Tanaka
	Kazue Fukiishi	...	Makie Shudo
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Tetsuya Deguchi	...	Yuhara
	Denden	...	Tamotsu Fujimaki
	Teruyuki Kagawa	...	Ogasawara
	Mitsuko Kusabue	...	Shizuko Yazaki
	Kôtarô Okamoto
	Ryuta Okamoto	...	Tominaga
	Kippei Shiina	...	Kurokawa
	Masahiko Tsugawa	...	Ozeki
	Hiroshi Yamamoto	...	Tetsuo Kato
	Tsutomu Yamazaki	...	Tanba

Storyline

Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jockied by Makie, a legendary jockey's daughter) in a draft-horse race held in his childhood home of Obihiro on the island of Hokkaido. That evening he seeks out his older brother Takeo, a trainer who owns a stable. Takeo is cool to his brother's return since Manabu cut off contact with Takeo and his mother 13 years earlier, after completing a degree at a Tokyo university, founding a successful company, and getting married. After finding out that Manabu's company is going bankrupt, his marriage has ended and he is hiding from his partner and creditors, Takeo offers to let his brother stay if he earns his keep as a stable hand. However, he resists letting him see their mother, who is in a nursing home. Manabu makes real friends among the stable boys, and begins to bring Unryu back into peak racing form... Written by Brian Greenhalgh  

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