Japanese Film Festival 2021 Program Booklet by The Japan Foundation, Sydney

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About Welcome to the 25th Japanese Film Festival (JFF) in Australia! After two years, we’re so excited to bring the latest and greatest Japanese films back to cinemas across the country. This year, our program tells the stories of those who dare to dream beyond limitations. From overcoming loss to breaking ties with stifling societal expectations, JFF 2021 celebrates resilience in the face of adversity. When you join us in the cinema this year, you might meet characters including the great artist Hokusai, an ex-yakuza struggling with life after prison, a quirky thirty-something woman navigating single life in Tokyo, or an orphaned chef who is determined to cook her way to the top. Featuring the latest box office hits alongside rare 35mm and 16mm film prints from the late avant-garde auteur Shūji Terayama, this year’s selection is truly a diverse mix.

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The JFF is presented by The Japan Foundation, Sydney and tours major cities across Australia. Alongside this, JFF offers a free Satellite program that travels to regional centres. Thank you to our delightful audiences, generous sponsors, and wonderful volunteers for 25 years of celebrating Japanese cinema!

Government Partners

JFF Director Yurika Sugie

Venue Partners

JFF Programmers Susan Bui, Simonne Goran & Chiara Pallini Assisted by Mai Le, Manisay Oudomvilay & Annabelle Gorga Presented by

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A-Z Guide to JFF 2021 Films AI Amok AI崩壊

+ 10

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

+ 22

Dance With Me

+ 24

ドロステのはてで僕ら

ダンスウィズミー

Farewell to the Ark

さらば箱舟

+ 19

Junk Head

Last of the Wolves 孤狼の血 Level 2

+ 22

+ 10

+ 15

Little Nights, Little Love

+ 25

アイネクライネナハトムジーク

+ 24

Masked Ward

Grass Labyrinth

+ 18

Mio’s Cookbook

Hokusai

+ 06

Not Quite Dead Yet

+ 15

Hold Me Back

+ 26

Pastoral Hideand-Seek

+ 19

草迷宮

Hokusai

私をくいとめて

It’s a Summer Film!

サマーフィルムにのって

仮面病棟

みをつくし料理帖

一度死んでみた

+ 13

Sumodo ~ The Successors of Samurai ~

+ 21

相撲道〜サムライを継ぐ者たち〜

The Cornered Mouse + 27 Dreams of Cheese

+ 11

窮鼠はチーズの夢を見る

+ 14

鹿の王

The Deer King

+ 08

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill

+ 09

The Fruits of Passion

+ 17

The Great Passage

+ 25

ザ・ファブル殺さない殺し屋

上海異人娼館

田園に死す

+ 23

Poupelle of Chimney + 08 Town

映画えんとつ町のプペル

Step

ステップ

Gon, The Little Fox

ごん

+ 21

夢みる人今敏

Liar x Liar

ライアー×ライアー

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist

舟を編む

The Night Beyond the + 11 Tricornered Window

さんかく窓の外側は夜

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

+ 17

書を捨てよ町へ出よう

The Deer King Tokyo Revengers

+ 09

Tora-san in Goto

+ 25

True Mothers

+ 13

Under the Open Sky

+ 12

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

+ 12

東京リベンジャーズ

五島のトラさん

朝が来る

すばらしき世界

Last of the Wolves

偶然と想像

Grass Labyrinth

OPENING NIGHT Hokusai

Hokusai Director: Hajime Hashimoto 2020 + 129mins UNCL: 15+ (contains violence and mild nudity)

DRAMA

An artist’s fight to remain true to himself Featuring a star-studded cast, director Hajime Hashimoto’s biopic depicts the frantic life of legendary Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai, in all its glory and setbacks. The story begins at the end of the Edo period, when popular culture was suppressed by the shogunate and labeled as ‘morally corrupt’. Nonetheless, famous publisher Tsutaya Jūzaburō discovers the talent of a young and immature Hokusai, and is determined to help him find his unique style. After a tragic loss in his later years, an artistically mature Hokusai revisits his view of art as a political act against the system.

OPENING FILM SCREENING DETAILS

SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING DETAILS

JFF 2021 will open with the Australian premiere of Hokusai, a biopic detailing the life of the legendary Japanese painter. Attendees will get the chance to win prizes from Choya, and participate in giveaways of Monster Beer!

Delve into the fascinating world of Hokusai and the history of Japanese woodblock prints in a special post-film talk presented by experts from around Australia.

Canberra + Palace Electric Thursday 28 October, 19:00 Perth + Palace Raine Square Thursday 4 November 19:30 Brisbane + Palace Barracks Thursday 11 November 19:00 Melbourne + The Kino Thursday 18 November 19:20 Sydney + Palace Norton St Thursday 25 November 19:20

Melbourne Sunday 21 November Screening: 17:00 - 19:20 Talk: 19:20 - 19:45 Wayne Crothers Senior Curator of Asian Art at National Gallery of Victoria Sydney Sunday 5 December Screening: 15:00 - 17:20 Talk: 17:20 - 17:45 Melanie Eastburn Senior Curator of Asian Art at Art Gallery of New South Wales 7

Poupelle of Chimney Town

The Deer King

Director: Yūsuke Hirota 2020 + 101mins

Director: Masashi Andō & Masayuki Miyaji 2021 + 113mins

UNCL: All ages

UNCL: 15+ (contains violence)

A film for the dreamers, believers and stargazers

A high-fantasy anime adventure

映画えんとつ町のプペル

Based on Akihiro Nishino’s best-selling children’s book of the same name, Poupelle of Chimney Town is Studio 4°C’s (Children of the Sea) finest work to date. The story follows Lubbichi, a young chimney sweep who sets off in search of the stars beyond the dreary blanket of smoke that constantly cloaks Chimney Town. Along the way he befriends a man made of garbage whom he christens Poupelle, and together the two embark on a whirlwind adventure that sweeps through the grimy steampunk-esque town at roller coaster speeds.

