Kyoshi Sugita

Kyoshi Sugita

Birth : , Tokyo, Japan

History

Born 1977, Tokyo, Japan. Film director, whose feature film One Song was selected for the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2011 and made its theatrical debut in 2012. His second feature film, Song of Light, was selected for the 2017 Tokyo International Film Festival and the 2018 Jeonju International Film Festival and will be released theatrically in 2019. The film received high praise in major newspapers and the film magazine Kinema Junpo, and word of mouth spread, leading to a nationwide theatrical release. He has also published the novels Kawa no Koibito (River Lovers) and Hitotsu no Uta (One Song) (in the literary magazine Subaru), and participated as a photographer in the fourth poetry collection Uta Long Long Short Song Long by the poet Koichi Masuno (Raitosha), and continues to work widely.

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Kyoshi Sugita

Movies

Haruhara-san's Recorder
Screenplay
Sachi quits her job at a museum, starts working part-time at a café, and moves into an apartment recommended by a regular customer. Although she has started a new life, Sachi is still haunted by the memory of her partner whom she will never see again.
Haruhara-san's Recorder
Director
Sachi quits her job at a museum, starts working part-time at a café, and moves into an apartment recommended by a regular customer. Although she has started a new life, Sachi is still haunted by the memory of her partner whom she will never see again.
Listen to Light
Director
Shiori, Yukiko, Kyoko and Sachiko continue to live each day with untold feelings inside. Unable to forget a colleague on a trip, a father who is ill, a friend who works at a store that is about to close, and a long-lost husband, each woman takes a step forward. There is a light that sometimes embraces them, calmly and gently.
Listen to Light
Screenplay
Shiori, Yukiko, Kyoko and Sachiko continue to live each day with untold feelings inside. Unable to forget a colleague on a trip, a father who is ill, a friend who works at a store that is about to close, and a long-lost husband, each woman takes a step forward. There is a light that sometimes embraces them, calmly and gently.
遠くの水
Director
Yukiko comes to Tokyo from Ehime and continues to live in a place where she knows nobody. One day, she happens to meet a young man who comes and goes from her workplace.
A Song I Remember
Screenplay
At a train station in the suburbs of Tokyo, an accident takes place causing death and injury. Tsuyoshi is at the scene and witnesses the death of a woman. Right before the accident occurred, Tsuyoshi took a photograph of the woman, who carried a gentle look. Later, Tsuyoshi learns the woman has a daughter named Kiriko. Tsuyoshi meets Kiriko.
A Song I Remember
Director
At a train station in the suburbs of Tokyo, an accident takes place causing death and injury. Tsuyoshi is at the scene and witnesses the death of a woman. Right before the accident occurred, Tsuyoshi took a photograph of the woman, who carried a gentle look. Later, Tsuyoshi learns the woman has a daughter named Kiriko. Tsuyoshi meets Kiriko.
くじけないで手紙を書いた
Director
The poet Koichi Masuno always goes to his friends to give them his poetry collection "Kujikena", which is about to be published.
河の恋人
Director
A day in the life of Kiriko, who has not told anyone about her father's disappearance.
Following the Sound
Director
One day, Haru (25), who works as a bookstore clerk, reunites with Takeshi (45), whom she first met a few years prior, when she stopped him from jumping in front of a train. Takeshi offers Haru a job. Another day, Haru is worried about Yukiko (40) who is sitting on a bench in front of the station, and talks to her. This leads them on a small journey together. Haru takes along a cassette tape and recorder left behind by her mother Taeko, who died of illness when Haru was in primary school. Haru again faces regrets of not being able to help Taeko, which she had held for a long time.