Sho Miyake

Director at DIFF 2026

Sho Miyake was born in 1984 in Sapporo, Japan. He completed the fiction filmmaking course at the Film School of Tokyo and began directing feature films shortly after graduating from university. Regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary Japanese filmmakers, Miyake is known for his humanistic films centred on characters grappling with human fragility and the challenges of everyday life. His film Playback (2012) was selected for the International Competition at Locarno. And Your Bird Can Sing (2018), Small, Slow But Steady (2022), and All the Long Nights (2024) were invited to the Berlinale.