"A man is waiting for a woman in a house, isolated in the snow-covered mountains. He expected her quite some time ago. He waits on, believing that she must come soon. The woman is married but he is determined to possess her for himself. He has had to leave his village to realize this fantasy, abandoning everything, even killing his beloved dog. But she has not arrived yet. As the night falls, the snow becomes heavy. Surrounded by darkness and numb from the cold, he begins to drift into a state between reality and dreaming. SNOW, WOMAN is Meike's most ambitious film to date. Shot in a remote part of northern Hokkaido, the production proved difficult because of the extreme weather conditions. Whereas most pink films are shot in just three or four days, Meike and his team held out for fourteen days. Meike had to cut the final film from an original ninety minutes to fit the sixty minutes pink film format. Due to the dark look of the film, most cinema owners refused to screen it and it was finally shown in just a handful of theatres. This not only illustrates the limitations within which pink eiga directors have to operate, but also demonstrates the determination of young filmmakers like Meike to realise their films. Cinematographer Konishi Yasumasa's images let the viewer almost experience the coldness that creeps into the man waiting in total isolation in a dark and abandoned house in a vast desert of snow."
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