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
Production
"Good Stripes" Production Committee
World sales
ColorBird
Cast
Akiko KIKUCHI, Ayumu NAKAJIMA, Asami USUDA, Itsuki SAGARA, Juri IHATA
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.