Two Seasons, Two Strangers
Singapore Premiere
Sho Miyake Japan 2025 89 min PG
This film turns its gaze to scriptwriters, asking how lives are written, translated and transformed through cinema.
This film takes inspiration from Yoshiharu Tsuge’s manga A View of the Seaside (1967) and Mr. Ben and His Igloo (1968), unfolding first in a summer by the sea that feels curiously cold, then in the warmth of a remote winter inn. At its centre is Li, a scriptwriter searching for direction, whose practice reveals writing as a way of processing life. Ordinary encounters turn into words, feelings into text, and experiences into images, though always tinged with loss.
The film dwells on the limits of language and translation, where silence and landscape speak instead. Sea and snow frame stories of solitude and strangers, resulting in a cinema that withstands loneliness while affording brief moments of belonging.
Synopsis Writer: Sim Jiaying
Q&A with Filmmaker(s)
3 Dec, Wed 4:30PM / 89 min
Golden Village Suntec, Hall 7
Q&A with Filmmaker(s)
5 Dec, Fri 9:30PM / 89 min
Golden Village Suntec, Hall 5
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers
旅と日々
Sho Miyake
Japan
2025
Japanese, Korean
English
89 min
PG
Singapore Premiere
Sho Miyake
Shô Miyake is a Japanese director and writer working across fiction, documentary and television. His debut feature Playback (2012) competed at Locarno. And Your Bird Can Sing (2018), Small, Slow But Steady (2022) and All the Long Nights (2024) all screened at Berlin. His latest film Two Seasons, Two Strangers won the Golden Leopard at Locarno.
Shim Eun-kyung,
Yuumi Kawai,
Mansaku Takada,
Shiro Sano,
Shinichi Tsutsumi
Masayoshi Johnai
