Welcome To JFF 2026! Ireland's only truly national film festival
Featured Films
The Colors Within
Naoko Yamada, 2024
Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the 'colours' of others. Colours of bliss, excitement, and serenity. Kimi, a classmate at her school, gives off the most beautiful colour of all. Although she doesn’t play an instrument, Tots
The Ozu Diaries
Daniel Raim, 2025
Legendary filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu is a major figure in cinema history, with several of his films such as Tokyo Story and Late Spring regularly featuring near the top of ‘greatest films of all time’ lists. In this fascinating documentary, director
Millennium Actress
Satoshi Kon, 2001
JFF is delighted to present 25th anniversary screenings of Millennium Actress, directed by the late, great Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers). The modern anime classic tells the life story of famed film actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, loosely bas
The Curse
Kenichi Ugana, 2025
When Riko spots some odd, disturbing online posts from her Taiwanese friend Shufen, she attempts to intervene. She’s shocked to discover her friend actually died in mysterious, violent circumstances several months earlier. Determined to find out w
Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988
Katsuhiro Otomo's cyberpunk classic Akira makes its welcome return to the big screen. In a dystopian neo-Tokyo, Kaneda and Tetsuo are members of a vigilante biker gang. When his best friend Tetsuo is captured by the authorities after an accident, the
A Pale View of Hills
Kei Ishikawa, 2025
1980’s England. Niki, an aspiring journalist, wants to write a book based on her Japanese mother Etsuko’s post-war experiences in Nagasaki. As Etsuko reluctantly begins to recall her memories, she slowly reveals some long-hidden truths. Based on
Welcome To JFF 2026! Ireland's only truly national film festival
Welcome to the Japanese Film Festival 2026!
Full details of this year's lineup are now online!
You can download the full 2026 programme here: PDF