Catch Japanese films for free at the 2024 Japanese Film Festival
Catch Japanese films for free at the 2024 Japanese Film Festival
Taken from the Japanese Film Festival Official Website.
Are you feeling the film fest fever already kicking in at the start of the year? Check out a diverse lineup of Japanese films that hit close to home for many Filipinos. For starters, films like The First Slam Dunk and two Detective Conan feature films, The Time Bombed Skyscraper and The Private Eyes' Requiem, may resonate with 90’s kids who grew up watching the anime series and reading the manga in their younger days.
Meanwhile, a sense of Pinoy pride is glistening with the screening of Voltes V Legacy: The Cinematic Experience, along with the final episode of the Japanese anime series, Voltes V: The Liberation, re-edited and released by GMA Films in theaters back in 1997.
For fans of the renowned Japanese auteur Yasujirō Ozu, you can finally experience one of his greatest films, Tokyo Story, which tells the story of a post-World War II Japanese family and a portrait of children moving on with their independent lives away from their parents.
Here’s the complete line-up of films:
THE FIRST SLAM DUNK (2022) by Takehiko Inoue
GOLD KINGDOM AND WATER KINGDOM (2023) by Kotono Watanabe
WE MADE A BEAUTIFUL BOUQUET (2021) by Nobuhiro Doi
TOKYO STORY (1953) by Yasujirō Ozu
DETECTIVE CONAN THE MOVIE: THE TIME-BOMBED SKYSCRAPER (1997) by Kenji Kodama
DETECTIVE CONAN THE MOVIE: THE PRIVATE EYES’ REQUIEM (2004) by Yasuichiro Yamamoto
AND YET, YOU ARE SO SWEET (2023) by Takehiko Shinjō
NOT QUITE DEAD YET (2020) by Shinji Hamasaki
ANGRY SON (2022) by Kashou Iizuka
MONDAYS: SEE YOU “THIS” WEEK! (2022) by Ryo Takebayashi
THE FATHER OF THE MILKY WAY RAILROAD (2022) by Izuru Narushima
A MAN (2022) by Kei Ishikawa
VOLTES V: LEGACY - THE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE (2023) by Mark A. Reyes
VOLTES V: THE LIBERATION (1977-1978) by Tadao Nagahama
SCREENING SCHEDULE (Shangri-La Red Carpet Cinema)
Here’s the full film screening schedule at the Shangri-la Red Carpet Cinema | Photo taken from the Japanese Film Festival, Philippine Facebook page.
For further screening dates, catch the Japanese Film Festival 2024 at these venues:
SM Seaside City Cebu
(February 16 to 25)
SM City Baguio
(February 23 to March 3)
SM City Iloilo
(February 23 to March 3)
SM City Davao
(February 23 to March 3)
UPFI Film Center
(February 22 to March 2)
OTHER EVENTS
Taken from the Japanese Film Festival Official Website.
You can catch a talkback session with Angry Son director Kashou Iizuka and actor Kazuki Horike immediately after the 6:30 pm screening on February 3 at the Shangri-La Red Carpet Cinema 4.
Stay updated with the Japanese Film Festival’s official Facebook page for more information on screenings and events.
