Yukiko SODE 岨手由貴子

Good Stripes

グッド・ストライプス

Nippon Visions   ½ 

Midori’s and Masao’s relationship has almost reached its end, when Midori realizes that she is pregnant. The couple unenthusiastically decides to marry, and over the course of the preparations they slowly begin to reconcile. In her second feature film, director and screenwriter Yukiko SODE shows her talent for telling a charming love story with memorable characters in an everyday setting.

グッド・ストライプス

Japan 2015

119 minutes

Director
Yukiko SODE

Script
Yukiko SODE

Cinematography
Yasuyuki SASAKI

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.