Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2024
March is the month for anime. Along with Anime Japan, the Tokyo Anime Award Festival is another great event to celebrate international and local animated films. Some films, such as those in the …
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Shinagawa International Film Festival 2023
An International Film Festival focusing on shorts, this annual event is free and offers a festival atmosphere with food trucks, live performances and illuminations
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Hibiya Cinema Festival
As with the Shinjuku outdoor cinema, autumn weather is perfect for nighttime movie watching under an open sky. Hibiya Cinema Festival will run for just over a week and will offer free viewings of …
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Shinjuku Park Cinema Festival 2023
Autumn brings the perfect weather for snuggling up and watching a movie — especially, when that movie is being shown for free on a big screen outside. For the first time in three years, …
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Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia
A festival celebrating all things film, SSFF & Asia will be screening around 200 short films from around the world as they compete in a series of competitions. Choosing to screen films with a …
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Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival 2023
This June, Tokyo Lift-Off returns — online — to celebrate the best that the independent film community in Japan and the rest of the world has to offer. The Lift-Off Global Network is …
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Animage and Studio Ghibli Exhibition
This is a past eventLook back on the origins of Studio Ghibli and Animage with this exhibition in Ginza. This is a great option if you can’t make it to the Ghibli Theme Park or Museum as it is right in the …
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Films for the Forest
This is a past eventTake this chance to watch 10 dynamic short films highlighting the power of forests and why we should fight to save them. This screening is the first of its kind to be held in Japan and will be a …
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“Deep Logic” Film Screening w/ English Subtitles
This is a past eventThe Japanese indie action film “Deep Logic” boasts a cast of 140 actors from the vibrant Tokyo theater scene in an entertaining action extravaganza that gives Hollywood a run for its money. Enjoy …
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Memories of Tsukiji – Tokyo Premiere
This is a past eventWhat Happens to the Memories of a Place After It Has Disappeared? The three artists behind Future Cities Tokyo have come together once again for their final 2019 show to create a mesmerizing and …
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Queer Tokyo Fair Vol. 1
This is a past eventTokyo’s first queer culture festival showcasing independent publications and art from Asia and around the world with a focus on sexuality, gender, and feminism. In addition to the zines and …
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Dreaming Korea Animation
This is a past eventDreaming Korea Animation presents an afternoon of Korean and Japanese animated films with guest talkers in attendance. Director Ahn Jae-hoon presents the Japan premiere of the animated adaptation …
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In the Name of Peace; John Hume in America
This is a past eventTo commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the historic Good Friday Agreement in Belfast on 10 April 1998, The Embassy of Ireland in Japan is presenting a film about the Irish leader, …
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“Love You To Death” Film Screening
This is a past eventTELL (Tokyo English Lifeline) is proud to be showing a screening of the BBC documentary Love You to Death: A Year of Domestic Violence by acclaimed director Vanessa Engle. The documentary tells …
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“Big in Japan” Documentary Screening
This is a past eventBig in Japan is a laugh-out-loud investigation into the complex, ever-changing nature of fame in modern culture and the wacky phenomenon of foreign celebrity in Japan. This exclusive Q&A …
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International Women’s Day – Free Screening of “I Am a Girl” Documentary
This is a past eventTokyo Enlish Lifelike (TELL) presents a screening of the acclaimed documentary I Am a Girl, a movie that engages the viewer in the lives of six girls coming of age around the world, ready to …
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Doglegs Screening
This is a past eventA production of former Tokyo-based New Zealand film maker Heath Cozens, Doglegs is a documentary about a renegade Tokyo pro-wrestling league in which the disabled battle the able-bodied in the …
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“Bikes vs Cars” Film Premiere
This is a past eventSee the Japan premiere of Bikes vs Cars, a documentary on how bikes can be a powerful tool for change in world where “climate change and never-ending gridlocks frustrate people more than …
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Japan Wildlife Film Festival
This is a past eventThis biennial festival will screen 48 wildlife films from around the world over 4 days. The event is touted as Asia’s largest wildlife film festival and this will be the first time in 24 …
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R E S O N A N C E
This is a past eventAn audio-visual event showing “site-specific” videos introduced by Paul Kikuchi and an ensemble of Tokyo musicians playing traditional and non-traditional instruments. There will be …
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Cinema Travel – Short Shorts Film Festival at Haneda Airport
This is a past eventEvery weekend and holiday this month, Short Shorts is running a free short film festival program at Haneda Airport. Films are both domestic and international, and are subtitled in both Japanese …
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Midtown Meets Godzilla
This is a past eventTokyo Midtown has installed a gigantic Godzilla in Midtown Park. The beast is a 1:7 scale model of Hollywood’s latest incarnation of the rampaging monster. It is to be situated in the park …
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