Welcome To JFF 2021! Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
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
Company Retreat
Atsushi Funahashi, 2021
A group of workers from a hotel chain gather for what they hope will be a relaxing retreat in a seaside town. A recent scandal - where a female receptionist Saki (Saki Hirai) was sexually harassed by a senior manager - has cast a dark shadow over bot
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,
Drive My Car
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021
Two years after the death of his wife, theatre actor and director Yusuke is still struggling to come to terms with the loss. He accepts an offer to direct Uncle Vanya at a theatre festival in Hiroshima and decides to drive there in his cherished red
Hausu
Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977
As the school year draws to a close, young teenager Gorgeous (Kimiko Ikegami) invites a group of her school friends to stay at her aunt’s house in the country. When they arrive, they settle in for a relaxing break in the country house. It isn’t l
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
Welcome To JFF 2021! Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Earlier this year it was disappointing for everyone when the annual Japanese Film Festival Ireland event in April had to be postponed again.
We waited to get a better idea of the situation before thinking about rescheduling.
But as some of our partner cinemas have been open and operating safely since earlier this summer, we want to welcome in person those loyal JFF fans who want to return to the cinema and Japanese Film Festival.
So while this edition will be a bit smaller that normal, we are planning to host screenings at venues in Dublin, Galway, Cork, Limerick and Waterford.
The 2021 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!