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New Delhi: Japan Foundation hosted the sixth annual edition of the Japanese Film Festival India in New Delhi, in association with PVR INOX on 12th October. The event at PVR Select (Anupam) commenced with inaugural speeches followed by the screening of the highly awaited ‘We Made a Beautiful Bouquet.’ The film is written by legendary Screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto, who won the Best Screenplay award for ‘Monster’ at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in 2023. The Film Festival in Delhi will continue till the 15th of October and then move on to 6 other cities.
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The opening ceremony was graced by Mr. Koji Yoshida, the Director of the Japan Information Centre, the Embassy of Japan in India, and Mr. Koji Sato, Director General of the Japan Foundation New Delhi. The event was attended by notable stalwarts, film critics, and members of the Japan Foundation and Japan Embassy. Influencers and Delhi-based cosplayers attended the screening along with the members of the Delhi Anime Club and Delhi Film Club.
During the inaugural speech, Mr. Koji Sato, Director General of the Japan Foundation New Delhi, expressed, “We are glad that the JFF, which began in 2017, is now in its sixth edition and has become an annual event for the people of India. It goes without saying that anime is very popular in India, but we hope that through this film festival, people will also discover the appeal of the latest Japanese feature films.”
The highlight of this year’s annual JFF India is the screening of the popular anime from the ‘Detective Conan’ universe and the 4K remastered edition of ‘Lupin The 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro,’ the first anime film directed by Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in 1979. The sixth edition of JFF will showcase 10 masterpieces, including ‘A Man’, ‘Anime Supremacy!,’ ‘Intolerance,’ ‘MONDAYS: See you “this” week!,’ ‘Father of the Milky Way Railroad,’ ‘Detective Conan: Episode “ONE”’ ‘Detective Conan the Movie: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital,’ and ‘Detective Conan the Movie: The Last Wizard of the Century.
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Director of the Japan Information Centre at the Embassy of Japan in India, Mr. Koji Yoshida, expressed his appreciation for the film event, stating, “We congratulate Japan Foundation on the successful opening of the sixth edition of the Japanese Film Festival in India. We are confident that the relationship between the two countries will continue to grow through the medium of film.”
Following the screening in Delhi, the film festival will begin in Hyderabad and Chennai between the 2nd and 5th of November at PVR Next Galleria Mall, Punjagutta, Hyderabad, and PVR Escape, Express Avenue, Chennai. It will be followed by Mumbai and Bengaluru from 7th to 10th December at PVR ICON Infinity Mall, Andheri West, Mumbai, and INOX Mantri Square Mall, Bengaluru. The last leg of the JFF India 2023 will take place in Kolkata and Pune between the 18th and 21st of January at INOX South City, Kolkata, and PVR ICON Pavilion Mall, Pune.
Mr. Gautam Dutta, Co-CEO, PVR INOX Ltd. remarked, “We are extremely pleased to host the 6th Edition of the Annual Japanese Film Festival yet again, now as a merger entity of PVR INOX and the largest and the most premium cinema exhibitor in India. Japan Foundation and PVR have shared a long association since 2017 and there has been no looking back ever since. We have taken inspiration from this new emerging trend of film festivals from Japan Foundation and our recent film festivals based on legends of Indian cinema have met with huge success.”
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