Hatsuyuki no koi - Virgin Snow (2007)

Min Kim is a man from Korea who travels to Japan to visit with his father, and also to get out of going to school. On his way to find his father (Who is a potter) he comes across a Japanese shrine where he sees a beautiful girl (Nanae Sasaki). Later Min Kim is told that he will attend a Japanese school (even though he has no idea how to speak the language). He is misunderstood by a possible rival? Then he finds out that Nanae is in the same class as him! The two find love even through their language barrier. Due to Nanae's alcoholic mother and the abusive boyfriend her mother dates the family is forced to run away in fear that one day her mother's lover will kill her and her younger sister. Min Kim is torn and searches desperately for her...

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Another small pearl from Asian cinema. And of course the ever-cute Aoi Miyazaki.