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All films and tv series will have subtitles ready in 16 languages: Arabic, Burmese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Indonesian, Italian, Lao, Malay, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese.
When you visit the official website. Please select your country or region. Choose between Japanese Films and Japanese TV Dramas categories.
Important dates to remember:
The Japanese Films will be available for streaming from June 5 noon to June 19 noon (GMT+9 Japan standard time). The Japanese TV Dramas will be available for streaming from June 19 noon to July 3 noon (GMT+9 Japan standard time).
Browse freely and pick a title, the site will ask us to register our email to log in and watch for free. Select your preferred language. Enjoy!
The 23 featured films this JFF Online 2024:
We Made A Beautiful Bouquet (2021)
Director : Nobuhiro Doi | Writer : Yuji Sakamoto
Cast : Masaki Suda, Kasumi Arimura, Kaya Kiyohara
Missing the last train ride left stranded passengers in the platform but for Mugi and Kinu both twenty year olds this might be a beginning of something?
Director : Norihiro Koizumi | Writers : Sho Kataoka, Norihiko Koizumi and Hiromasa Togami
Cast : Yosuke Eguchi, Kanata Hosoda, Sora Inoue, Yokohama Ryusei, Kiyohara Kaya
The film is adapted from the novel "Sen wa, Boku wo Egaku" by Togami Hiromasa. Sousuke Aoyama a university student and who suffers from the loss of his parents. During his part-time job in an exhibition gallery, he was found looking at Suiboku-ga (Japanese ink wash painting) work on display and invited him to be his pupil by Kozan Shinoda, a Suiboku-ga professional artist. Will the Art of Suiboku-ga heals him?
Director : Kazuya Konaka | Writer : Kazuya Konaka
Cast : Yu Uemura, Akari Takaishi, Takuji Kawakubo
This brings us back to the Star Wars craze in the 1970s, as we follow a cinephile high schooler who teams up with three classmates to produce a sci-fi film with a limited budget and record it with an 8mm camera for a school project. This film won recognition at the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival 2022, the Official Selection at the Boston SCI-FI Film Festival, and the Excellence in Sci-Fi Horror Film Festival 2023.
Anime Supremacy! (2022)
Director : Kohei Yoshino | Writer : Yosuke Masaike | Story : Mizuki Tsujimura
Cast : Riho Yoshioka, Tomoya Nakamura, Tasuku Emoko, Machiko Ono
The story of a passionate newcomer to the Japanese animation industry who wants to create the most unforgettable anime ever made. This is the live-action adaptation of the light novel Haken Anime! by Mizuki Tsujimura.
TOEI Tokyo Film Studio produced the animation for the film. From the poster, on the left side is "Soundback: Kanade no Ishi" directed by Azuma Tani with characters drawn by Eisaku Kubonouchi ("Carole & Tuesday" anime). The right side is "Fatal Front Ridelight" directed by Takashi Otsuka, and the characters were drawn by Takahiro Kishida ("Durarara!" anime). Two anime in one film—double treat.
Director : Eiichi Yamamoto | Writer : Tsuji Masaki | Story : Osamu Tezuka
Cast : Ota Yoshiko, Katsuta Hisahi
The only full length Japanese animation in this year's line up. The story of a white lion growing up to become the king of the African jungle.
Director and Writer : Yugo Sakamoto
Cast : Akari Takaishi, Saori Izawa
Don't be fooled by these two high schoolers. They are highly skilled assassins for hire. After their graduation, their company gave them a task to start by living together as roommates and finding part-time jobs in order to be responsible citizens and pay taxes. Can they pull it off?
Director : Izuru Narushima | Writer : Riko Sakaguchi | Story : Yoshinobu Kadoi
Cast : Koji Yakusho, Masaki Suda, Nana Mori
Kenji Miyazawa is the first son of Masajiro Miyazawa, who has owned a large pawnshop for generations. He is expected to inherit the family business to carry on the tradition, but Kenji is determined to pursue his studies in agriculture, synthetic gemstones, and other bizarre pursuits.
Director : Tsutomu Hanabusa | Writer : Osamu Suzuki
Cast : Shosuke Tanihara, Muga Tsukaji, Keiko Kitagawa
When the kind-hearted and unattractive young cook get the "Handsome Suit" that can make him a charming man and try to change his own life.
When the kind-hearted and unattractive young cook get the "Handsome Suit" that can make him a charming man and try to change his own life.
Director : Shinya Ayabe | Writer : Shinya Ayabe, Yuji Nagamori
Cast : Hayato Ichihara, Kaho Tsuchimura, Taishi Sato
A middle school teacher emphasizes the value of health by having good meals, as does his third-year student, who believes his day is not complete without delicious school meals. They both share their love for school lunches and are competing on how to make their school meals better.
Director : Shunsuke Kariyama | Writer : Yoshikazu Okada | Story : Kaori Tsurutani
Cast : Mana Ashida, Nobuko Miyamoto
A young girl who works as a bookseller and an elderly lady sparked a great friendship through their love of BL 'Boy's Love' manga, Japanese comics. They made a promise to participate a comic event.
