Sho Miyake's debut Good for Nothing, set in his native Sapporo, chronicles the lives of a trio of young men on the cusp of graduation. Captured in a spellbinding, rough-edged monochrome, it is a poignant reminiscence of youth.

Sho Miyake’s breakthrough follows Jun Murakami as an actor at an impasse, dreaming his own death. Shot digitally and finished in luminous 35mm black-and-white film, it established its filmmaker at the vanguard of Japanese arthouse cinema.