Welcome To JFF 2021! 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
It's A Summer Film
Soushi Matsumoto, 2021
Teenager Barefoot is obsessed with samurai films. She spends her days watching and re-watching chanbara classics with her two best friends - Blue Hawaii, who is a kendo enthusiast, and sci-fi geek Kickboard. Bored with the school film club and their
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
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
EVANGELION:DEATH(TRUE)2
Hideaki Anno, 1997
Experiments conducted in Antarctica in 2000 have destroyed humankind. People call that catastrophe the Second Impact. The Earth’s axis was thrown off kilter, and the world population decreased dramatically. Fifteen years later, humanity is again fa
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!