Two Seasons, Two Strangers preceded by Nagahama
Director: Sho Miyake
2025 / 89min / DCP
Based on two manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge, who rose to underground celebrity thanks to his surrealist tales published in the pages of Garo, the bastion of Japanese avant-garde cartooning, Miyake’s bifurcated live-action feature observes (and draws parallels and contrasts from) a summertime meet-cute between Nagisa and Natsuo (Yuumi Kawai and Mansaku Takada) and a snowbound winter encounter between screenwriter Li and innkeeper Ben-zō (Shim Eun-kyung and Shinichi Tsutsumi). Winner of the Golden Leopard at last year’s Locarno Film Festival, hailed “a true masterpiece” by Shiguéhiko Hasumi, Japan’s greatest living film critic, Two Seasons, Two Strangers is at one and the same time as simple as its straightforward title suggests and immensely, exhilaratingly complex. Preceded by Miyake’s short Nagahama, born of a creative collaboration with dancer and actress Shizuka Ishibashi.
Nagahama (Sho Miyake, 2016, 18 mins)
Two Seasons, Two Strangers (Sho Miyake, 2025, 89 mins)
Distributor: Several Futures
Q&A with Sho Miyake on Saturday, November 7th
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