After his quiet, moving drama “Small, Slow, but Steady” (2022) based on the autobiographical book by Keiko Ogasawara about her life as the first professional boxer with disability in this sport, Japanese helmer Sho Miyake is back on the international festival track with another little marvel of a film “All The Long Nights”. Just like its predecessor, the film had its world premiere at the Berlinale to critical acclaim. Another thing they have in common is that “All The Long Nights” is also based on a (eponymous) novel by Maiko Seo (published in 2020), adapted into a screenplay by Wada Kiyoto and the helmer himself.
All The Long Nights screened at Red Lotus Asian Film Festival Vienna
In a sense, the premises of both films are comparable: people coming to terms with their specific health-related conditions and living their lives to the best. This time, in focus are a young woman with...
All The Long Nights screened at Red Lotus Asian Film Festival Vienna
In a sense, the premises of both films are comparable: people coming to terms with their specific health-related conditions and living their lives to the best. This time, in focus are a young woman with...
- 5/1/2024
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Shô Miyake’s All the Long Nights is a film about small things: decency, kindness, why people help each other out, how those acts can inspire others. The first character we meet is Misa (Mone Kamishiraishi), a sensitive type who suffers from premenstrual syndrome. In the opening scene, this causes Misa to lose her cool at work, and while the situation is smoothed over, she quits out of shame. Leaving the city, she lands a gig in a suburban company, assembling astronomical sets, and meets Takatoshi (Hokuto Matsumura), a young, panic attack-prone man who recently left a job under similar circumstances. After an initial misunderstanding, their orbits align into something that looks like love but never skews romantic.
If that all sounds a bit saccharine, bear with it: in Miyake’s previous film, Small, Slow But Steady, the director took the autobiography of Keiko Ogasawara, a hearing-impaired female boxer, and...
If that all sounds a bit saccharine, bear with it: in Miyake’s previous film, Small, Slow But Steady, the director took the autobiography of Keiko Ogasawara, a hearing-impaired female boxer, and...
- 3/21/2024
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Ray Yeung’s All Shall Be Well has been set as the opening film of the 48th Hong Kong International Film Festival, which has unveiled its full lineup today.
It will mark the Asian premiere of the Hong Kong feature, which debuted in the Panorama strand of the Berlinale last month and won the Teddy Award. Starring Patra Au and Maggie Li, it centres on a lesbian couple in their twilight years. After one of them dies, the other struggles to retain both her dignity and the home they shared for more than 30 years.
Miyake Sho’s All The Long Nights,...
It will mark the Asian premiere of the Hong Kong feature, which debuted in the Panorama strand of the Berlinale last month and won the Teddy Award. Starring Patra Au and Maggie Li, it centres on a lesbian couple in their twilight years. After one of them dies, the other struggles to retain both her dignity and the home they shared for more than 30 years.
Miyake Sho’s All The Long Nights,...
- 3/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
Nobody is broken in Shô Miyake’s films; nobody is quite beyond repair. But over the course of his last few features, the Japanese director has centered characters who are at at least mildly sprained, and trying hard to get by on hope and a homemade splint. In his previous movie, “Small Slow But Steady” — a title that incidentally could be a manifesto for Miyake’s soft, low-key style — a deaf female amateur boxer battled self-doubt and the looming closure of her beloved gym. And his new film, “All the Long Nights” offers a similar kind of balm, this time focusing on a young woman whose major challenge comes from debilitating Pms. It’s an affliction rarely described with this much compassion, when it is mentioned at all outside its regular context as the lazy punchline to a thousand sexist jokes.
Here it is treated with a sensitivity that does...
Here it is treated with a sensitivity that does...
- 3/3/2024
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Evidently, the romantic comedy film has been done to death, as one of the most popular movie categories in the entire world. In that regard, shooting a romantic movie that manages to present something different is a feat by itself, and Masahide Ichii tries to do so through smart dialogue, role reversal and a general, very Japanese quirkiness. Let us see if he succeeds.
Our Meal for Tomorrow is screening as part of The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
Based on the novel “Bokura no Gohan wa Ashita de Matteru” by Maiko Seo, the film focuses on two radically different high school students. Hayama is an introverted shy boy while Uemura is an outspoken, always cheerful girl. After circumstances and Uemura’s invitation brings them into becoming partners in a rice bag race, the two strike a friendship which eventually has Hayama speaking about the reason he is so morose.
Our Meal for Tomorrow is screening as part of The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
Based on the novel “Bokura no Gohan wa Ashita de Matteru” by Maiko Seo, the film focuses on two radically different high school students. Hayama is an introverted shy boy while Uemura is an outspoken, always cheerful girl. After circumstances and Uemura’s invitation brings them into becoming partners in a rice bag race, the two strike a friendship which eventually has Hayama speaking about the reason he is so morose.
- 1/30/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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