Japanese Film Festival blossoming in April

The fifth Japanese Film Festival opens tonight at the Light House Cinema in Dublin, before going nationwide.

The festival, which used to be in November, took a break last year to reposition itself in April, “a time,” the brochure says, “associated in Japan with new beginnings and the famous cherry blossoms.”

The festival is blossoming — presented by Access Cinema, in association with the Embassy of Japan, this year’s programme is its biggest, with more screenings and more venues as part of a tour that takes in Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford.