Yukiko SODE 岨手由貴子

mime-mime

Nippon Digital   ½ 

Makoto seems to float past life with her acerbic wit. Then she decides to face reality after going through her mother’s second marriage, a quarrel with her sister and a sermon from her brother-in-law.

Japan 2008

87 minutes

Director
Yukiko SODE

Script
Yukiko SODE

Cinematography
Takuma FURUSHO

Music
Yuri MIYAUCHI

About Yukiko SODE
岨手由貴子

Yukiko SODE, born in Nagano Prefecture in 1983, studied at ENBU Seminar under Tetsuo SHINOHARA. Her first short film COSPLAYER (2004) was selected for the 2005 PIA Film Festival. At the same festival’s 2008 edition, she won two awards with her feature-length debut MIME-MIME (NC ’09), leading to several screenings at international film festivals. After directing more short films, she completed her second feature-length film GOOD STRIPES (2015 / NC ’16), for which she received the Kaneto Shindo Award.