With over 50+ films, CAMERA JAPAN Festival is proud to announce their full and diverse programme, combining films ranging from de newest and best Japanese arthouse, animation, documentaries, short films and classic cinema.
The 17th edition of the festival will be opened at LantarenVenster on September 22nd with the international premiere of KOUMEI's Spotlight,
with the director and leading actor MORIMOTO Nobuhiro present. From 29 Sept. – 2 October, the festival moves to Amsterdam's LAB111.
With four international and twelve European premieres, the festival consists of a special and exclusive programme. Films such as Spotlight, Nagi's Island, Prior Convictions and Thanc You, will have their first screenings outside of Japan here at CAMERA JAPAN Festival. Among the many Dutch premieres titles from directors such as MIIKE Takashi (The Great Yokai War: Guardians) and ODAGIRI Joe (They Say Nothing Stays the Same) will be shown.
As usual, animation films will be present at CAMERA JAPAN Festival. Besides a handful of animated shorts, the festival is proud to present Dutch premieres of Dozens of Norths, Goodbye Don Glees, The House of the Lost on the Cape and Summer Ghost.
The festival also shows a retrospective of four newly restored films by famous actress and revolutionary director TANAKA Kinuyo. All four films consist of a progressive, female point-of-view; a unique view in post-war Japanese cinema.
Another classic, OZU Yasujiro's silent film Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth will be shown accompanied by a live performance of the Rotterdam Kinematic Ensemble.
Side programming, workshops and exhibitions
Besides offering a rich variety of Japanese films, the festival also includes several cultural and culinary workshops and art-exhibitions. Side program consist of a Miso Workshop, a Mokuhanga Workshop, Sake Tasting, Kimono dressing & photoshoot, multiple art-exhibitions and more.
Programme CAMERA JAPAN Festival 2022
FEATURE FILMS
Alivehoon (SHIMOYAMA Ten)
Angry Son (IIZUKA Kasho)
Anime Supremacy (YOSHINO Kohei)
ARC (ISHIKAWA Kei)
Awake (YAMADA Atsuhiro)
Baby Assassins (SAKAMOTO Yugo)
Bad City (SONOMURA Kensuke)
Broken Commandment (MAEDA Kazuo)
The End of the Pale Hour (MATSUMOTO Hana)
Eternally Younger than Those Idiots (YOSHINO Ryohei)
The Great Yokai War: Guardians (MIIKE Takashi)
Intolerance (YOSHIDA Keisuke)
It's All My Fault (MATSUMOTO Yusaku)
Joint (KOJIMA Oudai)
Just Remembering (MATSUI Daigo)
Let Me Hear It Barefoot (KUDO Riho)
The Midnight Maiden War (NINOMIYA Ken)
My Brother, the Android and Me (SAKAMOTO Junji)
Nagi's Island (NAGASAWA Masahiko)
Offbeat Cops (UCHIDA Eiji)
Popran (UEDA Shinichiro)
Prior Convictions (KISHI Yoshiyuki)
Ribbon (NON)
Riverside Mukolitta (OGIGAMI Naoko)
Shrieking in the Rain (UCHIDA Eiji)
Small, Slow But Steady (MIYAKE Sho)
Spotlight (KOUMEI)
Straying (IMAIZUMI Rikiya)
Tamano Visual Poetry Collection: Nagisa's Bicycle (TSUTA Tetsuichiro)
Thanc You (KURAMOTO Mitsuru)
They Say Nothing Stays the Same (ODAGIRI Joe)
Unlock Your Heart (SHUTO Rin)
Wandering (LEE Sang-il)
ANIMATION
Short Animation Selection (Various directors)
Dozens of Norths (YAMAMURA Koji)
Goodbye Don Glees (ISHIZUKA Atsuko)
The House of the Lost on the Cape (KAWATSURA Shinya)
Summer Ghost (Ioundraw)
DOCUMENTARIES
Japan Big Lagoon Village (Stephanie GAUS)
Salaryman (Allegra PACHECO)
Target (NISHIJIMA Shinji)
Tokyo Kurds (HYUGA Fumiari)
Yonaguni (Anush HAMZEHIAN & Vittorio MORTAROTTI)
SHORT FILMS
Anxious Body (MIZUSHIRI Yoriko)
Cycle Race (KUROSAWA Hiroki)
I'm Late (KABUKI Sawako)
Routine (MIYAHARA Takuya)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth + Live Music by the Rotterdam
Kinematic Ensemble (OZU Yasujiro)
RETROSPECTIVE: TANAKA Kinuyo
Forever a Woman
The Moon Has Risen
The Wandering Princess
Love Under the Crucifix
PERFORMANCE
Kaiju Project
EXHIBITIONS
From ukiyo-e to hanga: Japanese woodblock prints
Memories of Tokyo
WORKSHOPS
Mokuhanga Workshop
Miso Workshop
Sake Tasting
Kimono dressing and photo shoot
CLOSING PARTY
CAMERA JAPAN x CrossComix Afterparty
FILMBRUNCH
KIDS DAY
