Events

Time and Location

Nov. 7-8; 12-15
Metrograph (New York, NY) – Sho Miyake in-person appearances planned for Nov. 7 and Nov. 8
Nov. 9-11
Meacham Auditorium, The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma City, OK)

About

The Japan Foundation is proud to present “Unspoken Gestures: The Films of Sho Miyake,” an international touring retrospective of director Sho Miyake’s films in eight countries across North America and Europe from November 2026 through February 2027. Dir. Miyake himself will travel to each city to meet new audiences.

Co-presented by Metrograph, the NYC part of the retrospective will run from Nov. 7-15 with Sho Miyake appearing in-person for Nov. 7 and 8! We will screen not only his works of his career to date but also the Carte Blanche titles selected by himself. 

Following the New York program, Miyake will travel to Oklahoma from Nov. 9-11 to participate in screenings and lead a masterclass (not open to the public) at the University of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.

He has remained a constant and significant presence in contemporary Japanese cinema for the past decade. From his early works—such as Good for Nothing and Playback, which foreshadowed the emergence of a new master—to his latest film, Two Seasons, Two Strangers, which won the Golden Lion at the Locarno Film Festival in 2025, his films have garnered attention in Japan with every release and have attracted numerous fans, transcending generations and appealing particularly to younger audiences in Asia. 

Miyake, who describes the work of a film director as “taking on the responsibility of creating images of humanity,” has consistently turned his gaze through the medium of cinema, toward the demeanor of people living within a community or landscape, as well as the unspoken gestures that are often overlooked in daily life. We, too, are among the audience members who were once struck and moved by his gaze. We sincerely hope to bring that sense of wonder and emotion to as many viewers as possible in theaters around the world.  

Sho Miyake
三宅唱
Sho Miyake completed the elementary fiction course at the Film School of Tokyo and began making feature films soon after graduating from university. His film Playback (2012) was selected for the Locarno International Competition, and And Your Bird Can Sing (2018), Small, Slow But Steady (2022), and All the Long Nights (2024) were invited to the Berlin International Film Festival. His latest, Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) won the Golden Leopard, the top prize at the Locarno Film Festival

For screening schedule and tickets at Metrograph, please visit Unspoken Gestures: The Films of Sho Miyake – Metrograph

For events in Oklahoma, please see below for details.

Date	Venue	Event Type	Event Link
Nov 9	The University of Oklahoma (Meacham Auditorium)	(5:30PM) Reception (6:30PM) Screening of Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025, 89 mins) followed by a Q&A with Shō Miyake	Unspoken Gestures: Films of Shô Miyake #3: Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) | deadCenter Continuum
Nov 10	The Oklahoma City Museum of Art	(7PM) Screening of Small, Slow But Steady (2022, 100 mins) followed by a Q&A with Shō Miyake	Shô Miyake’s “Small, Slow But Steady” w/Filmmaker Q&A | Oklahoma City Museum of Art | OKCMOA

 *There will also be a pre-visit screening:  October 30 at 6:30 PM of All the Long Nights (2024)

For the North American tour, Dir. Miyake will also stop at Los Angeles (Nov 13 – 15) and Toronto (Nov 17 – 19)! Please see below for more details.

Los Angeles
Toronto

This retrospective in New York and Oklahoma is co-presented by Metrograph and The University of Oklahoma, the Departments of Film and Media Studies and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, with support from the Hockman Family Filmmakers Fund.