Welcome To JFF 2020! Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
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,
book paper scissors
Nanako Hirose, 2020
Nobuyoshi Kikuchi is a man contentedly out of step with the times. Forgoing modern technology, the 77-year-old master book designer (soutei-ka) has utilized the traditional tools of scissors, rulers, and pencils to design over 15,000 extraordinary bo
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
Every Day A Good Day
Tatsushi Omori, 2018
University student Noriko is about to graduate but isn’t really sure what she wants to do with her life. When she and her cousin Michiko start attending a Japanese tea ceremony class, Noriko unexpectedly develops a passion for the practice. The rit
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
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 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!