Japanese director Sho Miyake, whose “Two Seasons, Two Strangers” won the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 2025, will get his first North American retrospective at New York’s Metrograph from Nov. 7–17. It is one stop on a Japan Foundation tour of 14 cities in eight countries.
\n\nThe Metrograph program, titled “Unspoken Gestures: The Films of Sho Miyake,” is co-organized and presented by the Japan Foundation. Miyake will attend in person over the opening weekend, and select encore screenings will follow the main run.
\n\nThe series brings together eight of Miyake’s own titles. They include his 2012 debut feature “Playback,” which premiered at Locarno, and “The Cockpit” (2014), a 64-minute film that watches producer-rapper OMSB and his collaborator Bim make a track in a small suburban Tokyo apartment. “And Your Bird Can Sing” (2018) screens with the 2016 short “August 8th,” and “Two Seasons, Two Strangers” is paired with the 2016 short “Nagahama.” Boxing drama “Small, Slow but Steady” (2022) and “All the Long Nights” (2024) round out the lineup.
\n\nMiyake has also picked two films that influenced his work as carte blanche selections: David Elfick’s 1973 surf film “Crystal Voyager” and Aoyama Shinji’s 2007 drama “Sad Vacation,” the final part…
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