Man Walking on Snow (2001)

Directed by Masahiro Kobayashi, former assistant director of François Truffaut, the Japanese drama Man Walking on Snow (2001) stars Ken Ogata as Nobuo Honma, a 63-year-old widower who has turned over his saki-making business to his younger son, Yasuo (Yasufumi Hayashi), and spends his time observing the fish at a local fish farm. When the anniversary of his wife’s death comes around, Nobuo invites his estranged older son, Ryoichi (Teruyuki Kagawa), to visit, and soon the family squabbles start. Along the way the much younger Michiko the salmon girl (Sayoko Ishii) bares her boobs to Nobuo in an attempt to seduce him. There’s something fishy here.