JFF Theatre

https://en.jff.jpf.go.jp/ What's available changes periodically.

anime - Time of EVE the movie, 106 minutes
stop motion animations - YASHIRO Takeshi - Pukkulapottas and Hours in the Forest; Gon, The Little Fox; Moon of a Sleepless Night; Norman the Snowman, The Northern Lights; Norman the Snowman, On a Night of Shooting Stars

(note to myself: PTW anime series for Time of EVE, ReLIFE)  2025 movie challenge

Elisheva Aug 30, 2024
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  • It's a Summer Film

    1. It's a Summer Film

    Japanese Movie - 2021

    7.0

    I'm not sure what to make of this except it was worth the time. Might Should have watched again :)

  • Sumodo - The Successors of Samurai

    2. Sumodo - The Successors of Samurai

    Japanese Movie - 2020

    7.5

    I finally made it through a Japanese documentary (no shade, my options are limited, they tend to be somewhat slow paced, assume big picture knowledge i lack and go into finer detail than my limited knowledge can sustain strong enough interest in), so that rates as a big compliment here :) Ryuden's personality was a big help.

  • Happy Flight

    3. Happy Flight

    Japanese Movie - 2008

    8.0

    They really made this work.

  • Tora-san in Goto

    4. Tora-san in Goto

    Japanese Movie - 2016

    8.0

    This was really well done. I can't be comfortable with the father or a family business so dependent on child labour, but much respect for the film makers.

  • ReLIFE

    5. ReLIFE

    Japanese Movie - 2017

    9.0

    I really loved the friend group and their interactions. It felt like nostalgia for something I never had.

  • The Great Passage

    6. The Great Passage

    Japanese Movie - 2013

    sadly not available to me

  • Key of Life

    7. Key of Life

    Japanese Movie - 2012

    9.0

    Very dark, measured and often subdued comedy.

  • Under the Open Sky

    8. Under the Open Sky

    Japanese Movie - 2020

    10

    intense, quiet, beautiful, difficult, hopeful, sad, contrasts.

  • Her Love Boils Bathwater

    9. Her Love Boils Bathwater

    Japanese Movie - 2016

    10

    Somewhat disjointed in the beginning before it settles. Slow and gentle pacing but intense in emotion, wonderful found family dynamic

    it was hard though, without that Thai way of cradling pain and grief

  • The God of Ramen

    10. The God of Ramen

    Japanese Movie - 2013

    8.0

    Slow, sometimes stark, bio-documentary about the later years of a man's life, but also his love for his wife and work.

  • Bread of Happiness

    11. Bread of Happiness

    Japanese Movie - 2012

    8.5

    A fairy tale I think, about loss and healing.

  • Project Dreams: How to Build Mazinger Z's Hangar

    Utterly bonkers parody and very well done.

  • My Broken Mariko

    13. My Broken Mariko

    Japanese Movie - 2022

    10

    see summer JFF online festival list, didn't get around to watching again

  • I Am What I Am

    14. I Am What I Am

    Japanese Movie - 2022

    10
  • School Meals Time Graduation

    15. School Meals Time Graduation

    Japanese Movie - 2022

    7.5
  • A Handful of Salt

    16. A Handful of Salt

    Japanese Movie - 2011

    10

    So much work went into this, as befits the labour-intensive subject.
    (Ishikawa: Handful of Salt, Genealogy of Sake, Traditional Puppet Theatre: Bound by Spirits)

  • Itomichi

    17. Itomichi

    Japanese Movie - 2021

    10

    Coming of age done a bit differently. Really loved this one.
    (Aomori: Ito, Ki & Ki (shamisen), Aomori Museum of Art)

    Loved it even more the second time. There's a magic to it I don't know how to put into words.

  • The Genealogy of Sake

    18. The Genealogy of Sake

    Japanese Movie - 2015

    4.0

    i'm just going to consider this a meditative experience more than learning :)

  • Three Sisters

    19. Three Sisters

    Japanese Movie - 2014

    8.0

    Gentle, very slice of life. Marriage, relationships and an unconventional family.

  • Love of the Great Tug of War

    20. Love of the Great Tug of War

    Japanese Movie - 2021

    7.0

    It's like a plucky business making a success of itself against the odds drama, with love stories, compressed into a movie.
    (Not literally, it's an unassuming son proving himself to his father through the medium of an old local tradition.)
    (Kagoshima: Love and the Grand Tug of War, Three Sisters, Kirishima Open Air Museum)

  • Nabbie's Love

    21. Nabbie's Love

    Japanese Movie - 1999

    9.5

    Fascinatingly odd slice of life. Drops into Irish music, Appalachian, Carmen's Habanera, the Star Spangled Banner on sanshin, silent film and old home movies. Sometimes crude, sometimes gentle.
    (Okinawa: Nabbie's Love, Ryukyu Buyo: Okinawan, Honensai: Prayers for the Harvest, Sakurazaka Theater, Nago City Hall - Built Environment)

  • One Cut of the Dead

    22. One Cut of the Dead

    Japanese Movie - 2017

    9.0

    Japanese work ethic harnessed to mayhem. Very clever.

  • Shinmai Kisha Torokko: Watashi ga Yaraneba Dare ga Yaru!

    The Scoop

  • Have a Song on Your Lips

    24. Have a Song on Your Lips

    Japanese Movie - 2015

  • Come Back Anytime

    25. Come Back Anytime

    Japanese Movie - 2021

  • Takano Tofuten no Haru

    26. Takano Tofuten no Haru

    Japanese Movie - 2023

  • Mottainai Kitchen

    27. Mottainai Kitchen

    Japanese Movie - 2020

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