Welcome To JFF 2020! Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
Tampopo
Juzo Itami, 1985
Tampopo is the widowed owner of a roadside ramen shop, spending her days looking after her son and keeping the struggling restaurant afloat. When two truck drivers - Goro and Gun - stop to taste the ramen, they urge Tampopo to transform her run-down
book paper scissors
Nanako Hirose, 2020
Nobuyoshi Kikuchi is a man contentedly out of step with the times. Forgoing modern technology, the 77-year-old master book designer (soutei-ka) has utilized the traditional tools of scissors, rulers, and pencils to design over 15,000 extraordinary bo
Fly Me To Saitama
Hideki Takeuchi, 2019
Imagine a world where anyone from outside the kingdom of Tokyo needs a visa to enter the capital, especially if you come from the prefecture of Saitama! In this world Momomi is the privileged son of Tokyo’s governor and also chair of the student co
Hausu
Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977
As the school year draws to a close, young teenager Gorgeous (Kimiko Ikegami) invites a group of her school friends to stay at her aunt’s house in the country. When they arrive, they settle in for a relaxing break in the country house. It isn’t l
Children Of The Sea
Ayumu Watanabe, 2019
A young girl is drawn into a mystery involving sealife around the world, in which two mysterious boys are somehow involved.
Complicity
Kei Chikaura, 2018
Chen Liang is a Chinese immigrant living illegally in Japan. Struggling to make ends meet after buying an expensive fake ID and phone, a lucky break sees Liang offered a job in a soba noodle restaurant - a job that was meant to be for someone else en
Welcome To JFF 2020! Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Earlier this year it was disappointing for everyone when the annual Japanese Film Festival Ireland event in April had to be postponed.
The Festival has waited to get a better idea of the situation before thinking about rescheduling and it knows that things are still changing.
But as some of our partner cinemas have been open and operating safely since July, the Festival wants to support and welcome those loyal JFF fans who want to return to the cinema.
So while this edition will be a bit smaller that normal, we are planning to host screenings at venues in Cork, Galway and Dubin.
The 2020 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.
We welcome those who will be able to join us.
Enjoy & Arigato!