Dates Announced for TJFF 2014

We are pleased to announce the dates for the TORONTO JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL 2014 are June 12 to 27.

We will be announcing the first 12 films of our 18-film line-up at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s screening of YURUSAREZARUMONO  (UNFORGIVEN) on March 27 at 7pm.

Director Lee Sang-iI remakes Clint Eastwood’s UNFORGIVEN as a samurai film with Ken Watanabe in the lead role. In Meiji Era Hokkaido a formerly lethal swordsman of the shogunate, who has since renounced killing, is driven by poverty to once again take up the sword as a bounty hunter. The film was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Also starring Koichi Sato, Akira Emoto, Yuya Yagira, Eiko Koike and Jun Kimura

Tickets $10 (JCCC members $8)

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