ANIME

鹿の王

Production I.G, the acclaimed anime studio that brought us Ghost in the Shell and Miss Hokusai, is back with a new masterpiece. Taking place in the years following a vicious war, The Deer King tells the epic fantasy story of a world that has fallen prey to the deadly Black Wolf disease. Mysteriously, only two have managed to outlive the illness; former soldier Van, who is the sole survivor of his clan, and a little girl called Yuna. The two find themselves caught up in the conflict, as they are believed to be the cure to the epidemic.

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill ザ・ファブル殺さない殺し屋 Director: Kan Eguchi 2021 + 131mins UNCL: 15+ (contains strong violence, sexual references and gore)

Tokyo Revengers 東京リベンジャーズ

Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa 2021 + 120mins UNCL: 15+ (contains strong violence and coarse language)

Hitman lured out of his sabbatical

“Go back in time, change the future, save the girl”, yankee style

Now living an ordinary life under the pseudonym Akira Satō, Fable (Junichi Okada) works part-time creating comical child-like illustrations for a design company, while freeloading off his partner in crime Yōko (Fumino Kimura), who poses as his squabbling sister. It’s not long before the mythical hitman Fable is lured out of his sabbatical. This time his yakuza history is compromised by Hinako (Yurina Hirate), an orphaned girl in a wheelchair he meets at a park. But not everything is as it seems, and it turns out their paths have crossed before in a chaotic past incident…

Good-for-nothing Takemichi (Takumi Kitamura) is living a dead end life, when he finds out that his high school sweetheart Hinata (Mio Imada) and her brother Naoto (Yōsuke Sugino) have been killed by the Tokyo Manji gang. It’s not long before Takemichi is also attacked, and is pushed in front of an oncoming train. But instead of dying, he finds himself back in his high school days, 10 years into the past, and suddenly able to jump between timelines. Takemichi uses his newfound ability to embark on a mission that will change destiny, saving Hinata and Naoto from their tragic fate.

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ACTION

Last of the Wolves

AI Amok

Director: Kazuya Shiraishi 2021 + 139mins

Director: Yū Irie 2020 + 131mins

UNCL: 18+ (contains strong violence, sexual violence, gore, drug use, themes, coarse language and nudity)

UNCL: All ages (contains mild violence and themes)

孤狼の血 Level2

This cutthroat saga gets taken to the next level! Three years on, The Blood of Wolves (JFF 2018) saga continues with the ferocious and hyperbolic Last of the Wolves. After police detective Shōgo Ōgami’s death in Hiroshima, his protégé, detective Shūichi Hioka (Tōri Matsuzaka) is left with the responsibility of keeping the yakuza gangs in check. Thanks to the help of his informant Chinta (Nijirō Murakami), who infiltrates the yakuza undercover, bloodshed has been avoided and countless lives protected from the outbursts of gang wars. But this complex equilibrium is suddenly in jeopardy when the sadistic and hot blooded gangster Uebayashi (Ryōhei Suzuki) is released from prison.

ACTION

AI崩壊

Totalitarian tech triage! It’s 2030 and medical AI ‘Nozomi’ benevolently protects the welfare of the citizens. After the untimely death of his collaborator-wife, Nozomi’s creator Kiryū (Takao Ōsawa) lives reclusively until beckoned back to Japan to receive an award. However, his warm reception sours when the god-like AI malfunctions at the expense of human life, and Kiryū is suddenly a suspected cyber-terrorist on the run. This tech nightmare from director Yū Irie (Memoirs of a Murderer) packs tense chase scenes and slick effects into a Black Mirror-esque suspense.

MYSTERY

The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window さんかく窓の外側は夜

Director: Yukihiro Morigaki 2021 + 102mins UNCL: 15+ (contains moderate violence, gore and themes)

Exorcism, necromancy, and bonds to the past Haunted by visions of the dead, timid Mikado is recruited by dashing supernatural investigator Hiyakawa. Bonding their sixth senses, the duo look into a series of grisly murders, exorcising ghosts and unearthing clues. One name keeps coming up in Mikado’s visions: the elusive Erika Hiura. Based on a yaoi manga series, this occult mystery unleashes a consuming darkness, both human and otherworldly. Jun Shison and Masaki Okada’s chemistry is magnetic alongside young star Yurina Hirate (Hibiki; former Sakurazaka46 idol).

Masked Ward 仮面病棟

Director: Hisashi Kimura 2020 + 114mins UNCL: 15+ (contains violence and mild language)

We all conceal our real intentions behind a mask… Shūgo Hayami (Kentarō Sakaguchi, Color Me True, JFF 2018) is a substitute doctor at a former psychiatric hospital. One day, he finds himself confronting a terrifying criminal wearing a clown mask, who demands that Shūgo treat an injured university student called Hitomi (Mei Nagano, Mixed Doubles, JFF 2018). But when Hitomi is out of danger and the masked man won’t leave, Shūgo realises that both the clown and the hospital staff are concealing more than meets the eye. Based on the medical mystery novel by real-life doctor Mikito Chinen, Masked Ward isn’t your average hostage thriller.

MYSTERY

Under the Open Sky

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Director: Miwa Nishikawa 2021 + 126mins

Director: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi 2021 + 121mins

UNCL: 15+ (contains violence and drug use)

UNCL: 15+ (contains sexual references)

Old (yakuza) habits die hard

A triptych of vignettes bound together by memory, coincidence and desire

すばらしき世界

Director Miwa Nishikawa (The Long Excuse, JFF 2016) paints a serious drama following hardened ex-yakuza Mikami after thirteen years behind bars. Released but discarded by society, he sets out to reclaim his story and find his long-lost mother by teaming up with young TV director Tsunoda. Mikami’s brash altercations with the outside world provide ample drama for Tsunoda, but friction grows behind the scenes. Kōji Yakusho’s Silver Hugo winning lead performance is compelling and nuanced, making for a poignant redemption drama.

