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Wexford Arts Centre to host Japanese Film Festival with eagerly anticipated screenings

'Perfect Days' is being screened at Wexford Arts Centre as part of the Japanese Film Festival.

Nicholas Colloton
© Wexford People

On Tuesday April 23 the Japanese Film Festival Ireland will be returning for its 15th edition, with a line-up of films that will bring the best of Japanese cinema to Wexford.

Ireland’s only true national film festival returns to Wexford Arts Centre with two screenings this year. Screenings will also be taking place in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Sligo, Dundalk, Waterford and Bray.

Wexford will have the opportunity to enjoy one of the highlights of this year’s anime programme with a screening of Lonely Castle in the Mirror at 4:45pm. This moving coming-of-age fantasy follows several teenagers who discover an opulent castle on the other side of portals that appear in their mirrors. When the mysterious castle proprietor appears, she promises a wish to whoever figures out the castle’s secret.

At 8:00pm, JFF is delighted to present a Wexford screening of Wim Wenders’ acclaimed Perfect Days. The film follows middle-aged Hirayama (Koji Yakusho) leading a modest existence, balancing his work as a Tokyo public toilet caretaker with his love of music, reading and photography. The film was nominated for Best International Feature Film at this year’s Academy Awards, while Koji Yakusho deservedly won the Best Actor Award at 2023’s Cannes Film Festival.

More information on both films is available at www.jff.ie and tickets are now on sale at www.wexfordartscentre.ie.