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Toronto Japanese Film Festival

What: Film festival
Where: The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Crt.
When: June 17 & 18
Genre: Various
Why you should watch: The Toronto Japanese Film Festival celebrates its 12th year at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in North York. Highlights of the festival include: Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn, a thoughtful drama by action director Ryûhei Kitamura, about three siblings that run an inn in between worlds where visitors must decide to return to their previous lives or move on and be reborn; Roleless, a quiet, existential drama, by Masahiko Sato, Yutaro Seki, Kentaro Hirase, about an ordinary man who encounters a parallel version of his own life; the anime film Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Ramaa, a Japanese-Indian co-production based on the epic Sanskrit tale; and the drama Small, Slow, but Steady from director Sho Miyake, about a young woman with a hearing impairment who trains to be a professional boxer.