Japan Film Festival Hamburg
The Japan-Filmfest Hamburg ( JFFH ) is a film festival that has been held annually in various Hamburg cinemas since 1998 at the end of May. The program of JFFH ranges from cinema films in the Noh series about genre strip in the Naginata series and anime and comedies of rakugo series. The film festival takes place in parallel in several art house cinemas in the Hanseatic city. The exact venues vary somewhat from year to year. Most recently, the three Hamburg cinemas Metropolis Kino , Studio Kino and 3001 Kino were the main venues . In 2015 these three cinemas will again host the JFFH. Since 2002 the Nihon Media e. V. the organizational framework of the JFFH.
Main topics
Every year the JFFH program has a different motto. 2014, the main focus was on "25 years of twinning Osaka - Hamburg ". Due to the increased interest in Japanese cartoons (the best-attended film of the 2014 festival was The Poppy Hill ), the focus in 2015 is “Highlights of Japanese Anime Cinema”. In 2015, anime productions by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli were shown, as well as real comic films. In 2016 the focus was "Japan's Underworld - In the Shadow of the Yakuza ".
Opening films
- 2009: Café Isobe by Keisuke Yoshida
- 2010: Tajomaru by Hiroyuki Nakano
- 2011: Surely Someday (シ ュ ア リ ー ・ サ ム デ イ, Shuari samudei) by Shun Oguri
- 2012: Black Dawn (外事 警察, Gaiji Keisatsu) by Kentaro Horikirizono
- 2013: The Floating Castle by Isshin Inudō
- 2014: Ken & Mary: The Asian Truck Express by Kenta Fukasaku
- 2015: Lupine III ( ル パ ン 三世 ) by Ryūhei Kitamura
- 2016: Mozu - The Movie ( 劇場版 , Gekijoban mozu) by Eiichiro Hasum
Partnerships
- Hamburg University of Fine Arts (2014)
- Osaka Arts University
- Osaka Planet Studyo
- Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku
- Kyoto film festival
- Consulate of Japan in Hamburg
reception
The Hamburger Morgenpost described the festival as a "crash course in contemporary Japanese cinema that is unparalleled in terms of diversity and intensity" . According to the NDR ( Norddeutscher Rundfunk ) Hamburg-Journal, the festival brings “foreign worlds” to Hamburg.
Web links
- Reviews and reviews
- Zeit online : Asian Cinema: Japan Film Festival , May 30, 2014
- Hamburger Abendblatt : 80 films in five days from the film city of Osaka , May 27, 2014
- Die Welt : Magic of the Stranger - The 15th Japan Film Festival Hamburg presents 100 current productions , May 28, 2014
- ScifiFilme.net: at the 15th Japan Film Festival Hamburg - All reviews and a podcast , May 21, 2014
- hamburg.de: Japan Film Festival Hamburg 2014
- asienspiegel.ch: German premiere: Negative Nothing , May 27, 2013
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article116398526/Japanisches-Filmfest-in-drei-Hamburger-Kinos.html
- ↑ http://blog.jffh.de/2014/06/grosses-finale-des-jffh-2014-volle-kinos-und-sehr-gut-besuchte-ausstellung/
- ↑ http://www.mopo.de/kino/japan-filmfest-ein-crashkurs-im-japanischen-gegenwartskino,28047696,27311110.html
- ↑ http://blog.jffh.de/2014/05/kultur-tipp-im-ndr-hamburg-journal-jffh-highlights/