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Directed by Sho Miyake | 113 mins | 2012
With a perceptiveness beyond his years, Miyake moved from the adolescent unquiet of his feature debut, "Good for Nothing" (2010), to the unquiet of looming middle-age in his follow up. Soon to be divorced and almost 40, Haji (Jun Murakami), an actor, takes up an invitation to visit his hometown. An injury incurred on the journey pushes the story into unexpected territory: Haji wakes up in his high school uniform, apparently transported back in time.
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Diary Without Words 2014
Directed by Sho Miyake | 66 mins | 2014
The first of Miyake’s video diaries opens, fittingly enough, in a cinema. But this 2014 diary suggests a filmmaker more often in transit than at rest, offering glimpses of numerous train and plane trips, as well as the people and creatures observed along th... -
Diary Without Words 2015
Directed by Sho Miyake | 67 mins | 2015
A cat nestles in a busted traffic cone, a pizza cutter divides a glistening pie, a pigeon outside the Centre Pompidou approaches the camera inquisitively: Miyake’s second video diary arranges micro-scenes into a sensory cascade.
