Welcome To JFF 2019
Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
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
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
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€
Killing
Shinya Tsukamoto, 2018
Mokunoshin Tsuzuki is a talented young samurai, living a quiet life helping out the villagers in an isolated rural community. During a training session, Mokunoshin’s sword skills are spotted by an older samurai named Sawamura. The older man is trav
Tremble All You Want
Akiko Ohku, 2017
24-year-old Yoshika has long left school, but after all those years she still harbours an all-consuming crush on her former classmate Ichimiya (who she affectionately refers to as ‘One’). When she goes on a few dates with co-worker Ni (or ‘Twoâ
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Macoto Tezuka, 1985
When singers Kan and Shingo are invited to meet with a record company executive, they’re given an unexpected offer: to form a pop duo known as the Stardust Brothers. It takes some persuading from their first and biggest fan Marimo, but eventually t
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!