The Snow Flurry

The account covers twenty years of a woman’s life. The years run from 1940 to 1959. The place is a mountain village in the Nagano region. When she was young she had a lover. He was seventeen. The two of them had decided to die together. She came through that attempt alive. Afterwards she gave birth to a child. The child is called Suteo. She raised him alone. Years later Suteo finds himself in a similar place. The girl he loves is from a wealthy family, and difference of class and of age come between them. The film folds past and present into one another. Keiko Kishi and Ineko Arima appear in the seventy eight minute film, a Japanese production Keisuke Kinoshita finished in 1959.