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偶然と想像

Charming and unpredictable, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is a trio of short stories with no apparent connection, describing intimate slices of life filtered through the eyes of modern Japanese women. The director expertly guides his complex female protagonists through a path of redemption and epiphany, with emotionally authentic exchanges between the characters playing out like poetry on the screen. Coincidence plays a major role in these stories, leaving audiences to ponder how the right and wrong paths taken in life are sometimes simply shaped by chance. Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize Berlin IFF 2021

DRAMA

Step

ステップ Director: Ken Iizuka 2020 + 118mins UNCL: All ages (contains mild themes)

The lingering, fading shadow of grief The sudden death of a young mother opens a well of grief in the family, leaving single dad Kenichi to raise baby Miki alone, while he stays numbly resistant to help. As Miki grows up, he has little time to heal as he fumbles through parenthood. With his in-laws also clinging to his wife’s memory, Kenichi is aware of his daughter’s sensitivities, and the next decade brings many ups and downs to family life. This adaptation of celebrated author Kiyoshi Shigematsu’s contemporary family drama is subtle and reflective.

True Mothers 朝が来る

Director: Naomi Kawase 2020 + 139mins UNCL: All ages (contains mild sexual references and themes)

A tender viewing of motherhood Critically acclaimed director Naomi Kawase returns with the emotionallycharged drama True Mothers. Well-to-do couple Satoko and Kiyokazu seem to have it all. But in reality the pair yearn for a child of their own yet struggle to conceive. Almost at the point of defeat, they are presented with one last ray of hope. The couple happen across an adoption agency, offering them a real chance at parenthood with the arrival of their baby boy Asato. Six happy years together go by when they are suddenly confronted by an unfamiliar woman, who claims to be Asato’s birth mother and demands him back. Feature Film of the Ecumenical Jury Award at the Frigbourg International Film Festival 2021

DRAMA

Mio's Cookbook みをつくし料理帖

Director: Haruki Kadokawa 2020 + 131mins UNCL: All ages (contains mild violence and themes)

DRAMA

A visual feast, bursting with umami! Inseparable friends Mio and Noe grew up carefree in Osaka until the great flood of 1801 tore them apart. Orphaned Mio (Honoka Matsumoto) finds refuge with a kind restaurant owner, and her Kansai cooking skills follow her to a new life in Edo, opening unexpected opportunities. Balancing the taste of home with the local palate, Mio’s story is a nourishing testament to the power of food in bringing people together. From opulence in the pleasure quarter of Yoshiwara to the beauty of daily life, this period drama is a visual feast, best enjoyed with dinner plans!

Not Quite Dead Yet

Liar x Liar

Director: Shinji Hamasaki 2020 + 93mins

Director: Saiji Yakumo 2021 + 117mins

UNCL: All ages

UNCL: All ages (contains mild themes)

Undead comedy chaos

One love triangle, two people?!

Metalhead singer Nanase can’t catch a break–her emotionally clueless dad is expecting her to quit her band and join his big-time pharmaceutical company, while she wishes out loud that he’d just… drop dead. When his company accidentally develops a temporary death drug, her morbid dreams are realised and chaos ensues. Purgatory has never looked better in this offbeat comedy starring Suzu Hirose (Chihayafuru) from feature-film debut director Shinji Hamasaki.

For years, university student Minato (Nana Mori) has been bullied by jealous girls thanks to her stepbrother Tōru (Hokuto Matsumura), a notoriously handsome ladies man. Her life is turned upside down when an unrecognisable Minato accidentally bumps into Tōru while wearing a wig, high school uniform and gaudy makeup. When she pretends to be a younger student named Mina, Tōru falls in love instantly, and she goes along with the lie to get sweet revenge against her stepbrother. Liar x Liar follows the story of a bizarre love triangle, as Minato’s simple prank evolves into the biggest lie she’s ever told!

一度死んでみた

ライアー×ライアー

COMEDY

JFF SPECIAL SERIES 2021 Director in Focus: Shūji Terayama, the great provocateur

This year’s Special Series honours the prolific and multifaceted artistic career of Shūji Terayama (1935-1983). From the mid 1960s to the early 1970s, Angura (underground) theatre, which imported ‘freak show’ elements, twisted eroticism and the reinstatement of folklore that had been excluded from modern theatre, reached its zenith in Japan as an antiestablishment movement. Terayama founded the internationally acclaimed theatre troop ‘Tenjō Sajiki’, and was at the centre of this experimental scene. However, his creation was not limited to theatre, and as an avant-garde filmmaker, playwright, poet, photographer and social and cultural commentator, Terayama worked inventively across artforms, and was a leading figure in the ‘expanded cinema’ being explored in post-WWII Japan. 16

SPECIAL SERIES

Terayama’s daring and remarkable oeuvre is impossible to summarise in this select film series. Nevertheless, the program presents a handful of the late auteur’s short and feature-length cinematic work showcasing his signature transgressive approach to filmmaking. From dismantling concepts of time, history and myth to visually audacious portrayals of sexual and political revolution–these films are at once unexpectedly beautiful and discomforting. This free Special Series program is made possible by The Japan Foundation Film Library.

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets 書を捨てよ町へ出よう

Director: Shūji Terayama 1971 + 137mins UNCL: 15+ (contains violence, sexual violence, animal cruelty, nudity and sexual references)

“A lizard in a coke bottle”: An analysis of youth and society against the backdrop of the American counter-culture. With his first feature-length film, Shūji Terayama presents the provocative and disturbing cinematic adaptation of his celebrated novel and play of the same name. Noise rock and psychedelic vignettes frame the rebellious and tumultuous society that is home to Hideaki, a dissatisfied, angstridden teen dealing with his highly dysfunctional family. In typical Terayama style, the main story is interrupted by shorter narratives introducing various strangers, who are all a part of this social explosion that the director translates into a poetically powerful stream of consciousness, accompanying different cinematic styles with singalong protest music. © 1971 Toho Co., Ltd.

