From 20 countries during its inaugural online edition last year, the Japan Foundation's Japanese Film Festival (JFF) expands its reach to 25 countries when the festival returns online for its second edition on February 14-27, 2022.
But for those who can’t wait until February or for those who missed the previous edition, a pre-event stream featuring five films from last year's festival will be screened this November 15-21, 2021 via the Japanese Film Festival website.
The five films to be screened at the Japanese Film Festival 2022 pre-event streaming are as follows.
Little Nights, Little Love/アイネクライネナハトムジーク (2019)
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Director: Imaizumi Rikiya
Cast: Miura Haruma, Tabe Mikako, Harada Taizo
Sato is an employee conducting a survey in front of Sendai Station. Saki takes the survey and the two ultimately become a couple. 10 years later, Sato proposes to Saki on the occasion of their 10th anniversary.
Dance with Me/ダンスウィズミー (2019)
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Director: Yaguchi Shinobu
Cast: Miyoshi Ayaka, Yashiro Yu, Chay
Shizuka works at a big Tokyo trading company and harbors a secret crush on her dashing boss. One weekend she takes her niece to visit a carnival hypnotist to inspire her for an upcoming school musical. But it is Shizuka who falls under the spell and she is soon breaking uncontrollably into song and dance whenever she hears music. Shizuka must embark on a cross country hunt for the hypnotist to break the spell, singing and dancing all the way!
The Great Passage/舟を編む (2013)
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Director: Ishii Yuya
Cast: Matsuda Ryuhei, Miyazaki Aoi, Odagiri Joe
Drama about the passion of an editor who struggles to create a dictionary, as depicted over a fifteen-year period.
Publishing house salesman Majime has an earnestness about him that sets him apart from his peers. But he has a discerning sensibility when it comes to language, which lands him in the dictionary editorial department. He ends up editing “The Great Passage,” a huge dictionary with 240,000 entries.
Gon, the Little Fox/八代健志ストップモーションアニメーション：ごん (2019)
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Director: YashiroTakeshi
When Gon, a playful orphaned fox, finds that young Hyoju has lost his mother, he tries to comfort him and make amends for his own earlier mischiefs by secretly bringing small gifts to the boy every day. But Hyoju doesn’t realize who is behind the anonymous gifts, and the two are headed for a heartbreaking climax.
Tora-san in Goto/五島のトラさん (2016)
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Director: Masaru Oura
Cast: Torao Inuzuka
A documentary shot from 1993 and over 22 years chronicled a large family who make their living as udon noodle makers on the Goto Archipelago in Nagasaki Prefecture. It was awarded the Magnolia Award for Best Documentary at the 22nd Shanghai TV Festival. Inuzuka Torao, known as “Tora of Goto” runs an udon noodle making business on the Goto Archipelago. Every day, his seven children wake up at 5 AM, help with the business for an hour, then head for school. Over the 22 years the documentary follows them, the children all grow up.
Just like before, one just have to register at the Japanese Film Festival website and log in to be able to view the films once they are available for screening.
The previous edition encountered problems with mobile devices that were unable to screen the films despite meeting the technical requirements. It is with great hope that this issue has been settled already and that those who failed to see any of the films last year can somehow make up with what they've missed with this pre-event stream.
The Japanese Film Festival Online 2022 scheduled for February 14-27, 2022 will announce the lineup of around 20 films in mid-January 2022. In addition to the movies, the festival will also produce a variety of Japanese cinema related content similar to last year that includes events and special feature articles to be published at the Japanese Film Festival website.
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