Welcome To JFF 2021! Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
On-Gaku: Our Sound
Kenji Iwaisawa, 2019
High school student Kenji and his two friends Asakura and Ota spend their afternoons getting into fights or lazily wasting time. One day, Kenji gets the sudden urge to start a band. His two friends decide to go along with it, despite none of them hav
Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes
Junta Yamaguchi, 2020
Kato lives above a cafe, which he also owns. One evening, while relaxing in his apartment after finishing work, Kato hears a voice calling him, a voice which seems to be coming from his own computer screen. In fact the voice is Kato’s own, reaching
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
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
Office Royale
Seki Kazuaki , 2021
26-year-old Naoko is an OL – “office lady” – at a large firm. Happy with their mundane but comfortable work routines, she and her close clerk friends avoid the internal wars that take place between the yankis – the all-female office worker
Complicity
Kei Chikaura, 2018
Chen Liang is a Chinese immigrant living illegally in Japan. Struggling to make ends meet after buying an expensive fake ID and phone, a lucky break sees Liang offered a job in a soba noodle restaurant - a job that was meant to be for someone else en
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!