The Fruits of Passion 上海異人娼館

Director: Shūji Terayama 1981 + 86mins + 35mm R 18+

Erotic art-house fare with a political backdrop Shūji Terayama and mainstream French producer Anatole Dauman (In the Realm of the Senses) relocate the characters Sir Stephen (Klaus Kinski) and his young lover O (Isabelle Illiers) from the novel Return to the Château by Anne Desclos to 1920s Southern China, where O is sent to a brothel to prove her unconditional love and obedience to her lecherous lover. A local anti-imperialist insurrection and the struggle of an impoverished young man are collateral vignettes to O’s erotically humiliating experience, and are cleverly used by Terayama to portray his idea of sex as a form of political revenge. Warning - explicit sexual content.

Grass Labyrinth 草迷宮

SPECIAL GUEST EVENT

Entering the Labyrinth: Shūji Terayama’s Kusa-meikyū In a post-film talk event, Shayne Bowden will offer a historical contextualisation of Shūji Terayama’s literary, film and theatre work as well as an overview of the influences that informed the director’s artistic output. Sydney Saturday 27 November Screening: 14:00 - 14:40 Talk: 14:40 - 15:15 Shayne Bowden PhD candidate in the Department of Languages and Culture at The University of Sydney

SPECIAL SERIES

Director: Shūji Terayama 1979 + 40mins + 35mm UNCL: 18+ (contains strong themes, violence, nudity and sexual references)

The murkiness and binds of memory Originally included in a French movie package called Private Collections, Grass Labyrinth is a compendium of Terayama’s most travelled themes. A renowned master in the Japanese avant-garde scene, the director leads us through the surreal psychodramatic adventures of Akira, a young boy on the verge of sexual maturity who is seeking the long-forgotten lyrics of a childhood lullaby. Thanks to an unconventional and heavily symbolic narrative, we are guided through this sensual yet unsettling journey fueled by obsession, attraction, seduction and sexual repression, leading to the true meaning behind Akira’s restless quest. © 1979 FILMS DU JEUDI ©1979 Les Films du Jeudi-Toei

Pastoral Hide-and-Seek

Farewell to the Ark

Director: Shūji Terayama 1974 + 102mins + 35mm

Director: Shūji Terayama 1984 + 127mins + 16mm

UNCL: 18+ (contains strong themes, violence, nudity and sexual references)

UNCL: 15+ (contains strong themes, violence, nudity and sexual references)

A radical destabilisation of memory and myth

“Come back in a hundred years’ time. After a hundred years you’ll understand.”

田園に死す

Starting with a series of haiku poems about his childhood, Terayama takes us through his cathartic and epiphanic quest for self-discovery, as important highlights from the director’s youth unfold before our eyes. A spellbinding journey that elegantly intertwines the director’s memories and fantasy, Pastoral Hide-and-Seek is a metaphorical and sensory experience where each shot is imbued with rich and symbolic meaning. Fellinian superstitious villagers and the caricaturesque inhabitants of a pop-up circus are just some examples of what the director’s reckless imagination creates in order to face his past, and come to terms with dramatic and sobering truths.

さらば箱舟

Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Farewell to the Ark was released shortly after Terayama’s premature death. Sutekichi and his cousin Su-e are in love, attracting the attention and insults of the superstitious inhabitants of a remote village. When Sutekichi murders his rival Daisaku, the couple decides to flee from the village, but Sutekichi is haunted by Daisaku’s ghost and increasingly affected by the unforgiving course of time. Terayama fans will recognise his most quintessential tropes, such as the frustrated and twisted sexuality of his characters, and a poetic yet sobering depiction of human flaws and vulnerability.

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Designers

Oct 15, 2021 — Jan 22, 2022 The Japan Foundation Gallery

PRESENTED BY 20

Katsumi Asaba Shigeo Fukuda Yūsaku Kamekura Ikkō Tanaka Yuri Uenishi Tadanori Yokoo

SUPPORTED BY

Sumodo ~ The Successors of Samurai ~

相撲道〜サムライを継ぐ者たち〜 Director: Eiji Sakata 2020 + 104mins UNCL: All ages

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist 夢みる人今敏

Director: Pascal-Alex Vincent 2021 + 82mins Japanese, French & English with English Subtitles UNCL: All ages

“Everyday is a traffic accident” when you’re a sumo wrestler

Behind the genius that blurred reality and fiction

Moving and insightful, Eiji Sakata’s documentary offers an eye-opening look into the intimate workings of what it means to be a professional sumo wrestler in modern Japan. Considered to be the descendants of samurai, these ‘gentlemen of strength’ undergo years of grueling training in order to earn their place amongst the best of the best. The film follows two giants in the field, Gōeidō Gōtarō and Ryūden Gōshi, as they prepare to battle it out on the legendary stage of Ryōgoku Kokugikan.

Ten years after his untimely passing, this moving documentary honours the life and work of Satoshi Kon (1963– 2010). The highly revered animator and director leaves behind an impressive body of work, and his legacy remains a major cultural influence on the animation world today. Fans of Kon will know him for his brilliant works, from the jarring thriller Perfect Blue (1997) to the reality-bending Paprika (2006). Featuring interviews with his equally acclaimed contemporaries Mamoru Oshii, Darren Aronofksy, Mamoru Hosoda and more, this outstanding documentary is a fitting tribute to Kon and his exceptional work.

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DOCUMENTARY

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

Junk Head

Director: Junta Yamaguchi 2020 + 70mins

Director: Takahide Hori 2021 + 101mins

UNCL: All ages (contains mild language and violence)

UNCL: 15+ (contains violence, gore and mild language)

The Droste effect has never been so loopy!

