This project was created for the Communication Design Illustration Thursday afternoon film screenings, for which I was assigned The Snow Woman (1968), a Japanese fantasy film based on the legend of Yuki-onna. The film presents the Snow Woman not simply as a supernatural figure of fear, but as a character suspended between danger and tenderness, secrecy and domesticity. In response, I wanted to move away from the most familiar visual clichés of the tale and instead focus on the film’s emotional and atmospheric contrast. The final poster centres on the image of breath, transforming it into both a supernatural force and a vessel of memory, from which scenes of human warmth begin to emerge. I chose woodcut because the act of carving is closely tied to the narrative itself: the Snow Woman’s husband, a carpenter’s apprentice, spends the film trying to carve Kannon’s divine smile, and only at the very end finds that expression in the Snow Woman’s face as she leaves him in tears. In this way, the material process became part of the concept, allowing the poster to echo both the emotional tension of the story and its motif of carving, memory, and revelation. Combined with letterpress, the final piece seeks to reflect the film’s quiet unease and the fragile boundary between the human and the otherworldly.