Welcome
To JFF 2017
Back for our ninth year! This year's Festival is a continuation of the highly successful collaboration between the Embassy of Japan and access>CINEMA, with support from the Ireland Japan Association and the Japan Foundation.
Featured Films
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Yoji Yamada, 2015
Medical student Yoji becomes one of the thousands of victims of the US atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki in August 1945. His death leaves his mother Nobuko - who works as a midwife - living at home alone, albeit with regular visits from Yoji’s fiancé
Poolsideman
Hirobumi Watanabe, 2016
Yusuke lives a lonely life in a suburb north of Tokyo. He eats breakfast, he drives to work at the local pool, he watches the TV news and listens to the radio. All the while, he barely says a word. Even when he is forced to drive his chatty co-worker
The Letter
Jiro Shono, 2006
Since they lost their parents, Takeshi has provided for his younger brother Naoki, and works hard to ensure that his sibling will get to university. But when Takeshi is fired from his job, he is forced to take desperate measures to ensure that his br
Being Good
Mipo O, 2015
Newly graduated primary school teacher Okana finds his idealistic principles challenged when he tries to help a student he suspects is being mistreated. Young mother Masami feels totally alone as she undertakes single-parenting responsibilities while
All Around Us
Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2008
Laid-back Kanao and controlling Shoko are married and have decided to start a family. Realising that his current casual job will not be sufficient to provide for a child, Kanao uses his art school background to obtain a position as a courtroom sketch
Happy Hour
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2015
Four female friends approaching middle age - Akari (Sachie Tanaka), Sakurako (Hazuki Kikuchi), Fumi (Maiko Mihara) and Jun (Rira Kawamura) - agree to attend a weekend workshop hosted by an eccentric artist. When the group heads out for a few drinks a
Welcome
To JFF 2017
Back for our ninth year! This year's Festival is a continuation of the highly successful collaboration between the Embassy of Japan and access>CINEMA, with support from the Ireland Japan Association and the Japan Foundation.
The 2017 Festival features a diverse and packed programme of 21 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 will host 46 screenings at venues in Dundalk, Cork, Galway, Maynooth, Sligo, Limerick, Dublin and Waterford.
We hope that you will be able to join us.
Enjoy & Arigato!