Review | Two Seasons, Two Strangers movie review: Sho Miyake’s hypnotic ode to writing and travel
Starring Shim Eun-kyung and Yuumi Kawai, Japanese drama Two Seasons, Two Strangers is both fascinating and beautiful
4/5 stars
Korean actress Shim Eun-kyung stars as Li, a screenwriter living in Japan, who is searching for inspiration for her latest project. The perpetual clash between her desire for solitude and sense of isolation in a foreign land both fuels her own writing and provides the thematic background for Two Seasons, Two Strangers.
Split roughly into two halves, each segment follows a woman as she travels to a different part of the country at a specific time of year, and her interactions with a male stranger.
The first half takes the form of a film Li has written, in which Nagisa (Yuumi Kawai) wanders around a small seaside town, where she meets Natsuo (Mansaku Takada), a fellow tourist whose mother grew up in the area.