Eight Japanese films will be screened at the annual Japanese Film Festival in Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City from October 28 to November 11.

(File photo courtesy of Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange)

The festival will feature films, animation films and documentaries which feature love amongst teenagers, families and friends. Most of them were released this year.

The event will open with director Norihiro Koizumi’s 'Chihayafuru' and 'Chihayafuru Part II', based on the famous manga series with the same name by Yuki Suetsugu.  Both of them honour karuta, a traditional Japanese card game and show how young people love and have preserved the game.

Three other movies are the comedy 'What a Wonderful Family'! by Yoji Yamada, historical film 'Magnificent Nine' by Yoshihiro Nakamura, and horror film 'Creepy' by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

The festival will also feature Maromu Hosoda’s film entitled 'The Boy and the Beast' which has won the 2016 Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, and Tatsuyuki Nagai’s animation film 'Anthem of the Heart', one of five nominations for the prize.

Documentary 'Tsukiji Wonderlands' by Naotaro Endo is about the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, renowned as 'the world’s largest fish market'.

All films will be shown with Vietnamese and English subtitles.

Organised by the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Viet Nam, the festival will run from 28 October to 11 November at the Dong Da Cinema on 890 Tran Hung Dao Street in District 5.

Tickets are 30,000VND (1.3 USD) and are available at the venue’s box office.

The film programme will also take place in Ha Noi from 11-20 November and Da Nang from 25-27 November.

More information on the film schedule can be seen at http://vn.japanesefilmfest.org/.

(Source: VNA)