Snowy Love Fallin’ in Spring
Japanese Title: Haru no Yuki
Release Year in Japan: 2005
Director: Isao Yukisada
Casts: Satoru Tsumabuki (Kiyoaki Matsueda), Yuko Takeuchi (Satoko Ayakura)
Based on Yukio Mishima’s classic novel, “Snowy Love” depicts a tragic romance between a high-society young man and a young woman who is already engaged with a royal family member in Taisho era. It is often classified as an art-oriented literature film, but also can be considered as another “pure-love” film, popular genre in Japan that was brought to the main stream by “Crying Out for Love, in the Center of the World” of the same director.
The film is nominated in 9 categories in Japan Academy Awards 2006.