The Dejima Japanese Film Festival was named after the artificial island Dejima

Dejima

was a small fan-shaped artificial island built in the bay of Nagasaki in 1634. This island, which was formed by digging a canal through a small peninsula, remained as the single place of direct trade and exchange between Japan and the outside world during the Edo period. Dejima was built to...

 in the bay of Nagasaki, which was used by the Dutch to trade with the Japanese starting in the 17th century. The festival was aimed at the current state of Japanese cinema. The first edition in May 2005 was held in Amsterdam in cinema Het Ketelhuis. A second edition was held in November 2006, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht.

Audience Award winners

• 2005 - The Taste of Tea
  The Taste of Tea
  is the third film by Japanese writer and director Katsuhito Ishii. The film has been referred to as a "surreal" version of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. It was a selection of the Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• 2006 - The Milkwoman

Personnel

The festival was founded and co-directed and co-programmed by Rob van Ham and Luc Lafleur in 2005. After 2005 Rob van Ham left the festival and Luc Lafleur became the only director of the 2006 edition. For both editions Geert van Bremen acted as a Japan intermediary and for the 2006 edition as a co-programmer.

External links

• Dejima Japanese Film Festival

• Japan Times – Article by Alexander Jacoby in The Japan Times
  The Japan Times
  The Japan Times is an English language newspaper published in Japan. Unlike its competitors, the Daily Yomiuri and the International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun, it is not affiliated with a Japanese language media organization...
  
  about Japanese films on festivals abroad (2008).