Films 2019

Every day a good day is a Zen expression which originated in China that means: By living every day as it comes, you make each day fresh and good… Read More
 

★ Special appearance by Director Naoko Nobutomo!
This heart-warming documentary was critically acclaimed as one of the best films from Japan in 2018. It first opened in one local theater… Read More
 

The members of an online suicide club decide to end their lives together. Every time they intend, however, they find themselves back in time…. Read More

This award-winning documentary follows the incredible 10 years of two families who have children with the very rare, inherited disorder called “AADC Deficiency”… Read More

★Special Appearance by Director Miyuki Tokoi★
24-year-old Takamasa Kobayashi has been trying to find his true gender since childhood. Born as a girl, he was one of the first students in Japan to persuade a junior high school to accept a female as a boy… Read More

Director Makoto Nagahisa made his feature-length directorial debut bursting with hyper pop style and unrestrained imagination… Read More

★ Special Appearance by Director Naoko Nobutomo
This award-winning documentary was made as a TV program based on director Nobutomo’s incredible life experiences—10 years prior… Read More

A huge creature shows up on top of a building of an ordinary city prompting the Defense Forces to go into action. Yuki, a brave-hearted and… Read More

JFFSF and DigiCon6 collaborate to bring 13 award-winning animation shorts to showcase the splendors of imagination colorfully expressed… Read More

Utano☆Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom brings the idols of ST☆RISH, QUARTET NIGHT and HE☆VENS to the stage, where UtaPri fans will witness their favorite… Read More

Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory is a live performance film captured… Read More

On the main street of the Yoshiwara pleasure district, the top courtesan Yatsuhashi makes a luxurious… Read More

To American photojournalist Regina Boone, her paternal grandfather was an enigma. He was a hard-working Japanese immigrant… Read More

This film is 22-year-old director Hiroshi Okuyama’s first feature-length film that was also written, shot, and edited by him…. Read More

Our popular collaboration with Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia is back to exclusively premiere a collection of award-winning short films… Read More

Director Fushihara’s delicate and heartwarming documentary follows the life of 90-year-old architect Shuichi Tsubata and his 87-year-old wife, Hideko… Read More

This film is based on the autobiography of Shoji Segawa, a unique shogi (Japanese chess) player who left his daytime job and turned pro at the age of thirty-five… Read More

On March 11, 2011, a huge tsunami generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake struck Japan’s northeastern coast, including Kesennuma in Miyagi… Read More

Director Yuko HAKOTA makes her feature film debut in BLUE HOUR, where HAKOTA uniquely and masterfully gouges raw emotion mixed with reality and fantasy as she depicts natural scenery and memory… Read More

Directed by the up-and-coming Sho Miyake, this film is an adaptation of the solitary author Sato Yasushi’s coming-of-age novel with the setting moved from Tokyo to Hakodate. Young talented actors including… Read More

Based on a non-fiction masterpiece written by author Watanabe Kazufumi. Thirty-four-year-old Shikano Yasuaki can only move his neck and hands… Read More