Lunch or Dinner (Jour de Fête)
Mon 24/03/2014 – 12:00 PM
Our culinary trip to the land of Pacific salmon and steaming rice starts on Monday 24/3 in the relocated and renovated restaurant Jour de Fête, where a suitable lunch or dinner is available for the occasion. At noon (from 12 noon) a generous Japanese lunch is provided: marinated raw salmon, salad with sesame vinaigrette and … →
Film Festival 2014 – Programme, practical, etc
26/03/2014 – 30/03/2014
Program, practical, prices, tickets, … →
Unforgiven
Wed 26/03/2014 – 8:00 PM
The original Unforgiven starring Clint Eastwood was set in the northern Far West, while this Japanese remake is set in the equally inhospitable and chilly Hokkaido. The leading role in this epic film is reserved for Watanabe Ken, best known to us as Tom Cruise’s sidekick in The Last Samurai and Japanese industrial magnate on … →
Reception – sake and sushi combo
Wed 26/03/2014 – 10:35 PM
With the paraphrased saying “Never change a winning reception”, the Gohan Team will be happy to host the opening reception again this year. See you on Wednesday after the 8pm film in and around the Skoop Café!!! →
Au Revoir L'Été
Thu 27/03/2014 – 8:00 PM
Under the incessant chirping of crickets and the languid heat of the Japanese summer, we meet Sakuko, 18 years old and recently graduated from high school. In order to study for her university entrance exam, she accompanies her aunt Mikie to her mother’s house in a small coastal town. However, there will be little time … →
Why Don't You Play In Hell?
Fri 28/03/2014 – 8:00 PM
The trailer for this completely crazy violence fest should actually say enough: this is completely, but then completely, delightfully off the rails. Don’t be fooled though: behind this two-hour barrage of gushing blood, caricatural roars and general hilarity there is indeed a story that reads between the lines like a love letter to cinema. Director … →
Japan Square Party (Sioux Café)
Fri 28/03/2014 – 9:30 PM
PARTY TIME + Japanese surprises Fridag 28/03 from 21h30 in Sioux, Gent VJ KaOSbeat DJ Ynux DJ Bruised banana and the silent duck DJ Ynux: coole mix of J-pop & Disco sounds. DJ Bruised banana and the silent duck: “Sultry Antwerp DJ collective. Serving a seamless mix of irresistible records. Collected their speech medals on … →
3/11 Kids Photo Journal
Sat 29/03/2014 – 7:30 PM
3/11 Kids’ Photo Journal 2014 Weekly Planner is a photography project by children affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Since its establishment in June 2011, children from Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefecture have been taking photographs, writing about the progress of the recovery in their hometowns, and as a result, giving an … →
Odayaka
Sat 29/03/2014 – 8:00 PM
Of all the films we have ever shown at this festival, Odayaka probably touches the soul of Japanese society the most. Although this gripping story begins with the tsunami and in its aftermath the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, the focus is mainly on the seemingly stoic way in which the Japanese people dealt with this … →
Abductee
Sat 29/03/2014 – 10:30 PM
Darkness. Chiba, a middle-aged security guard, wakes up with a plastic bag wrapped around his head, hands and feet bound. His location: a shipping container. The location of the shipping container: unknown. Next to him: a mobile phone. This is how this chilling tale begins, which will undoubtedly remind you of films like Buried or … →
Bento-lunch
Sun 30/03/2014 – 12:30 PM
Last year it was a bull’s eye: with full stomachs and the Japanese bentô still lingering on our taste buds, we all sank into the Skoop seats at the noodle-soaked Sukiyaki. You will experience the same blessing again this year, albeit in the even more frivolous Story of Yonosuke, bathed in spring sunshine. Welcome back … →
Story Of Yonosuke
Sun 30/03/2014 – 2:00 PM
Tokyo 1987. Japan is in full bloom, and so are the first-year students at the university. One of them is the unworldly but always cheerful Yonosuke, who quickly wins the hearts of his first friends with his endearing naivety. And those of the audience, because you have never seen someone dance the samba so clumsily … →
Film Festival 2014 – Sponsors, photos, etc
26/03/2014 – 30/03/2014
Thank you! Sponsors, photos, … We thank our sponsors, generous donors and partners. Without their support, the Japan-Square Film Festival would not be possible. →
Japanse Whiskey Tasting (Zebrapoint)
Sun 30/11/2014 – 3:00 PM
Japanese whiskey? Japan has a strong bond with whiskey. That story begins in 1918. While Europe was still licking its wounds from the First World War, Japanese chemistry student Masataka Taketsuru traveled around Scotland to unravel the secrets of this ‘water of life’. In this tasting session, we take you to Japan where Taketsuru introduced … →