140,000 photos give life to a creatively twisted labour of love

After a regular day of work at his café, Katō hears his computer screen talking to him, and is met with a bewildering sight—it’s another version of himself, but from two minutes into the future! When future Katō instructs him to check the TV in his café, he discovers that the two screens are mysteriously linked by a two-minute delay. Of course, once Katō’s nosey friends catch wind of his new-found ability to see the future, they can’t resist trying to use it for their own personal gain, leading to hilarious antics and some very questionable decisions. As this confused timeline goes on, Katō’s longtime crush and some yakuza enter the picture, while a greedily desired ‘time echo’ accelerates the fiasco.

In a distant, dystopian future, the earth has become uninhabitable and humans have lost their ability to procreate. The protagonist, a lone cyborg explorer, is sent on a mission underground to uncover the secrets of the Marigans–a super artificial life-form with incredible reproductive capabilities. During this perilous descent he encounters both terrifying enemies and loyal allies, before learning about a legendary ‘tree of life’, the only hope left for the future of humanity.

ドロステのはてで僕ら

Winner of the Golden Bat award for Best Film at the Fantafestival 2021

INDIE

Junk Head

Winner of Best Animated Feature at Fantasia Film Festival 2017, Takahide Hori’s stop motion animation is a grotesque and surreal masterpiece, resulting from seven years of solitary, dedicated cinematic work. Best animated feature Fantasia Film Festival 2017 © 2021 MAGNET/YAMIKEN

It’s a Summer Film!

サマーフィルムにのって Director: Sōshi Matsumoto 2020 + 97mins UNCL: All ages

School’s out; samurai swords out! School’s out for summer and a nerdy sci-fi and samurai film fan trio is making Hadashi’s directorial debut, a DIY, cinematic masterpiece—the ultimate teen tribute to her old school samurai heroes! With her bubbly film club rival in the director’s chair of a cheesy romance film, Hadashi (Barefoot) turns her film fantasies into a battle of honour, samurai-style. When cute and mysterious Rintarō lands in town she’s found her leading man, but there’s more to him than meets the eye. Former idol Marika Itō (Nogizaka46) shines in her leading role alongside Daichi Kaneko (Ossan’s Love).

YOUTH

15-21 NOVEMBER

JFF ONLINE

Due to the overwhelming success of JFF Plus: Online Film Festival last year, we’re bringing back the best of 2020 for one week only!

Screening for free from 15-21 November. Available to everyone Australia-wide. Visit: jff.jpf.go.jp

Dance With Me

Gon, The Little Fox

ダンスウィズミー

ごん

Director: Shinobu Yaguchi 2019 + 119mins

Director: Takeshi Yashiro 2015 + 27mins

UNCL: All ages

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!

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.

MUSICAL

ANIMATION

Tora-san in Goto 五島のトラさん

Director: Masaru Oura 2016 + 114mins UNCL: All ages

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. Inuzuka Torao, known as “Tora of Goto” runs an udon noodle making business on the Goto Archipelago. Everyday, his seven children wake up at 5am, help with the business for an hour, then head for school. Over the 22 years the documentary follows them, the children all grow up.

Little Nights, Little Love

アイネクライネナハトムジーク Director: Rikiya Imaizumi 2019 + 119mins UNCL: 15+

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.

DOCUMENTARY

ROMANCE

The Great Passage

舟を編む

Director: Yūya Ishii 2013 + 133mins UNCL: 15+

Drama about the passion of an editor who struggles to create a dictionary, as depicted over a fifteenyear 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.

SPECIAL GUEST EVENT

Modern Love

Learn about the evolving attitudes toward romance, relationships and gender norms in Japanese society from the female perspective in two post-film talk events with leading researchers Dr Lucy Fraser and Professor Kaori Okano.

Brisbane Sunday 14 November Screening: 15:30 - 17:50 Talk: 17:50 - 18:15 Dr. Lucy Fraser Lecturer at The University of Queensland Melbourne Saturday 20 November Screening: 15:00 to 17:20 Talk: 17:20 to 17:55 Professor Kaori Okano Professor at La Trobe University

Hold Me Back

私をくいとめて

Director: Akiko Ōku 2020 + 133mins UNCL: All ages (contains mild sexual reference and themes)

Heart over mind or mind over heart? Mitsuko (Non), a 31-year-old office clerk, is living up the single life in Japan. She’s never really alone, though—she goes through life with the help of her logical (and sometimes intrusive) ‘advisor’, or inner voice named ‘A’. But one day, everything changes when Mitsuko slowly finds herself attracted to the awkward younger salesman Tada-kun. At odds with the comfort of single life and the selfliberating ‘A’, Mitsuko wrestles with the existential crisis of being left behind in life when she finds out that her college bestie Satsuki (Ai Hashimoto) is married with a kid on the way. Audience Award at 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) 2020

ROMANCE

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese 窮鼠はチーズの夢を見る Director: Isao Yukisada 2020 + 130mins UNCL: 15+ (contains strong themes, sex scenes and nudity)

Making a mess of love Ever since his university days, Kyōichi Ōtomo (Tadayoshi Ōkura) can’t help but be swept up by the beautiful women that pursue him. Now working at an advertising company, he’s a serial adulterer and as indecisive as ever... that is, until former classmate Wataru Imagase (Ryō Narita) suddenly reappears in his life. Wataru reveals that he has been quietly in love with Kyōichi for the past seven years, and makes an offer he can’t refuse. But while Kyōichi finds himself unable to resist Wataru’s advances, his coldness and emotional unavailability might eventually be their breaking point.

