Shō 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.

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 (2012) And Your Bird Can Sing (2018) Small, Slow But Steady (2022) All the Long Nights (2024) Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025)