SCREENINGS (Open to public with purchases)
TICKETING
Tickets for JFF 2023 will be sold at RM 10.00 except for “#Manhole” which will be sold at prevailing ticket price.
Tickets for the screenings can be purchased ONE (1) week before the first screening at each region via GSC Ticketing Kiosk, GSC e-payment at gsc.com.my or GSC Mobile Apps.
The Detective Conan Marathon (KV & Penang only) and “Your Lovely Smile” (KV only) will be free admission and can be booked on Eventbrite starting on the 31 August (KV) and 10 September (Penang).
1. A MAN (ある男)
Year : 2022
Runtime (Minutes): 121
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: 13
Genre:Drama,Mystery
Director:ISHIKAWA Kei 石川慶
Movie Synopsis:
Over four blissful years, Rie and her son shared a loving new life with her second husband, Daisuke. His sudden accidental death brings not only grief, but an unnerving discovery for the widow: the man she thought she knew was posing under someone else’s identity. In a startling dual narrative, the mystery around Mr. X unfolds beneath the hands of KIDO, the attorney handling the case. Prefaced by René Magritte’s surrealist painting. Not to be Reproduced, this thought-provoking film is a vital addition to a growing genre of Japanese cinema that interrogates fragile morals permeating contemporary society.
2. AND YET, YOU ARE SO SWEET (なのに、千輝くんが甘すぎる)
Year : 2023
Runtime (Minutes): 99
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: 13
Genre:Drama,Romance
Director: SHINJYO Takehiko 新城毅彦
Movie Synopsis:
KISARAGI Maaya is in her second year of high school, and has just been completely rejected by her crush. Heartbroken and mortified, she vows out loud to "never confess to someone ever again"… only to realise later that her high school's heartthrob CHIGIRA Sui is within earshot! Upon hearing Maaya's weeping, CHIGIRA proposes a strange solution to heal her heartbreak - that she pretends to have a crush on him instead. When CHIGIRA starts treating Maaya sweetly, it isn't hard for her to keep up pretences in this strictly one-sided love game... but as the pair grow closer, Maaya's feelings for CHIGIRA become undeniable. What will become of their "pretend crush" now?
3. LUPIN THE 3rd, THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO
(ルパン三世 カリオストロの城)
Year : 1979
Runtime (Minutes): 100
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: 13
Genre: Animation,Adventure
Director: MIYAZAKI Hayao 宮崎駿
Movie Synopsis:
In the quaint European Duchy of Cagliostro, Lupin and Jigen end up with a damsel in distress on their hands. It’s a daring rescue operation to find the castle’s treasure and save the captured princess! Directed by MIYAZAKI Hayao, this action-adventure romp is said to have inspired some renowned film directors as well!
4. #Manhole (＃マンホール)
Year : 2023
Runtime (Minutes): 99
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: -
Genre: Suspense,Thriller
Director: KUMAKIRI Kazuyoshi 熊切和嘉
Movie Synopsis:
Kawamura is a promising young man with a great job and a fiancée whose father owns the company. On the way home from a party on the eve of his wedding day, he falls to a deep bottom of a manhole. Trapped and horrified by incidents one after another, he gets desperate to escape and uses his only reliable tool, a smartphone, to locate himself with GPS, and reach police, friends and even social network’s anonymous crowd. The clock ticks mercilessly and the morning is nearing. Can the groom get out of the hole intact and get married happily ever after to continue with his successful life?
5. MONDAYS: See you "this" week! (MONDAYS このタイムループ、上司に気づかせないと終わらない)
Year : 2022
Runtime (Minutes): 82
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: P12
Genre: Comedy
Director: TAKEBAYASHI Ryo 竹林亮
Movie Synopsis:
Working over night with colleagues, a head injury from a traffic accident, constant sleepiness on the job and a bird slamming itself into the office window... on top of a pressing deadline at her advertising job, YOSHIKAWA is having the worst week ever. As if her headache wasn’t bad enough, her coworkers ENDO and MURATA are going mad and claim the entire office is stuck in a time loop... but after a few rounds of reliving the same mundane Monday, YOSHIKAWA soon realises they're telling the truth. Now the teammates must work together, enlighten their oblivious colleagues and find a way to end this endless Monday!
6.SHYLOCK'S CHILDREN (シャイロックの子供たち)
Year : 2023
Runtime (Minutes): 122
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: 16
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Director: MOTOKI Katsuhide 本木克英
Movie Synopsis:
A million yen goes missing at the Nagahara Branch of Tokyo Daiichi Bank. Long-time customer service staff Nishiki (Sadawo Abe) sets out on a mission to uncover the truth together with his colleagues Airi (Aya Ueto) and Tabata (Yuta Tamamori). After coming across one tiny question, they find themselves in the face of the massive corruption hidden behind the missing money… but this was merely the beginning of a scandal that would shake the megabank to its very core.
7. Small, Slow but Steady (ケイコ 目を澄ませて)
Year : 2022
Runtime (Minutes): 99
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: P12
Genre: Drama
Director: MIYAKE Sho 三宅唱
Movie Synopsis:
Keiko, a young pro boxer, was born with a hearing impairment. Boxing is a real challenge for her, but the club she belongs to is like a second home. After winning two difficult fights, a creeping fear begins to grow inside her. The club chairman, the only person who had accepted her as a boxer, is plagued by health issues and is losing his eyesight. Having learned that the gym is about to close for good, a confused Keiko goes on to her third bout. But perhaps the biggest challenge she faces is trying to understand the true nature and strength of her will to fight.
