Two Seasons, Two Strangers

Golden Anchor Competition

Archive - Festival 41

Sho Miyake Is One of Japan’s Most Perceptive Modern Filmmakers

Indie Wire
  • Archive - Festival 41
  • Director: Sho Miyake
  • Japan 2025
  • 89 minutes
  • Japanese
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet by the sea. Their vacant gazes reflect each other as they exchange awkward words and wade into the rain-drenched ocean. In winter, Li, a Korean screenwriter living in Japan, travels to a snow-covered village. There, she finds a guesthouse run by Benzo. Their conversations rarely connect, yet they set off on an unexpected adventure.

Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film at the Locarno Festival this year, the latest feature from Japanese filmmaker Sho Miyake is gentle, poetic drama that weaves stories within stories.

Filmography: All the Long Nights (2024), Small, Slow but Steady (2022), And Your Bird Can Sing (2018).


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  • Director Sho Miyake
  • Production Masayoshi Johnai
  • Script Sho Miyake, based on Yoshiharu Tsuge’s manga ’Mr. Ben and His Igloo and a View of the Seaside’
  • Cinematography Yuta Tsukinaga
  • Editing Keiko Okawa
  • Music Hi’Spec
  • Festivals Locarno (Golden Leopard for Best Film, Junior Jury Award)
  • Actors Eun Kyung Shim, Yuumi Kawai, Mansaku Takada, Shiro Sano, Shinichi Tsutsumi
  • Source Lev Cinemas