Welcome To JFF 2019
Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
One Cut Of The Dead
Shinichiro Ueda, 2017
In an abandoned warehouse, a film crew is making a low-budget zombie film. During breaks in shooting, they share rumours about how the warehouse was once used for actual human experiments. The shoot is interrupted when real-life zombies show up and b
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
Jesus + Short film Tokyo 21st October
Hiroshi Okuyama, 2018
When nine-year-old Yura moves from the city to a small town, he immediately feels lonely and isolated in his new environment. All that changes during a school prayer session. Yura opens his eyes, and spots a small, silent Jesus Christ dancing on the
Born Bone Born
Toshiyuki Teruya, 2018
On the anniversary of their mother’s death, the Shinjo family reunite on the remote Okinawan island of Aguni Shima. Eldest son Tsuyoshi and his single sister Yuko have travelled the long distance home to help their father to carry out a senkotsu â€
75 Years In Japan
James Creedon, 2018
In 1935, Sister Paschal (Jennie) O' Sullivan - a young nun from Co Cork - said goodbye to her family and left on the long journey to Japan to become a missionary there. She would go on to spend the next 75 years in the country, most of that time teac
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!