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Yukiko Sode on Cannes Un Certain Regard Title 'All the Lovers in the Night': 'Two People on the Margins of the World'

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entertainmentMay 19, 2026

May 19, 2026 4:31am PT

Yukiko Sode on Cannes Un Certain Regard Title ‘All the Lovers in the Night’: ‘Two People on the Margins of the World’

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For Yukiko Sode, the challenge wasn’t pressure – it was pleasure. Adapting Mieko Kawakami’s introspective novel “All the Lovers in the Night” for the screen meant externalizing a protagonist’s inner world, a task the director describes not as burden but as sustained creative exploration.

“It was certainly a challenge to find a way to externalize the protagonist’s first-person introspection from the novel. But if anything, what stayed with me was the enjoyment of the process – continually exploring how to shape and articulate it cinematically,” Sode says.

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