Welcome To JFF 2019
Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
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
Ten Years Japan
Akiyo Fujimura, Chie Hayakawa, Kei Ishikawa, Yusuke Kinoshita, Megumi Tsuno, 2018
Five directors tell five different stories about life in a near-future Japan. In the first, we follow a man whose job is to persuade elderly and sick people to take up a government-supported ‘population management’ programme. The second is set ar
The Gun
Masaharu Take, 2018
On a night-time walk along a Tokyo riverbank, university student Toru stumbles across a dead body, beside which lies a gun. From the moment he impulsively decides to take the gun, Toru’s world starts to change. At first, just knowing that he has th
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
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
Penguin Highway
Hiroyasu Ishida, 2018
10-year old Aoyama is serious beyond his years. He is an enthusiastic scientist and spends his days filling notebooks with his observations and theories. At the same time he is counting down the days until he will be grown up, so that he’ll finally
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!