Welcome To JFF 2026! Ireland's only truly national film festival
Featured Films
Tokyo Taxi
Yoji Yamada, 2025
Tokyo taxi driver Koji works long hours as he tries to make ends meet for his family. One day, he picks up a passenger - the elderly Takano Sumire - who is moving to a nursing home outside the city. Before the drive to her new home, Takano asks Koji
An Autumn Afternoon
Yasujiro Ozu, 1962
Yasujiro Ozu’s final film is one of the great director’s finest works. Revisiting the themes and story of Ozu’s earlier classic Late Spring (1949), An Autumn Afternoon stars his regular collaborator Chishu Ryu as Hirayama - an ageing widower un
The Curse
Kenichi Ugana, 2025
When Riko spots some odd, disturbing online posts from her Taiwanese friend Shufen, she attempts to intervene. She’s shocked to discover her friend actually died in mysterious, violent circumstances several months earlier. Determined to find out w
Exit 8
Genki Kawamura, 2026
During his subway commute, a man receives some unexpected news from his ex-girlfriend. Overcome with panic and uncertainty, the man wanders away from the crowds and winds up in a strange underground corridor. When he follows the sign to the exit, how
Leave the Cat Alone
Daisuke Shigaya, 2025
Mori finds himself unable to bridge the quiet distance growing between him and his wife, Maiko, a photographer. A chance reunion with an old friend, Asako, awakens in him a long-forgotten affection. Asako also remembers being drawn to Mori. Yet their
Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988
Katsuhiro Otomo's cyberpunk classic Akira makes its welcome return to the big screen. In a dystopian neo-Tokyo, Kaneda and Tetsuo are members of a vigilante biker gang. When his best friend Tetsuo is captured by the authorities after an accident, the
Welcome To JFF 2026! Ireland's only truly national film festival
Welcome to the Japanese Film Festival 2026!
Full details of this year's lineup are now online!
You can download the full 2026 programme here: PDF