Welcome To JFF 2019
Ireland's only truly national film festival
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Featured Films
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
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Macoto Tezuka, 1985
When singers Kan and Shingo are invited to meet with a record company executive, they’re given an unexpected offer: to form a pop duo known as the Stardust Brothers. It takes some persuading from their first and biggest fan Marimo, but eventually t
The Blood of Wolves
Kazuya Shiraishi, 2018
It’s the late 1980s, and Shogo Ogami is a veteran cop who’s rumoured to have ties to the yakuza. He’s partnered with straight-laced rookie Hioka to investigate the disappearance of an accountant who has links to gangsters. It doesn’t take lon
The Gun
Masaharu Take, 2018
On a night-time walk along a Tokyo riverbank, university student Toru stumbles across a dead body, beside which lies a gun. From the moment he impulsively decides to take the gun, Toru’s world starts to change. At first, just knowing that he has th
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
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!