Usually the Japanese Film Festival is a spring affair, offering new and classic cinema from one of the great homes of international film every April. Things haven’t been ‘usual’ for a while of course and this year’s JFF was delayed, but as cinemas start to reopen more, the 2021 Japanese Film Festival is ready to go ahead, a cultural cinematic celebration taking place across Ireland. This October 14- 21st, you can see great Japanese films on the big screen, not just in the fair city of film but in Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford.
16 films will be available at cinemas throughout Ireland this month, with some big name classics on offer alongside new releases. Bonkers horror Hausu , anime event horizon End of Evangelion are seasonally appropriate scary cinema. One of the all time great films about food, Juzo Itami’s 1985 film Tampopo will make your heart soar and your stomach yearn for ramen also.
The Light House and Pálás cinemas will be joined by the Gate in Cork and Belltable in Limerick, as well as the Garter Lane and Triskel Arts Centres in Waterford and Cork respectively as venues for this year’s Japanese Film Festival. In addition to the classics, some exciting new releases will be available also. Tickets are on sale now for the films of JFF across the various venues.
Irish premieres of two anticipated 2021 releases from the East are also found in the JFF programme.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, a hit on the festival circuit, will be available, as well as the off-kilter Office Royale, an intense and over the top look at office cliques.
For Dublin film fans, we’ve included a full list of dates and times for the films screening at the Light House Cinema this October below. More details on all the films screening at JFF 2021 are available now from their website.
Nanako Hirose, 2020
17 October 2021 | 1:00pm
Atsushi Funahashi, 2021
17 October 2021 | 3:00pm
Kei Chikaura, 2018
19 October 2021 | 6:00pm
Shinobu Yaguchi, 2019
18 October 2021 | 6:00pm
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021
16 October 2021 | 7:00pm
Hideaki Anno, 1997
16 October 2021 | 3:00pm
Tatsushi Omori, 2018
21 October 2021 | 6:00pm
Hideki Takeuchi, 2019
15 October 2021 | 6:30pm
Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977
16 October 2021 | 10:30pm
Soushi Matsumoto, 2021
17 October 2021 | 8:30pm
Seiji Tanaka, 2018
20 October 2021 | 6:00pm
Seki Kazuaki , 2021
14 October 2021 | 6.30pm
Kenji Iwaisawa, 2019
15 October 2021 | 9:00pm
Juzo Itami, 1985
17 October 2021 | 6:00pm
Hideaki Anno, 1997