Venues, Dates and Booking Information Canberra

Perth

Brisbane

Melbourne

28 October 02 November

04–07 November

11–21 November

18 November– 05 December

Palace Electric

Palace Raine Square

Palace James Street

The Kino

Box office open 11am-8pm (07) 3852 4488

Box office open 11am-8pm (03) 9650 2100

Palace Barracks

Australian Centre for the Moving Image

2 Phillip Law Street Canberra ACT Box office open 11am-8pm (02) 6222 4900

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

Top Floor, Raine Square 300 Murray Street Perth WA Box office open 11am-8pm (08) 6165 4960

39 James Street Fortitude Valley QLD

61 Petrie Terrace, Brisbane City QLD

McCoy Circuit Acton ACT

Box office open 11am-8pm (07) 3367 1356

Box office open 10am-4pm (02) 6248 2000

45 Collins Street Melbourne VIC

Federation Square, Flinders Street Melbourne VIC Box office open 10am-10pm (03) 8663 2200

Sydney 25 November – 05 December Palace Norton Street

Palace Central

Palace Verona

The Chauvel

Box office open 11am-8pm (02) 9564 5620

Box office open 11am-8pm (02) 9190 2290

Box office open 11am-8pm (02) 9360 6099

Box office open 11am-8pm (02) 9361 5398

99 Norton Street Leichhardt NSW

28 Broadway, Chippendale NSW

Ticket Prices $20

Adult Concession

$18

5 Film Pass

$75

17 Oxford Street Paddington NSW

249 Oxford Street Paddington NSW

5 Film Pass Save money when you book 5 tickets in one transaction. Share with friends or mix and match film sessions for yourself2

Group Bookings2 (10+) $16

1 Available for Palace Members only. Excludes Opening Film and Special Events. All tickets must be purchased in one transaction. 2 Excludes Opening Film and Special Events. All tickets must be purchased in one transaction. Please contact www.palacecinemas.com.au/functions/group-bookings/

Buy your tickets

Festival enquiries

Online japanesefilmfestival.net (Booking fees apply)

The Japan Foundation, Sydney (02) 8239 0055 japanesefilmfestival@jpf.org.au

Box Office

Please call the box office first to confirm if tickets are on sale

COVID-19 Safety The JFF is committed to the wellbeing and safety of all attendees. Please make sure to follow the latest updates on COVID-19 safety guidelines for your city and venue.

Schedule

Canberra 28 October – 02 November Palace Electric Date

Time

28 Oct • Thu 19:00 29 Oct • Fri 29 Oct • Fri

29 Oct • Fri

30 Oct • Sat 30 Oct • Sat

18:00

English Title

Japanese Title Hokusai

Hokusai AI Amok

AI崩壊

Liar x Liar

ライアー×ライアー

Mio's Cookbook

みをつくし料理帖

11:00

It's a Summer Film!

サマーフィルムにのって

13:15

Masked Ward

仮面病棟ステップ

18:00

20:40

The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window さんかく窓の外側は夜

30 Oct • Sat

15:40

18:00

30 Oct • Sat

Step

20:30

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill

ザ・ファブル殺さない殺し屋

Not Quite Dead Yet

一度死んでみた

Under the Open Sky

すばらしき世界

30 Oct • Sat

31 Oct • Sun 12:00

31 Oct • Sun 14:30 31 Oct • Sun 16:30

31 Oct • Sun 19:00

Poupelle of Chimney Town

Sumodo ~ The Successors of Samurai ~

映画えんとつ町のプペル

相撲道〜サムライを継ぐ者たち〜

Genre DRAMA

MYSTERY DRAMA

COMEDY

YOUTH

MYSTERY MYSTERY

DRAMA

ACTION ANIME

COMEDY DOCO

DRAMA

NSFA | Shūji Terayama Series Date

Time English Title

01 Nov • Mon 18:00

Farewell to the Ark

01 Nov • Mon 20:15

Grass Labyrinth

02 Nov • Tues 18:00

Pastoral Hide-and-Seek

02 Nov • Tues 20:15

OPENING

The Fruits of Passion

Special Guest

Includes Lucky Door Prize

Japanese Title さらば箱舟

草迷宮

田園に死す上海異人娼館

Genre SPECIAL

SPECIAL SPECIAL

SPECIAL

All films are in Japanese with English subtitles.

Schedules may be subject to change. For the most updated schedule, visit japanesefilmfestival.net

Schedule

Perth 04–07 November Palace Raine Square Date

Time

04 Nov • Thu 19:30

English Title Hokusai

Japanese Title Hokusai

鹿の王

05 Nov • Fri

18:00

05 Nov • Fri

The Deer King

20:30

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill

ザ・ファブル殺さない殺し屋

It's a Summer Film!

サマーフィルムにのって

06 Nov • Sat 11:00

06 Nov • Sat 12:00 06 Nov • Sat 13:40

06 Nov • Sat 14:30

06 Nov • Sat 17:00 06 Nov • Sat 20:00

07 Nov • Sun 11:00

07 Nov • Sun 12:00 07 Nov • Sun 13:30

07 Nov • Sun 14:30

07 Nov • Sun 16:30

07 Nov • Sun 19:00

AI Amok

AI崩壊

Step

ステップ

Mio's Cookbook

みをつくし料理帖

Liar x Liar

ライアー×ライアー

True Mothers

朝が来る

Poupelle of Chimney Town

映画えんとつ町のプペル

Not Quite Dead Yet

一度死んでみた

Masked Ward

仮面病棟

The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window さんかく窓の外側は夜 Sumodo ~ The Successors of Samurai ~ Under the Open Sky

相撲道〜サムライを継ぐ者たち〜すばらしき世界

Genre DRAMA

ANIME

ACTION

MYSTERY

YOUTH

DRAMA

COMEDY

DRAMA DRAMA

MYSTERY

ANIME

MYSTERY COMEDY

DOCO

DRAMA

Schedule

Brisbane 11–21 November Palace Barracks Date

Time

English Title

Japanese Title

Genre DRAMA

11 Nov • Thu 19:00 18:00

Hokusai

12 Nov • Fri 12 Nov • Fri

20:15

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill

ザ・ファブル殺さない殺し屋

The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window さんかく窓の外側は夜

13 Nov • Sat 13:00

It's a Summer Film!

