Welcome To JFF 2020! Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
Melancholic
Seiji Tanaka, 2018
Kazuhiko is an unemployed university graduate, still living at home with his parents. Despite being overqualified for the job, he is eventually hired by the owner of a local bathhouse as a cleaner and attendant. One night after work, Kazuhiko acciden
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
Ride Your Wave
Masaaki Yuasa, 2019
19-year-old Hinako moves away from her family home in the city to start a new life in a small seaside town, where she can attend college and pursue her passion of surfing. After a fire in her new apartment building, she meets and falls in love with f
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
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
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,
Welcome To JFF 2020! 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.
The Festival has waited to get a better idea of the situation before thinking about rescheduling and it knows that things are still changing.
But as some of our partner cinemas have been open and operating safely since July, the Festival wants to support and welcome those loyal JFF fans who want to return to the cinema.
So while this edition will be a bit smaller that normal, we are planning to host screenings at venues in Cork, Galway and Dubin.
The 2020 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!