Welcome To JFF 2020
Ireland's only truly national film festival
Ireland's Japanese Film Festival is back!
Featured Films
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
Melancholic
Seiji Tanaka, 2018
Kazuhiko is an unemployed university graduate, still living at home with his parents. Despite being overqualified for the job, he is eventually hired by the owner of a local bathhouse as a cleaner and attendant. One night after work, Kazuhiko acciden
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.
Dance With Me
Shinobu Yaguchi, 2019
After trading company employee Shizuka (Ayaka Miyoshi) encounters a shady hypnotist (played by Akira Takarada, of Godzilla fame) at a rundown amusement park, every time she hears music she is compelled to sing and dance! Desperate to break the curse,
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
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
Welcome To JFF 2020
Ireland's only truly national film festival
Ireland's Japanese Film Festival is back!
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!