8. The Lines That Define Me (線は、僕を描く)
Year : 2022
Runtime (Minutes): 106
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: P12
Genre: Drama
Director: KOIZUMI Nori 小泉徳宏
Movie Synopsis:
After witnessing Sosuke’s first intimate encounter with a sumi-e painting, ink-painting master Kozan Shinoda spontaneously invites him to become his pupil and introduces him to the delicate, emotional power of bleeding ink. Overcome by the recent loss of his family, the chance gradually offers Sosuke a new path by which to ruminate on the dichotomising beauty of nature and ritualise his grief and self-expression. Stunningly captured, the tempo of the strokes and their delivery invigorate the sumi-e, offering a window into the traditional intergenerational sensibilities of Japanese artistic disciplines.
9. THE WATER FLOWS TO THE SEA (水は海に向かって流れる)
Year : 2023
Runtime (Minutes): 123
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: 13
Genre: Drama
Director: MAEDA Tetsu 前田哲
Movie Synopsis:
High school student Naotatsu (ONISHI Riku) decides to move in with his uncle Shigemichi (KORA Kengo) to live closer to school. However, on the day of his arrival, the one who came to pick him up at the station was a woman named Sasaki (HIROSE Suzu). She takes him to the shared house where Shigemichi lives. From that day on, a chaotic yet amusing life begins with the residents of the shared house. Naotatsu is drawn to Sasaki, who rarely expresses her feelings, only to learn that she promised herself never to fall in love. What he doesn't know is that he is connected to her past and her decision.
10.The Zen Diary (土を喰らう十二カ月)
Year : 2022
Runtime (Minutes): 111
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: P12
Genre: Drama
Director: NAKAE Yuji 中江裕司
Movie Synopsis:
Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking food with vegetables he grows and mushrooms he picks in the hills. His routine is happily disturbed when Machiko, his editor/love interest, occasionally visits. She loves to eat and he loves to cook for her. Tsutomu seems content with his daily life. On the other hand, he still hasn't let go of his wife's ashes although she died 13 years ago...
10.We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (花束みたいな恋をした)
Year : 2021
Runtime (Minutes): 124
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: 16
Genre: Drama,Romance
Director: DOI Nobuhiro 土井裕泰
Movie Synopsis:
The last train at midnight leaves a group of stragglers stranded at the station, who opt for a bar rather than paying for a taxi home. Among them are twenty-two-years-olds Mugi and Kinu, whose curiosity for one another is fated to have a lasting and more intricate outcome than initially expected. Caught in the period of youth when many enter the gruelling Japanese workforce, the pair live under the pressure of maintaining an income without compromising their creative passions. Patient and bittersweet, this romance chronicles the fleeting lifespan of love, as Mugi and Kinu reckon with the hard realities of societal life imposing on their relationship and senses of self.
11. Yokaipedia (ゴーストブック おばけずかん)
Year : 2022
Runtime (Minutes): 113
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: 13
Genre: Youth, Adventure
Director: YAMAZAKI Takashi 山崎貴
Movie Synopsis:
After making wishes at a local shrine, Itsuki, Taichi and Sonny are visited by a ghost-like sprite during the night, who tells them about a mysterious Ghost Book that can grant any wish their hearts desire. But when the boys visit a second-hand bookstore in search of the book, chaos ensues as they are transported to an alternate universe inhabited by monsters! Not far behind is their schoolteacher Hayama (ARAGAKI Yui), who’s been dragged into the mayhem. The group soon realises they have a mission: they must capture the monsters in the Ghost Book before time runs out. Can they change destiny and return home before it's too late?
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
1.Your Lovely Smile (あなたの微笑み)
Year : 2022
Runtime (Minutes): 100
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: 12
Genre: Drama
Director: LIM Kah Wai リム・カーワイ
Movie Synopsis:
This film is a road movie about an independent filmmaker, Hirobumi Watanabe travelled from Okinawa to Hokkaido trying to sell his films to various arthouse cinemas during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the road, he always met a mysterious girl with different identities. Finally, he arrived at the northest cinema in Japan which changed his destiny.
2. Detective Conan the Movie: The Last Wizard of the Century (名探偵コナン 世紀末の魔術師)
Year : 2003
Runtime (Minutes): 107
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: P12
Genre: Animation
Director: KODAMA Kenji こだま 兼嗣 /
Movie Synopsis:
The 7th feature film of Detective Conan the Movie series. Kyoto is the cultural capital of Japan, full of history, nature and romance. There, Conan meets up with his friend and rival Heiji once again, teaming up to solve the case of a stolen Buddha statue! And then, there’s the case of Heiji’s first love…? Emotions run high in this buddy-style mystery!
3. Detective Conan the Movie: Crossroad in The Ancient Capital (名探偵コナン 迷宮の十字路)
Year : 2003
Runtime (Minutes): 107
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: P12
Genre: Animation
Director: KODAMA Kenji こだま 兼嗣
Movie Synopsis:
The 7th feature film of Detective Conan the Movie series. Kyoto is the cultural capital of Japan, full of history, nature and romance. There, Conan meets up with his friend and rival Heiji once again, teaming up to solve the case of a stolen Buddha statue! And then, there’s the case of Heiji’s first love…? Emotions run high in this buddy-style mystery!
4. Detective Conan the Movie: The Private Eyes' Requiem
(名探偵コナン 探偵たちの鎮魂歌)
Year : 2006
Runtime (Minutes): 111
Original Language : Japanese
Country: Japan
Rating: P12
Genre: Animation
Director: YAMAMOTO Yasuichiro 山本 泰一郎
Movie Synopsis:
Detective Conan faces his worst crisis yet in this 10th anniversary feature film! Someone has figured out Conan’s real identity as Shinichi Kudo. Worse, he’s taken Conan’s friends hostage; in 12 hours, a bomb will kill them all. Can Conan solve the case, save his friends and keep his secret identity?