サマーフィルムにのって

13 Nov • Sat 17:45

Mio's Cookbook

みをつくし料理帖

13 Nov • Sat 15:15

13 Nov • Sat 20:30

True Mothers

14 Nov • Sun 15:30

Hold Me Back

14 Nov • Sun 13:00

鹿の王

The Deer King

朝が来る

映画えんとつ町のプペル

Poupelle of Chimney Town

私をくいとめて

14 Nov • Sun 16:00

Sumodo ~ The Successors of Samurai ~

相撲道〜サムライを継ぐ者たち〜

15 Nov • Mon 19:00

AI Amok

AI崩壊

14 Nov • Sun 18:15

すばらしき世界

Under the Open Sky

MYSTERY ACTION

YOUTH ANIME

DRAMA

DRAMA ANIME

ROMANCE

DOCO

DRAMA MYSTERY

16 Nov • Tues 19:00

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

ドロステのはてで僕ら

INDIE

17 Nov • Wed 20:00

Wheel of Fortune & Fantasy

偶然と想像

DRAMA

18 Nov • Thu 20:40

Under the Open Sky

すばらしき世界

DRAMA

20 Nov • Sat 13:00

Poupelle of Chimney Town

17 Nov • Wed 18:00 18 Nov • Thu 18:00 19 Nov • Fri

19:00

一度死んでみた

Not Quite Dead Yet

みをつくし料理帖

Mio's Cookbook

窮鼠はチーズの夢を見る

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese

映画えんとつ町のプペル

20 Nov • Sat 15:30

Masked Ward

仮面病棟

20 Nov • Sat 20:30

Tokyo Revengers

東京リベンジャーズ

20 Nov • Sat 18:00

Liar x Liar

ライアー×ライアー

COMEDY DRAMA ROMANCE ANIME

MYSTERY COMEDY ACTION

21 Nov • Sun 13:00

Step

ステップ

DRAMA

21 Nov • Sun 19:00

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist

夢みる人今敏

DOCO

21 Nov • Sun 15:30

Hokusai

DRAMA

Palace James Street | Shūji Terayama Series Date

Time

English Title

Japanese Title

Genre

12 Nov • Fri

18:00

Grass Labyrinth

草迷宮

SPECIAL

13 Nov • Sat 18:00

14 Nov • Sun 18:00

OPENING

Pastoral Hide-and-Seek The Fruits of Passion

Special Guest

Includes Lucky Door Prize

田園に死す上海異人娼館

SPECIAL SPECIAL

All films are in Japanese with English subtitles.

Schedules may be subject to change. For the most updated schedule, visit japanesefilmfestival.net

Schedule

Melbourne 18 November – 05 December The Kino Date

Time

18 Nov • Thu 19:20 19 Nov • Fri 19 Nov • Fri

19 Nov • Fri

18:00 20:30

20:45

20 Nov • Sat 12:00

20 Nov • Sat 13:00 20 Nov • Sat 15:00

20 Nov • Sat 16:00 20 Nov • Sat 18:25

20 Nov • Sat 20:40

21 Nov • Sun 12:00 21 Nov • Sun 12:00

21 Nov • Sun 14:15

21 Nov • Sun 17:00

21 Nov • Sun 19:30

22 Nov • Mon 18:00

22 Nov • Mon 20:15

23 Nov • Tues 18:00 23 Nov • Tues 20:30

24 Nov • Wed 18:00

24 Nov • Wed 18:00 24 Nov • Wed 20:30

みをつくし料理帖

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill

ザ・ファブル殺さない殺し屋

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese

窮鼠はチーズの夢を見る

Liar x Liar

ライアー×ライアー

Hold Me Back

私をくいとめて

Sumodo ~ The Successors of Samurai ~

相撲道〜サムライを継ぐ者たち〜

AI Amok

AI崩壊

Step

It's a Summer Film!

ステップサマーフィルムにのって

Last of the Wolves

孤狼の血 Level2

Poupelle of Chimney Town

映画えんとつ町のプペル

Hokusai

Wheel of Fortune & Fantasy

偶然と想像

True Mothers

朝が来る

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

ドロステのはてで僕ら

The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window さんかく窓の外側は夜 The Deer King

鹿の王

Sumodo ~ The Successors of Samurai ~

相撲道〜サムライを継ぐ者たち〜

Under the Open Sky

すばらしき世界

Step

ステップ

Hold Me Back

私をくいとめて

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist

夢みる人今敏一度死んでみた

Junk Head

18:00

Not Quite Dead Yet

20:00

Liar x Liar

ライアー×ライアー

Under the Open Sky

すばらしき世界

Poupelle of Chimney Town

映画えんとつ町のプペル

Tokyo Revengers

東京リベンジャーズ

20:15

27 Nov • Sat 12:00

27 Nov • Sat 14:30

27 Nov • Sat 17:00

27 Nov • Sat 19:30 27 Nov • Sat 20:00

28 Nov • Sun 12:00

28 Nov • Sun 14:15 28 Nov • Sun 17:00

28 Nov • Sun 19:30

Hokusai

Junk Head

25 Nov • Thu 20:00 26 Nov • Fri

Hokusai Mio's Cookbook

仮面病棟

25 Nov • Thu 18:00

26 Nov • Fri

Japanese Title

Masked Ward

25 Nov • Thu 18:00

26 Nov • Fri

English Title

Tokyo Revengers

東京リベンジャーズ

Masked Ward

仮面病棟

True Mothers

朝が来る

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese

窮鼠はチーズの夢を見る

Mio's Cookbook

みをつくし料理帖

It's a Summer Film!

