Daisuke Miyazaki

Daisuke Miyazaki is a filmmaker born in Yokohama, Japan whose film Plastic opens October 4 at Metrograph and through Metrograph At Home. After graduating from Waseda University and working under such directors as Leos Carax and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, he made his debut with End of the Night (2011). His directing credits include the 2015 anthology film 5 to 9 (co-directed with Tay Bee Pin and Rasiguet Sookkarn), his 2016 feature Yamato (California), the 2018 drama Tourism, the 2019 thriller Videophobia and the 2023 neo-noir #Mito, plus contributions to the anthology films Made in Yamato (2021) and 10 Stories (2023). His two-part installation Specters and Tourists opened at the ArtScience Museum of Singapore in 2017.

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My Runaway Life

By Daisuke Miyazaki | October 4, 2024

My Runaway Life

Japanese writer-director Daisuke Miyazaki, whose new film Plastic opens today, on opting out of school and society, before discovering cinema.