Winter Sakura

Winter Sakura — Plot

"Fuyu no Sakura" is described as a pure love story with similarities to the popular Korean drama "Winter Sonata" (titled "Fuyu no Sonata" in Japan). Kusanagi plays a gentle glass craftsman in Yamagata who has no experience in love. Imai plays an older housewife with a husband and daughter who goes on a trip alone to Yamagata, hoping to see sakura trees blooming in winter. She gets into an accident, but is saved by Kusanagi. He ends up tending to her, and the two are soon drawn to each other.

• Release date
• January 16, 2011
• Runtime
• 54 min

Winter Sakura — Cast

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi Inaba Tasuku Miki Imai Ishikawa Monami Takeru Satoh Inaba Hajime Rosa Kato Mukai Anna Yuri Shirahane Shiraishi Rie Kyōko Enami Ishikawa Shoko Ei Morisako Ishikawa Kotone Masanobu Takashima Ishikawa Koichi