Japanese Film Festival 2024
The Japanese Film Festival (JFF) 2024 will take place in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen, and Songkhla. The festival is a collaboration between the Japan Foundation, Bangkok, and other organizations. The festival will feature 19 films with Thai and English subtitles.
The festival will also be held in Manila, Baguio, Iloilo, Cebu, and Davao from February to March 2024. The opening film for the festival is The First Slam Dunk (2022), a basketball film based on the manga and anime series.
The Japan Foundation, Bangkok, in collaboration with House Samyan, Dude, Movie and Faculty of Fine and Applied Art, Khon Kaen University, proudly present the "Japanese Film Festival 2024 (JFF 2024)" in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen and Songkhla. Supported by the Embassy of Japan in Thailand, the Japanese Association in Thailand, and Untitled for film, the JFF 2024 gains the vibrant momentum this year with 19 acclaimed films, encompassing diverse ranges of genres, including heartfelt drama, action, comedy, romance, musical performance and an extravaganza of animations.
Screening Schedule: All films have both English and Thai subtitles. Except 5 Centimeters per Second and The Place Promised in Our Early Days only has Thai subtitles.
The recommended film this year is "The Lines That Define Me," a drama that projects sumi-e, Japanese ink painting, as more than a physical form of art but a thread of life expressed by the artists' spirits and determination. Also, other outstanding films that should not be missed in our lineup include: "Ryuichi Sakamoto|OPUS," the last stunning performance,featuring just Ryuichi Sakamoto and his piano playing. Despite its down-to-earth feature, River is another captivating time-loop film of Yamaguchi Junta apart from Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, his previous famed work. Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom, directed by Kotono Watanabe, is the anime adaptation film based on a famous Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nao Iwamoto.
Aside from the films suggested above, the festival offer more quality films such as A Man, winners of Best Film and Best Picture Awards from the Japanese Academy in 2023 and Evil Does Not Exist, winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Heart-shaking work from Ryusuke Hamaguchi, director of DRIVE MY CAR. A Mother's Touch, based on the biography of Professor Fukushima Satoshi, the first blind and deaf professor in the world will gently warm your heart with mother's unconditional love and human's will of power.
As usual, those who help answered the questionnaire after watching our film, will receive this year festival stickers!
Moreover, on 3rd February from 19:30-20:30, a special talks event after the screening under the theme "Literatures, Films and Identities: Through "A Man" by Kei Ishikawa, 8 awards winning of 46th Japan Academy Film Prizes." will be held at the cinema entrance of House Samyan. Dr. Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn, Faculty of Mass Communications, Chulalongkorn University, and Dr. Matana Jaturasangpairoj, Japanese Section, Department of Eastern Languages, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University is the speakers and moderated by Mr. Kanchat Rangseekansong.
