A painter with a fractured past meets a storyteller—can love thaw what abuse froze solid?
Shun is a young man, who sells his paintings on a city corner. Kasumi is a children's story writer, living alone in a mountain in Shinsyuu. One day, they happen to meet each other in the city crowd, and they immediately connect. However, they must first deal with Shun's childhood abuse which has left him unstable.
Acting
Kei Tanaka's trembling restraint—rage barely caged.
Cinematography
Shinsyuu mountains as emotional weather, stunning.
Direction
Oshima lets silence scream louder than dialogue.
Director
Taku Oshima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Oshima shot Kasumi's mountain cabin in his actual grandmother's abandoned home.
The title 'Frost' references a Japanese proverb about trauma: 'Frozen ground forgets spring.' Kasumi's character was written to embody that spring.
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