Director: Sho Miyake
Two coworkers carrying private struggles find an unlikely rhythm together in Sho Miyake's 2024 drama All the Long Nights, a Japanese film that trades melodrama for quiet observation of everyday resilience.
What is All the Long Nights about?
Misa has just started a job at Kurita Optics, trying to rebuild a stable routine after years of being sidelined at work because of severe premenstrual symptoms that colleagues never fully understood. On the same team is Takatoshi, a reserved man whose panic attacks sometimes force him to step outside mid-shift. Neither talks much about what they're carrying, but small gestures - a shared snack, a covered shift, a walk home - slowly turn colleagues into confidants. All the Long Nights follows their friendship through office routines and quiet evenings rather than big dramatic turns, letting the bond between them build in glances and small kindnesses instead of speeches.
Cast & crew
Hokuto Matsumura plays Takatoshi with a careful stillness, while Mone Kamishiraishi gives Misa a mix of frustration and dry humor that keeps the film from tipping into melodrama. Kiyohiko Shibukawa rounds out the Kurita Optics office as a steady supervisor figure who anchors the workplace scenes.
Context & significance
Director Sho Miyake, known for observational character studies, builds the film around small workplace details - inventory counts, break-room snacks, the awkwardness of asking for accommodation - rather than plot mechanics. The approach earned the film festival attention in Japan and abroad for its restrained treatment of mental health and premenstrual disorders, subjects rarely centered so directly in mainstream Japanese cinema.
Where & how to watch
All the Long Nights streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking audiences can follow every quiet exchange between Misa and Takatoshi. Reading this page requires no account; watching the film does, through a simple K-Time login built for Persian-speaking audiences around the world.