Guest appearances for 2025!

We’re delighted to announce that we’ll once again be joined by two directors of JFTFP25 titles at select screenings, where they’ll be giving exclusive Q&A sessions!

SEKINE Kosai, director of Stay Mum, will be appearing at:

• Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (7 Feb)
• Frankopan Hall, Jesus College; Cambridge (8 Feb)
• QUAD, Derby (9 Feb)
• Phoenix, Leicester (10 Feb)

TODA Akihiro, director of Ichiko, will be appearing at:

• Depot, Lewes (13 Feb)
• The Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford (14 Feb)
• Chapter, Cardiff (15 Feb)
• Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (16 Feb)
• Showroom Cinema, Sheffield (17 Feb)

We’re excited to welcome them, and we hope you’re looking forward to meeting them!

For more information, check out our film or venue pages.

About SEKINE Kosai

Film director/cinematographer. He directed his first short film RIGHT PLACE in 2005, which won the Best Foreign Film at the New York Short Film Festival and the Grand Prix at the Young Director’s Award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity the following year. In 2018, he made his feature film directorial debut with Love At Least which won the Jury Prize at the KINOTAYO Film Festival and the Silver Award at the SHINDO Kaneto Awards. In the same year, he released his feature documentary Tower of the Sun. He announced his collaboration with UNHCR about the immigrants and released his new documentary Dust to Dust which focus on clothes and dust issue in 2024.

About TODA Akihiro

Born in Nara Prefecture in 1983. Founder of theatre unit cheese theater.

TODA Akihiro graduated with a degree in theatre arts from Kindai University. He learned filmmaking on his own and won several prizes for his short films. In 2014, he made his feature debut with TANGERINES ON CAT. TODA also works as a writer and stage director. Stage play Ichiko no Tameni which Ichiko is based on, won Best Screenplay at Sun Mall Studio Awards in 2015.

Posted on: 6 January 2025

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The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme Online Talk 

Online roundtable discussion – “Action!”: Dealing with Social Issues in Cinematic Narratives

Join us for a fascinating online roundtable with film experts KIMBARA Yuka, ISHIZAKA Kenji, Julian Ross, James Mudge, Jennifer Coates, and Espen Bale, who together will explore how filmmakers past and present have addressed social issues through their cinematic practice, in view of this year’s theme of Am I Right? Justice, Justification and Judgement in Japanese Cinema.

Date: Wednesday 26 March, 13:00 GMT
Online roundtable discussion hosted on Zoom

Click here to book your space

Posted on: 7 March 2025

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Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025 report now available

Another massive thank-you to everyone who attended or otherwise supported this year’s JFTFP!

We’ve now made a report on the programme available, containing details on attendance, audience members’ highest-rated films, and more – check it out at the following link!

Download the report (PDF)

Posted on: 8 May 2025

Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024 interim report now available

Thank you again to everyone who supported the JFTFP this year!

We’ve now made our interim report on the programme available at the following link.

Download the interim report (PDF)

Feel free to give it a read!

Posted on: 2 April 2024

Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024 photo album

Thank you to all of you who attended and supported the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024!

We’ve prepared a special collection of photos from the event below, for you to look back on and remember this year’s unforgettable programme.

Click here to view the photo album.

Posted on: 2 April 2024

JFTFP fans' most memorable films revealed

As part of our roundtable discussion held on 22 March to complement the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024, we asked participants to tell us which Japanese films were most memorable to them, and compiled a list of their responses.

We’ve now published this list of films at the link below for you to look through!

Is your most memorable Japanese film on the list? Do you agree with everyone else’s choices? Take a look and find out!

Click the links below to download the list, in PDF format:

List of memorable films (by popularity)
List of memorable films (by director)

Thank you to everyone who submitted their most memorable Japanese films!

Posted on: 22 March 2024