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This year, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Japanese Film Festival in many countries, including Vietnam, will be held online and divided into two separate sessions through the Japan Foundation's Online Cinema channel.
Vietnamese viewers will be able to watch excellent Japanese films of various genres, including documentaries, comedies, animations, and dramas, for free on the website.Japan International Film Festival - JFF.
Specifically, the first screening period will run from November 15th to 21st, showcasing 5 films previously featured at JFF Online 2020 and Japan Hour 2020. The second screening period will then take place from February 14th to 27th, 2022, offering audiences 20 films.
The 13th Japan Film Festival in Vietnam is the biggest Japanese film 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 a wider variety of diverse, engaging, and unique films selected for Vietnamese audiences.
The films screened in the first phase include five critically acclaimed 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 regarded by critics for its themes of love, loneliness, and the aspirations of adulthood.
The musical film "Dance with Me" won the Kobayashi Audience Award, the Special Director Award at the 2019 Toronto Japan Film Festival, and the 2019 Shanghai International Film Festival.
"The Great Passage" is a romantic film about the compilation of a comprehensive dictionary titled "The Great Journey of a Talented Lexicographer." 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 from 1993, spanning 22 years, about the life of a family with a tradition of making Udon noodles on Goto Island. It won the Mulan Award for Documentary (Grand Prix) at the 2016 Shanghai Television Festival.
The short animated film "Gon, The Little Fox," which tells the poignant story between the little fox Gon and the hunter Hyoju, 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 are the films on the festival portal diverse in genre, but they also offer flexible screening times and no audience limit, perfectly aligning with the program's goal of "Watching Japanese films anytime, anywhere."
With just one login for "free viewing," adding movies to your watchlist, and pressing the "Play" button, viewers can enjoy their favorite films on all their devices, with each movie playable repeatedly for 48 hours from the moment they click to watch it.
