Welcome To JFF 2019
Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
Mirai
Mamoru HosodaM, 2018
Four-year-old Kun's life is turned upside down when his parents arrive home one day with their new baby girl Mirai. Kun soon grows jealous of the attention his baby sister is receiving from his mother and father. He starts throwing tantrums, and shoc
Want A Home That Sparks Joy: KonMari Event
Event, 2019
The KonMari method of tidying has taken the world by storm, thanks to the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. The method encourages keeping only those things that speak to the heart, and discard items that no longer spark joy. Join us a
Killing
Shinya Tsukamoto, 2018
Mokunoshin Tsuzuki is a talented young samurai, living a quiet life helping out the villagers in an isolated rural community. During a training session, Mokunoshin’s sword skills are spotted by an older samurai named Sawamura. The older man is trav
Penguin Highway
Hiroyasu Ishida, 2018
10-year old Aoyama is serious beyond his years. He is an enthusiastic scientist and spends his days filling notebooks with his observations and theories. At the same time he is counting down the days until he will be grown up, so that he’ll finally
Mori, The Artist's Habitat
Shuichi Okita, 2018
Morikazu Kumagai (1880-1977) was a key figure in Japanese modern art, known for his colourful paintings of nature and animals. Mori, The Artist’s Habitat imagines one day in the life of the reclusive artist during his twilight years. Aged 94, he ma
Ten Years Japan
Akiyo Fujimura, Chie Hayakawa, Kei Ishikawa, Yusuke Kinoshita, Megumi Tsuno, 2018
Five directors tell five different stories about life in a near-future Japan. In the first, we follow a man whose job is to persuade elderly and sick people to take up a government-supported ‘population management’ programme. The second is set ar
Welcome To JFF 2019
Ireland's only truly national film festival
Supported by:
Ireland's Japanese Film Festival is back!
The 2019 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.
This year we are hosting screenings from April 6th to 20th inclusive at venues in Dublin, Galway, Tipperary, Limerick, Cork, Sligo, Waterford and Dundalk.
We hope that you will be able to join us.
Enjoy & Arigato!