Japan Foundation has announced the list of the films that will be screened in the Japanese Film Festival Indonesia 2022 event. 14 films will be screened, Including the film adaptation of Mizuki Tsunimura’s novel Anime Supremacy!, Masaaki Yuasa’s animated film INU-OH, and the animated film adaptation of Kana Ozawa’s manga Blue Thermal.
Here is the full lineup of the festival:
| Title (English) | Year | Genre | Director |
| INTOLERANCE | 2021 | Drama | Kensuke Yoshida |
| Under the Open Sky | 2021 | Drama | Miwa Nishikawa |
| BLUE | 2021 | Drama | Kensuke Yoshida |
| And So The Baton is Passed | 2021 | Drama | Tetsu Maeda |
| ANIME SUPREMACY! | 2022 | Drama | Kohei Yoshino |
| BLUE THERMAL | 2022 | Animation, Drama | Masaki Tachibana |
| IN THE WAKE | 2021 | Drama | Takehisa Zeze |
| Lesson in Murder | 2022 | Thriller/Mystery | Kazuya Shiraishi |
| INU-OH | 2021 | Animation, Historical | Masaaki Yuasa |
| Liar x Liar | 2021 | Drama, Romance | Saiji Yakumo |
| Poupelle of Chimney Town | 2020 | Animation, fantasy | Yusuke Hirota |
| The Night Beyond The Tricornered Window | 2021 | Drama, Thriller/Fantasy | Yukihiro Morigaki |
| STEP | 2020 | Family | ken Iizuka |
| Not Quite Dead Yet | 2020 | Comedy | Shinji Hamasaki |
The festival will be held in three Indonesian cities: Jakarta, Bandung, and Makassar. The Jakarta event will be held from 3 to 6 November 2022 at CGV Grand Indonesia. The Makassar event will be held from 18 to 20 November 2022 at CGV Panakkukang Square, while the Bandung event from 2 to 4 December 2022 at CGV Paris Van Java. The films will be available in both Indonesian and English subtitles.
This year’s event is the first Japanese Film Festival Indonesia event held offline after three years. Since 2019, the events have only been held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The last JFF Online event to be held in Indonesia was earlier this year in February, where viewers could watch various Japanese films on the JFF website.
The Japanese Film Festival is an annual film screening event that focuses on showcasing Japanese films. As of 2019, JFF has been held in 12 countries across the world, including Australia, Russia, China, India, and many Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia. Films screened at past events in Indonesia include One Cut of the Dead, Samurai Shifters, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, and Mary and The Witch’s Flower.
The Indonesian Anime Times