Director : Yuki Tanada | Writers : Yuki Tanada, Kosuke Mukai | Story : Waka Hirako
Cast : Mei Nagano, Masataka Kubota
A woman goes on a journey carrying her dead best friend, Mariko. A film adaptation of an award-winning and popular manga that portray of women friendship.
Director and Writer : Yuji Nakae | Story : Tsutomu Mizukami
Cast : Kenji Sawada, Takako Matsu
We follow the story of a writer living alone in the mountains. His everyday life includes raising vegetables, harvesting, and cooking simple meals. His editor visits him once in a while and enjoys his cooking. Through his writing, he appreciates the gift of seasons and wonders: What is true wealth?
Director : Akiko Ohku | Writer : Bakarhythm
Cast : Ryoko Shinohara, Tomoya Nakamura, Nagisa Sekimizu, Osamu Mukai
A wedding is a ceremony that unites two people in marriage. It's the most anticipated chapter of a newlywed's life. How will our wedding planner deal with the series of unexpected events?
Director : Shinya Tamada | Writer and Story : Atsushi Asada
Cast : Toko Miura, Atsuko Maeda, Marika Ito, Takumi Kitamura
"Why can't people understand that I'm happy and fulfilled even when I'm not interested in romance?" This is the story of a 30-year-old woman who studied music and then gave up. She decided to return to her hometown and faces a wave of societal pressure from a concerned mother. Will she find peace with her family?
Director : Daihachi Yoshida | Writer : Ichiro Kusuno, Daihachi Yoshida | Story : Takeshi Shiota
Cast : Yo Oizumi, Mayu Matsuoka, Koichi Sato
Hayami Teruya an attractive and witty editor-in-chief of the magazine. He works well with his publishers and subordinates. Will his charm and wits can keep his magazine in demand to be in the magazine shelves?
Director and Writer : Kotaro Wajima
Cast : Mariko Kaga, Muga Tsukaji
The current residents of the house with the large plum tree are an aging mother and her adult son, Tadao, who has autism. They've received complaints from their neighbors regarding the tree. The mother began to worry about how she would help her adult son with autism to live independently.
Director : Naoko Nobutomo
Cast : Yoshinori Nobutomo, Fumiko Nobutomo, Naoko Nobutomo
Naoko Nobutomo is the daughter of Yoshinori Nobutomo and Fumiko Nobutomo. She has been recording the moments with her mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in her mid-eighties, as well as her father, who has been supportive of her.
Director : Tetsu Maeda | Writers : Kentaro Ushio, Kazuhiro Inaba | Story : Jiro Asada
Cast : Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hana Sugisaki, Kenichi Matsuyama
In the time of samurai, the newly young prince found out that his clan have a debt of 10 billion yen. His mission is to pay back the debt or face a 'hara-kiri' death.
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Director and Writer : Keisuke Kinoshita | Story : Sakae Tsuboi
Cast : Hideko Takamine, Yumeji Tsukioka, Chisu Ryu
In 1928, before World War II, it follows the story of a female teacher who travels by bike to teach her 12 lovely elementary students on a small island in western Japan.
The competition started in 2021 with the goal of discovering young creatives in Japanese horror, and the grand winner of the event will get the opportunity to direct a full-length film. Here are the selected titles among the hundreds of entries for this JFF online line-up.
Best Wishes To All (2023), Closet (2023), Karakasa (2023) and The Invitation (2023)
JAPANESE TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES
Available for streaming on June 19 noon–July 3 noon (GMT+9 Japan standard time)
Director : Katsuo Fukuzawa | Writer : Hiroyuki Yatsu, Kazuhiro Inaba | Story : Jun Ikeido
Cast : Hiroshi Abe, Tao Tsuchiya, Dansyun Tatekawa
The other title is Shitamachi Rocket. Tsukuda Kohei is a former Aerospace and Science Exploration Agency researcher. He is currently managing Tsukuda Industries, a tiny factory that he inherited from his father. His goal is to build a rocket engine despite a lack of funding due to a few clients and patent infringement allegations. Can his dream take off?
Director : Katsuo Fukuzawa | Screenplay : Hiroyuki Yatsu
Cast : Koji Yakusho, Kento Yamazaki, Ryoma Takeuchi
The long-standing 'tabi' socks (a traditional Japanese footwear) business is nearing maturity; the decrease in demand for tabi socks drives the business owner to pursue another project by manufacturing running shoes.
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Japanese Film Festival Official X or formerly Twitter announcement post:
JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL ONLINE 2024 lineup finally announced 🎉One more month to go for the festival, please make a note on your calender 📝For more details, please check our website! https://t.co/gJZept1J2X 👀#japanesefilmfestivalonline#jffo2024 pic.twitter.com/fxFxAlZYvc— JFF+ | Bringing Japanese Film to You (@jffplus) May 8, 2024