Shô Miyake's Locarno winner probes the deeper impact of modest encounters in an elegantly structured miniature that spills out from a writer's imagination into her less controlled real life. A ...

Sho Miyake is one of the finest, most soulful Japanese filmmakers of his generation. His recent features, all patiently-paced dramas about circumstantial relationships, share a compelling interest in ...

You might anticipate a certain expansiveness of theme and plot arc to any preplanned narrative trilogy. But that expectation ...

Three years ago, Japanese director Shô Miyake enjoyed an arthouse breakthrough with his gorgeous, unconventionally delicate boxing movie “Small, Slow But Steady.” Two features later, that title looks ...