サマーフィルムにのって

The Deer King

鹿の王

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill

ザ・ファブル殺さない殺し屋

The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window さんかく窓の外側は夜

Genre DRAMA

DRAMA

ROMANCE ACTION

COMEDY DRAMA

ROMANCE

YOUTH DOCO

ACTION

MYSTERY ANIME

DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA MYSTERY INDIE

ANIME DOCO

DRAMA

ROMANCE MYSTERY DOCO INDIE

COMEDY COMEDY ACTION DRAMA

MYSTERY ANIME

DRAMA

ACTION ROMANCE YOUTH

DRAMA ANIME

MYSTERY ACTION

ACMI | Shūji Terayama Series Date

Time

English Title

03 Dec • Fri

19:00

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets 書を捨てよ町へ出よう

17:30

Grass Labyrinth

草迷宮

SPECIAL

04 Dec • Sat

SPECIAL

Farewell to the Ark

さらば箱舟

04 Dec • Sat

19:00

05 Dec • Sun 16:00

05 Dec • Sun 19:00

Japanese Title

田園に死す

Pastoral Hide-and-Seek

上海異人娼館

The Fruits of Passion

Genre

SPECIAL

SPECIAL SPECIAL

Handpicked cinema from around the world

Our Little Sister (2015)

OPENING

Special Guest

Your museum of screen culture Includes Lucky Door Prize

All films are in Japanese with English subtitles.

Schedules may be subject to change. For the most updated schedule, visit japanesefilmfestival.net

Schedule

Sydney 25 November – 05 December Palace Norton Street Date

Time

25 Nov • Thu 19:20 26 Nov • Fri

18:00

26 Nov • Fri

20:30

27 Nov • Sat 12:30

27 Nov • Sat 15:00 27 Nov • Sat 18:00

27 Nov • Sat 20:30

28 Nov • Sun 13:00 28 Nov • Sun 15:30

28 Nov • Sun 18:00

02 Dec • Thu 18:00

Hokusai

Mio's Cookbook

みをつくし料理帖

It's a Summer Film!

サマーフィルムにのって

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese

窮鼠はチーズの夢を見る

Hold Me Back

私をくいとめて

Step

ステップ

Wheel of Fortune & Fantasy

偶然と想像

Last of the Wolves

孤狼の血 Level2

Sumodo ~ The Successors of Samurai ~

相撲道〜サムライを継ぐ者たち〜

Under the Open Sky

すばらしき世界

True Mothers

朝が来る

一度死んでみた

20:15

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill

ザ・ファブル殺さない殺し屋

18:00

The Deer King

鹿の王

Poupelle of Chimney Town

映画えんとつ町のプペル

18:00

04 Dec • Sat

15:30

04 Dec • Sat

20:30

04 Dec • Sat

Hokusai

Japanese Title

Not Quite Dead Yet

02 Dec • Thu 20:40

03 Dec • Fri

English Title

05 Dec • Sun 12:30 05 Dec • Sun 15:00

05 Dec • Sun 18:15

The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window さんかく窓の外側は夜 Masked Ward

Tokyo Revengers

Hokusai

Liar x Liar

仮面病棟東京リベンジャーズ

Hokusai ライアー×ライアー

Genre DRAMA

DRAMA

ROMANCE YOUTH

ROMANCE DRAMA

ACTION

DRAMA DOCO

DRAMA

COMEDY

MYSTERY

ACTION

MYSTERY

ANIME

ACTION

ANIME

DRAMA

COMEDY

The Chauvel | Shūji Terayama Series Date

Time

English Title

26 Nov • Fri

18:00

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets 書を捨てよ町へ出よう

27 Nov • Sat 14:00 27 Nov • Sat 17:00 28 Nov • Sun 18:00

Grass Labyrinth

Pastoral Hide-and-Seek

The Fruits of Passion

Japanese Title 草迷宮

田園に死す

上海異人娼館

Genre SPECIAL SPECIAL

SPECIAL

Palace Verona Date

Time

26 Nov • Fri

18:00

26 Nov • Fri

20:30

27 Nov • Sat 16:00

27 Nov • Sat 18:30

28 Nov • Sun 16:00 28 Nov • Sun 18:30

01 Dec • Wed 18:00

01 Dec • Wed 20:45 02 Dec • Thu 18:00

02 Dec • Thu 20:30

English Title Sumodo ~ The Successors of Samurai ~

Under the Open Sky

Japanese Title 相撲道〜サムライを継ぐ者たち〜

すばらしき世界

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist

夢みる人今敏

The Deer King

鹿の王

Mio's Cookbook

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese AI Amok

みをつくし料理帖

窮鼠はチーズの夢を見る AI崩壊

Genre DOCO

DRAMA DOCO

DRAMA

ANIME

ROMANCE MYSTERY

The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window さんかく窓の外側は夜 Liar x Liar

ライアー×ライアー

MYSTERY COMEDY

私をくいとめて

ステップ

Step

DRAMA

03 Dec • Fri

18:00

04 Dec • Sat

Hold Me Back

19:00

True Mothers

朝が来る

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill

ザ・ファブル殺さない殺し屋

English Title

Japanese Title

Genre

01 Dec • Wed 19:00

Masked Ward

仮面病棟

MYSTERY

03 Dec • Fri

19:00

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

ドロステのはてで僕ら

14:00

Poupelle of Chimney Town

映画えんとつ町のプペル

It's a Summer Film!

サマーフィルムにのって

05 Dec • Sun 18:00

ROMANCE DRAMA

ACTION

Palace Central Date

Time

02 Dec • Thu 19:00 04 Dec • Sat

04 Dec • Sat

19:00

05 Dec • Sun 16:00

OPENING

Tokyo Revengers

Junk Head

Special Guest

Includes Lucky Door Prize

東京リベンジャーズ

Junk Head

ACTION

INDIE

ANIME INDIE

YOUTH

All films are in Japanese with English subtitles.

Schedules may be subject to change. For the most updated schedule, visit japanesefilmfestival.net

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