From June 29 to July 4, the China Film Archive hosted a panorama of the Japanese director Miyake Sho’s works with the support of the Japan Foundation, Beijing.

“Small, Slow but Steady” ©Hugoeast

Over the last decade, a number of filmmakers with distinctive personal styles have come to the fore in the Japanese cinema, with Miyake Sho as a salient figure. The director’s two latest features, “And Your Bird Can Sing” (2018) as well as “Small, Slow but Steady” (2022) were much talked about in the global film community. His earlier works such as “Nagahama” (2016) and “August 8” (2016) gave full play to the expressiveness of the characters through their body language, a focus that continued in “Small, Slow but Steady”.

“Good for Nothing”&“Playback” ©SHO MIYAKE

The exhibition featured a total of eleven Miyake movies, covering features, shorts and documentaries, namely, “1999”, “Good for Nothing”, “Playback”, “The Cockpit”, “Nagahama”, “The Courier”, “August 8”, “And Your Bird Can Sing”, “Wild Tour”, “Diary Without Words”, and “Small, Slow but Steady” . We were honored to have with us the director who exchanged freely with the audience during several post-screening question-and-answer sessions.

The program is as follows.

(Translated by Luo Desai)