JAPAN CUTS Review: Sayaka Kai’s RED SNOW, The Color Of Ambiguity, And The Power Of Closure
In Red Snow, Masatoshi Nagase stars as a Kazuki, a varnish artist who works on bowls for a living with acrylic paints. He resides on a coastal northern island in Japan, afflicted by a past he can barely remember between his hazy memory and the lurid, snowdriven dreamscape he awakens from in the morning. This is the continued aftermath afflicting him in the decades since chasing his brother up a path amid a heavy snowfall, only to see him disappear right before his eyes. Thirty years later, he’s buried much of his emotions though lives in what appears to be a constant state of emotionless wonderment. It’s just another cold day on the island though, it seems, until one day when a journalist named Shogo (Arata Iura) shows up with details that renew the investigation of his brother’s disappearance. When Kazuki declines to comment, Shogo’s inquiry then lands him the […]
