Originally from Osaka, Japan, Hikari, also known as Mitsuyo Miyazaki is an award-winning writer, director and producer. Her debut short film Tsuyako (Drama, 2011) visited over 100 film festivals worldwide receiving 50 awards including DGA Student Award for the Best Female Filmmaker and the film was qualified for the Oscar in 2012 and 2013. In 2013, she was one of the 5 directors to create a short film for the first annual Lexus Short Films, produced by The Weinstein Company. Her live action/animated short film A Better Tomorrow (Fantasy Adventure, 2013) premiered at Festival de Cannes, special screening hosted by TWC and Lexus International. Her latest dance short film Where We Begin (Drama, 2015) premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and received 8 awards at festivals nationwide. Most recently she had participated at Sundance Institute/NHK Screenwriting Workshop in Tokyo as well as Film Independent’s Screenwriting Lab with her feature script Cantering. HIKARI holds an MFA in Film and TV production from USC School of Cinematic Arts and currently represented by Paradigm Talent Agency. She believes in the power of visual communication, and that it changes society and the minds of the people.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Osaka, Japan
- Director, producer and writer
- 5 on MovieCove · 11 credits in all
Known for
Where can I watch Hikari's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 4 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Hikari's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
11 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Rental Family(2025)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Beef(2023)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
Tokyo Vice(2022)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
37 Seconds(2019)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
A Better Tomorrow (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Tsuyako (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
10-8: Officers on Duty (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Dan and Sam (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Eleanor & Park (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Foster the Snowman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Awards
2 major awards from 3 major nominations, 2019.
- Berlinale award, won · Fiction Film
- Berlinale award, won · Panorama
- Berlinale award, nominated · Best First Feature
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.