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Man Walking on Snow

2001 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ6746280 ↗
Source-derived summary

Man Walking on Snow (Japanese: 歩く、人, Hepburn: Aruku, Hito) is a 2001 Japanese drama film directed by Masahiro Kobayashi. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Man Walking on Snow” as 2001 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Walking, Snow and film.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Walking, Snow and film providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Man Walking on Snow”, the useful work is to connect “2001 film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6746280. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Man Walking on Snow”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Man Walking on Snow primary sources, Man Walking on Snow archive and Walking research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Man Walking on Snow”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Man Walking on Snow” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.