Sho Miyake


is a Japanese director. In 2025, he won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival for his film Two Seasons, Two Strangers.

Career

In 2012, Miyake's first feature film, Playback, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. He then made "A good number of features, shorts, music videos, and television episode" before finding international acclaim with his 2022 feature film, Small, Slow But Steady.

''Two Seasons, Two Strangers''

In 2025, Miyake's Two Seasons, Two Strangers, a remixing of two stories by mangaka Yoshiharu Tsuge, won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. At the International Film Festival of Kerala, it won the Suvarna Chakoram for best film; the judges noted its “exploratory, subtle, beautiful, and thought-provoking cinematic expression of human relationships set within the natural world.”
The South China Morning Post called the film "both fascinating and beautiful," and IndieWire called Miyake "one of the finest, most soulful Japanese filmmakers of his generation."
Miyake had started developing the film in 2020. Originally, he struggled with adapting manga to film, but "The breakthrough came" with Miyake's casting of Shim Eun-kyung as a central character. During principal photography, summer scenes were shot in Kōzu-shima, and winter scenes were shot in Shōnai, Yamagata.

Filmography

  • Playback
  • And Your Bird Can Sing
  • Small, Slow But Steady
  • All the Long Nights
  • ''Two Seasons, Two Strangers''