Welcome To JFF 2019
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Featured Films
75 Years In Japan
James Creedon, 2018
In 1935, Sister Paschal (Jennie) O' Sullivan - a young nun from Co Cork - said goodbye to her family and left on the long journey to Japan to become a missionary there. She would go on to spend the next 75 years in the country, most of that time teac
Jesus + Short film Tokyo 21st October
Hiroshi Okuyama, 2018
When nine-year-old Yura moves from the city to a small town, he immediately feels lonely and isolated in his new environment. All that changes during a school prayer session. Yura opens his eyes, and spots a small, silent Jesus Christ dancing on the
Of Love & Law
Hikaru Toda, 2017
In her debut feature documentary, Hikaru Toda explores a side of Japan that the rest of the world rarely sees. Fumi and Kazu are personal and professional partners - they operate the first and only law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple, Dr
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
Takahisa Zeze , 2018
It’s the early 1920s, and Japanese society is in turmoil in the wake of the Great Kanto Earthquake. An anarchist group named the Guillotine Society is working to take advantage of the situation by carrying out a series of assassinations - but not e
One Cut Of The Dead
Shinichiro Ueda, 2017
In an abandoned warehouse, a film crew is making a low-budget zombie film. During breaks in shooting, they share rumours about how the warehouse was once used for actual human experiments. The shoot is interrupted when real-life zombies show up and b
Penguin Highway
Hiroyasu Ishida, 2018
10-year old Aoyama is serious beyond his years. He is an enthusiastic scientist and spends his days filling notebooks with his observations and theories. At the same time he is counting down the days until he will be grown up, so that he’ll finally
Welcome To JFF 2019
Ireland's only truly national film festival
Supported by:
Ireland's Japanese Film Festival is back!
The 2019 Festival features another diverse and packed programme of films, which includes work of the most acclaimed filmmakers from contemporary Japanese cinema, and covers a variety of themes, genres and topics.
This year we are hosting screenings from April 6th to 20th inclusive at venues in Dublin, Galway, Tipperary, Limerick, Cork, Sligo, Waterford and Dundalk.
We hope that you will be able to join us.
Enjoy & Arigato!