New Delhi Delhi India NewsVoir The much-awaited annual celebration of Japanese Films in India is back again as an online edition in 2022 The festivals second digital edition is currently running from 14 to 28 February 2022 where we bring you a series of titles that you can enjoy for free from the comfort of your home Here is your guide for February 2022 highlighting the 5 best titles suggested by the Programming Team of Japan Foundation that you must stream from the line-up this year to be enticed by the wonders of the Japanese cinema The Japanese movie season with the Japan Foundation continues 1 Under the Open Sky Premiering at Toronto IFF and bagging the Best Actor accolade at Chicago IFF Miwa Nishikawas touching and gritty drama about the life of a former yakuza Japanese mobster is a film that no cinephile should miss One of the biggest highlights of the 2022 edition this award-winning powerhouse is a testament to the profound creativity and humanism of female directors in Japan Tags drama yakuza female directors award-winning 2 Rashomon Every person alive has heard of this masterpiece and every one to come will continue to hear of it Japans most legendary and celebrated director Akira Kurosawas timeless masterpiece is streaming at JFF this year Golden Lion Honorary Oscar and a place on every Film List does not even begin to do justice to the iconic status of Rashomon If youve seen it watch it again if youve not what are you waiting for Tags drama classic Oscar iconic 3 Its a Summer Film Lets make a movie together Have you ever fancied that with a close friend Well in this film weve got a teenage girl passionate about samurai films and an enigmatic boy getting together to make a film that transcends life itself This is one coming of age heartfelt teenage story that will pull at the strings of your heart and have you smiling goofily Tags coming of age teenage sci-fi 4 Masked Ward A tense mystery film set in the eerie confines of a hospital where a chilling psychological battle unfolds and eventually leads into a chain of surprising twists The film is an adaptation of a bestselling book written by a real-life doctor and features two of Japans leading young actors KentaroSakaguchi and Mei Nagano So get ready to have your brains turned dizzy with a thriller that makes you scream at your screen Tags thriller drama psychological 5 Patema Inverted In two worlds set upside-down to each other there is a girl and there is a boy a love that makes characters fall into the sky and rise onto the underground In conventional Japanese anime fashion this film is a touching animation that creatively depicts the beauty of love friendship and courage So put on your adventure hats and glide into a world brimming with possibilities Tags sci-fi anime romance fantasy adventure JFF Online is currently available from February 14 - 27 2022 A line-up for 20 films is available to stream on jffjpfgojpwatchjffonline2022india Image The digital edition of JFF 2022 is currently running from 14 to 28 February22 PWR PWR

New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI/NewsVoir): The much-awaited annual celebration of Japanese Films in India is back again as an online edition in 2022.

New Delhi Dec 24 PTI The Japan Foundation on Friday announced that the fifth edition of Japanese Film Festival JFF will kickstart from January 2022 in IndiaBeing organised in partnership with PVR Cinemas the film gala will go on a multi-city tour starting in Delhi from January 14 to 16 followed by Chennai from February 4 to 6 and Bengaluru from February 11 to 13 at select PVR cinemasThe digital edition of the film festival will kickstart from February 14 and will conclude on February 27During the festival a diverse and exciting lineup of 11 critically-acclaimed Japanese films will be showcasedKoji Sato Director General at Japan Foundation New Delhi said they are extremely delighted to organise the Japanese Film Festival and hopes it will help consolidate the relations between the people of two countriesThe success of the last four editions of the festival and the overwhelming response of the Indian audience towards embracing Japanese culture have prompted us to bring it back to several of our big cities JFF-India 2022 aims to strengthen the longstanding relationship between the two nations by offering Indian audiences a sense of contemporary Japanese film culture and everyday experience Sato said in a statementThe popularity of Japanese content has been distinctly growing in the Indian landscape Sato saidWe are delighted and grateful for the special place that the festival has carved for itself in the Indian landscape Keeping consumer safety at utmost the hybrid platform will help us reach a wider audience base and we are hopeful that the festival will be even stronger this year he addedIn a bid to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Japan and India the festival will focus on its diverse line-up of films such as Wife of a Spy Josee Tiger and the Fish Ramayana The Legend of Prince and Liar x LiarThe films selected will be screened in Japanese with English subtitles across select PVR cinemas with an aim to offer the Indian audience a sense of Japanese culture art and experiences PTI KKP RB RB