This year, due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, the Japanese Film Festival in many countries, including Vietnam, will be held online and divided into two different sessions through the Online Cinema channel of the Japan Foundation.
Vietnamese audiences will be able to watch for free outstanding Japanese films of various genres such as documentaries, comedies, animations and dramas on the website ofJapan Online Film Festival - JFF.
Specifically, the first screening period will start from November 15 to November 21, screening 5 films that were introduced at JFF Online 2020 and Japan Hour 2020, then the second screening period will take place from February 14 to February 27, 2022 and bring 20 films to the audience.
The 13th Japan Film Festival in Vietnam is the biggest Japanese cinema event of the year, organized by the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam - Japan Foundation.
In particular, the number of films this year has more than doubled compared to last year, with many more diverse, attractive and unique films selected to send to Vietnamese audiences.
The films shown in the first batch include five highly rated and internationally award-winning films: Little Nights, Little Love, Dance with me, Gon, The Little Fox, Tora-san in Goto, and The Great Passage.
"Little Nights, Little Love" is highly appreciated by experts for its meaning about love, loneliness and the aspirations of adults.
The musical film "Dance with Me" won the Kobayashi Audience Award, the Special Film Director Award at the 2019 Japanese Film Festival in Toronto and the 2019 Shanghai International Film Festival.
"The Great Passage" is an emotional film about a talented lexicographer's journey to compile a great dictionary called The Great Passage. The film won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2014 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
"Tora-san in Goto" is a documentary filmed in 1993, spanning 22 years, about the life of a family with a tradition of producing Udon noodles on Goto Island, and won the Mulan Award for Documentary (Grand Prix) at the 2016 Shanghai TV Festival.
The animated short film "Gon, The Little Fox" tells the sad story between little fox Gon and hunter Hyoju, and won awards at the 2020 International Animation Film Festival in Belgium and the 2020 International Children's Film Festival in New York, both selected by the Official Selection Committee.
Not only diverse in genre, the films on the LHP portal are also flexible in terms of screening time and unlimited audience number, true to the criteria of "Watching Japanese films anytime, anywhere" that the program aims for.
With just one "free viewing" login and adding movies to the viewing list and pressing the "Play" button, viewers will be able to enjoy their favorite movies on all devices, each movie can be viewed over and over again within 48 hours from when the audience presses the "Watch" button.
