Welcome To JFF 2019
Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
Born Bone Born
Toshiyuki Teruya, 2018
On the anniversary of their mother’s death, the Shinjo family reunite on the remote Okinawan island of Aguni Shima. Eldest son Tsuyoshi and his single sister Yuko have travelled the long distance home to help their father to carry out a senkotsu â€
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
I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
Shinichirou Ushijima, 2018
One day a high school boy stumbles across a secret diary. He discovers that the journal belongs to his classmate, a free-spirited and popular girl named Sakura Yamauchi, who reveals that she is suffering from a terminal illness. Sakura tells the boy
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
Mori, The Artist's Habitat
Shuichi Okita, 2018
Morikazu Kumagai (1880-1977) was a key figure in Japanese modern art, known for his colourful paintings of nature and animals. Mori, The Artist’s Habitat imagines one day in the life of the reclusive artist during his twilight years. Aged 94, he ma
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
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!