The UK’s biggest festival of Japanese cinema, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme (JFTFP), is back for its latest and greatest instalment!
In a world where injustice runs rampant, cinematic expressions of justice seem inexhaustible: time and time again, heroic protagonists fend off malicious antagonists or enact their revenge, the constant injustices they face mirroring audiences’ own. Japan is no exception to this, and the JFTFP25 promises to showcase how Japanese filmmakers use the language of cinema to explore the concepts of criminal, social, and moral justice, along with the ways people respond to external judgement.
Featuring everything from thought-provoking hidden gems to laugh-a-minute entertainment, UK audiences are invited to join us in questioning the very concepts of justice, justification, and judgement against today’s backdrop of ever-changing values and perspectives.
(Image: All The Long Nights, dir Miyake Shô)
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In this season
Cinema
A Samurai in Time
When an Edo-era samurai travels through time to the 21st century, he puts his sword skills to good use – as an extra on a…
Cinema
In The Wake
A bizarre serial murder puts a spotlight on devastating injustices and unhealed trauma in Sendai nine years after the 2011 earthquake disaster.
Cinema
99% Cloudy…Always
Kazuha, a woman with Asperger’s syndrome, begins to drift apart from her husband over conventional expectations of having children in this uncompromising drama.
Cinema
Ghost Cat Anzu
Wishing to see her dead mother again, a young girl sets out on a fantastical adventure accompanied by her grandfather’s goofy magical talking cat.
Cinema
All the Long Nights
A woman with debilitating PMS and a man with a severe panic disorder find companionship in one another as they help each other to find…