The Japanese Film Festival, now in its 9th edition, returns to bring the best of new Japanese cinema to Irish audiences with a mix of everything from action to anime and gentle comedies to wonderful oddities. Ireland’s only truly national film festival begins this year in Dundalk on April 1, before visiting Cork, Galway, Maynooth, Sligo, Limerick, Dublin and Waterford. Proceedings will kick off on Sunday March 26 with a special screening of the hit…