LEARN

On the permanent exhibition, the curators or guest specialists give a commentary or a lecture once a month to facilitate deeper understanding. 

Date: First Saturday of every month (In General)
Time: 12:00
Location: Gallery (7th floor)
Language: Japanese

How to apply: No reservation required. You can take part at any stage during the talk.

*When held inside the exhibition area, entrance fee is required.

For more details, please see the following page (in Japanese).

This is a screening program with the introduction by a curator. Prominent films are curated from our collection according to some theme.

Programs (in Japanese)

Kids’ Cinema

This is the program for children up to junior high school students.  It intends to cultivate their aesthetic sensibility and visual literacy through the wonder and joy of films on screen.

Programs (in Japanese)

V4 Countries Kids Film Festival

Animation and other films of the Visegrad Four (V4: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia), along with their cultures, are showcased for children in this program.

Programs (in Japanese)

Events outside NFAJ

Kids’ Cinema has been also held outside of NFAJ, to bring films to children nationwide.
– Circulation screenings around the country “F Cinema Project: Kids’ Cinema: Japanese Animation on Screen!”

Celebrating UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (October 27), this special event provides the opportunity to learn the importance of moving image preservation.

・UNESCO’s Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images

Programs

・2024　Magnetic Tape Alert: What You Can Do Now to Preserve Our Memories on Videotape

・2023　SAWAMURA Shirogoro, The Great Star of Early Period Films Lectures and a Special Screening of Goromasamune Koshiden [digitally restored]

・2022　[Screening and Lecture] Film Censorship in Pre-war Japan: A Perspective of the Film Scenes “Cut” by the Home Ministry

・2021　Magnetic Tape Alert: What You Can Do Before We Lose the Huge Amount of Films on Videotape

・2020　[Screenings and Lectures] Picturesque Japan: Japanese Landscape as Seen by the World

・2019　Special Screenings of The Daughter of Japan [Digitally Restored Version]

・2018　50th Anniversary Special Screenings of 2001: A Space Odyssey in New 70mm

“Rising Filmmakers Project” started in 2018 is a program to support and promote young creators.

A number of film festivals around Japan are advancing the discovery of young filmmaking talent. This 2-day event presents award-winning films endorsed by such leading festivals whose past competition winners have gone on to successful careers in the fiction film industry. Every screening is presented by representatives of each film festival and followed by a talk event with filmmakers and guests.

– 2019   Program

• Information on the event, films and filmmakers
• Conversations with filmmakers and guests

– 2018

• Information on the event, films and filmmakers
• Introducing film festivals
• Conversations with filmmakers and guests
• Filmmakers’ interviews