Two Seasons, Two Strangers
2025
MIYAKE Sho | 2025 | Fiction | Color | DCP | 89min (KN)
TIME TABLE
SYNOPSIS
In summer, Nagisa, a woman from the city, and Natsuo, a young man visiting his relatives, 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 screenwriter in a creative slump, travels to a snow-covered village with an old camera left behind by a late acquaintance. There, she finds a peculiar, desolate guesthouse run by the enigmatic Benzo. Their conversations rarely connect, yet they set off on an unexpected adventure.
DIRECTING INTENTION
We travel and make films to step outside routine and familiar words, to see the world as if a stranger. Words guide us, but also dull our senses. Through image and motion, we meet others—and ourselves—more openly. And we wake to a world unnamed, still quietly filled with awe.
FESTIVAL & AWARDS
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DIRECTOR
MIYAKE Sho
2012 Playback
2014 The Cockpit
2018 And Your Bird Can Sing
2019 Wild Tour
2022 Small, Slow But Steady
2024 All the Long Nights
STAFF
Director MIYAKE Sho
Producer JOHNAI Masayoshi
Screenwriter MIYAKE Sho
Cinematographer TSUKINAGA Yuta
Editor OKAWA Keiko
Lighting AKIYAMA Keijirō
Music Hi'Spec
Production Design NUNOBE Masato
Cast SHIM Eun Kyung, KAWAI Yuumi, TAKADA Mansaku, SANO Shiro, TSUTSUMI Shinichi