The second feature-length film by Sugita Kyoshi, released about six years since his debut feature A Song I Remember (2011) drew attention of the film world. Listen to Light is made up of four chapters based on four tanka poems that were selected from a tanka poetry contest held under the theme of “light” with the aim of adapting the winning works into a film. Each chapter can stand on its own as a short film and features a young woman living in the suburbs of Tokyo as well as a singing scene. Just like Krzysztof Kieslowski′s film, the four chapters subtly resonate with each other and form a faint network of relationships. In the four little stories, we witness the encounters, partings, and reunions that show a disproportionate balance of love between two people who are dear to each other. (KITAKOJI Takashi)