Welcome To JFF 2022! Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
Tokyo Revengers
Tsutomu Hanabusa, 2021
26-year-old Takemichi Hanagaki (Takumi Kitamura) is stuck in a rut - lazily drifting through life without direction. One day, he gets the shocking news that his high school sweetheart Hinata (Mio Imada) and her younger brother Naoto (Y?suke Sugino) h
The Asadas!
Royota Nakano, 2020
Ever since he was a teenager, Masashi Asada (Kazunari Ninomiya) has loved photography. For a college assignment, he decides to take a staged photo of his own family. The Asadas enjoy the experience so much that they decide to take part in a whole ser
Pompo the Cinephile
Takayuki Hirao, 2021
Pompo is an ambitious and passionate film producer working in the movie capital of the world - Nyallywood. So far, she’s mainly had success with her b-movies. When her talented but nervous ‘movie buff’ assistant Gene discovers a script for a fi
Looking for Magical Doremi
Junichi Sato, 2020
Sora, Mire and Reika are three women in different stages of their 20s, living in different parts of Japan, and all dealing with their own personal dilemmas. They have one big thing in common: their shared love for Magical Doremi (Ojamajo Doremi) - a
Summer Ghost (with Making of)
Loundraw, 2021
Tomoya, Aoi and Ryo are three high schoolers who meet online, brought together by their shared interest in a particular urban legend. The legend speaks of the ghost of a young woman, who appears when fireworks are set off. The three teenagers each ha
The Pursuit of Perfection
Toshimichi Saito, 2021
Japan boasts no shortage of extraordinary food, and this sumptuous documentary explores the techniques and philosophies of four of the country’s most celebrated chefs. Takemasa Shinohara runs Ginza Shinohara - a kaiseki (traditional, multi-course m
Welcome To JFF 2022! Ireland's only truly national film festival
AUDIENCE AWARD:
Vote for your favourite JFF22 film HERE
We're back for 2022 in our usual April spot!
Thanks to everyone who was able to attend our smaller editions in 2020 & 2021 and to all of our loyal supporters.
We're not quite back to all our previous locations just yet, but we are visiting Cork, Galway, Dublin, Waterford, Tipperary and Dundalk in the coming weeks.
The 2022 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're looking forward to welcoming you back.
Enjoy & Arigato!