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
Kizumonogatari – Part 3: Reiketsu
Tatsuya Oishi, 2017
With help of Meme Oshino, Koyomi takes back the limbs of Kiss-shot after defeating the three vampire hunters: Dramaturgy, Episode and Guillotinecutter. On seeking out Kiss-Shot, with the intention of becoming human again, she reveals to Koyomi the co
Tsukiji Wonderland
Naotaro Endo, 2016
There’s nowhere quite like Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. Work begins before many people even head to bed, with the excitement really kicking off in the early hours of the morning. It is a place of gloriously organised chaos - thousands of people ru
A Bride for Rip van Winkle
Shunji Iwai, 2016
Nanami is a shy and lonely school teacher who meets Tetsuo online. The pair decide to get married, but Nanami’s lack of friends or relatives proves a source of frustration for her husband-to-be. She is put in touch with Amuro, who runs a business w
Destruction Babies
Tetsuya Mariko, 2016
Taira is a quiet but frustrated and angry young man who one day decides to leave his seaside hometown - much to the disappointment of his younger brother Shota. In a nearby city, Taira becomes increasingly violent and starts fighting random people on
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
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
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!