Japan Foundation, Manila has just released the 2025 lineup for the annual Japanese Film Festival, Philippines on their social media page earlier this Wednesday, January 8 which featured some familiar titles.
Here's the official lineup:
- Godzilla Minus One (2023)
Post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
- Perfect Days (2023)
Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.
- Akira (1988)
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.
- Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)
Shoyo Hinata joins Karasuno high school's volleyball team to emulate his idol, the Little Giant; but he has to team up with Tobio Kageyama, his former rival.
- Sand Land (2023)
The world has become a desolate desert called SandLand, inhabited by humans and demons.
- DitO (2024)
A defeated boxer and absent father rediscovers the will to fight after an unexpected reunion with the daughter he abandoned to chase his dreams
- Let's Go Karaoke! (2024)
Satomi Oka is worried about his final choir competition but is accosted by a shadowy gangster, Kyouji Narita, who demands karaoke sessions with him.
- Our Secret Diary (2023)
One day, Nozomi Kuroda finds a love letter in her desk from the most popular boy at school, Jun Setoyama. Though embarrassed and puzzled, a secret exchange diary between the two begins when she puts her reply in the shoebox.
- The Imaginary (2023)
Rudger is a boy no one can see, imagined by Amanda to share her thrilling make-believe adventures. When Rudger arrives alone at The Town of Imaginaries, where forgotten Imaginaries live and find work, he faces a mysterious threat.
- Matched (2024)
Rinka is a young wedding planner who has very little luck with romance, as the fact that she is planning the marriage of a teacher she had a crush on forever as the movie begins, eloquently highlights.
- Monster (2023)
A single mother demands answers from a school teacher when her son begins acting strangely. A fight at school causes even more trouble.
- Under The Open Sky (2021)
A lifelong Yakuza, released from prison after 13 years, journeys to find the mother who abandoned him as a child. He is hindered by his gangster past and struggles to adapt to his new life outside of prison.
Venues and official screening schedules are to be announced on a later date.
