MTFF Presents The Royal Hotel

Sushi Hana is sponsoring the Montana Film Festival’s showing of The Royal Hotel.

Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ’The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town.

Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

Thursday October 12th 8:00 & Sunday October 15th 8:00PM

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May’s 25th Anniversary Special

In celebration of our 25th anniversary, we're offering a 25% discount on our delicious Tokusei, Tokusen, and Chotokusen combination platters every Wednesday night for the month of May. These platters are the perfect way to indulge in a variety of premium sushi items at an affordable price.

For 25 years, we've been dedicated to providing the Missoula community with the highest quality sushi in a comfortable and welcoming environment. We're grateful for your support.

So mark your calendars for Wednesday night and come enjoy our incredible combination platters at a discounted price.

Gardening Marine Forests

Sushi Hana proudly supports the The Roxy Theater and they host the annual the International Wildlife Film Festival. This year we are helping them present a documentary about Korean women managing and restoring kelp forests, Gardening Marine Forests.

Gardening Marine Forests will show Sunday April 23rd at 12:45 as part of a double feature with Secrets of the Sea.

The International Wildlife Film Festival runs April 22 - 27. More information, schedules and tickets are all here.

JFF+ Independent Cinema

Some of you might have noticed that we are big film fans at Sushi Hana Downtown are we’re excited from the release of the JFF+ Independent Cinema streaming program. The streaming service is free and the films in the teaser look amazing. Here’s a snippet about the program from their about page.


“The Japan Foundation (JF) is excited to launch a new program, JFF+ INDEPENDENT CINEMA. This is a free online streaming program that features 12 Japanese independent films selected by managers from independent theaters, so-called “mini-theaters” throughout Japan. Mini-theaters have nurtured the diversity of the Japanese cinema culture and brought it up to the current state.

Since 2020, the Japan Foundation (JF) has held the JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL ONLINE twice for overseas viewers, and has received a great response. The aim of the new program JFF+ INDEPENDENT CINEMA is to show the diversity of Japanese cinema. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, around 490 Japanese films were newly released to the public in 2021 (excluding film festivals and non-profit screenings). Thus, although the number of Japanese films produced is one of the largest in the world, only a handful of films have been introduced overseas. Therefore, this program provides a great chance for the international audiences to discover new Japanese films.

The films are streamed on our website JFF+ (Japanese Film Festival Plus) that is dedicated to Japanese films and run by JF. Alongside the films, interviews with directors and stories of mini-theaters bring the current state of Japanese film culture from multiple perspectives in its own context. “

This looks to be a great opportunity to check out some amazing films from some of Japan’s finest film makers.

Click HERE for more info




Happy New Year!

Osechi is Japanese traditional New Years dish. The act of sharing these celebratory dishes is also a way of ringing in the New Year by sharing intentions of health, prosperity, and happiness with family. My family wasn’t that traditional, so we just had mochi, Ozoni ( soup with mochi in it), or oshiruko( sweet bean soup with mochi in it) every year. This picture was taken in October in Japan. It’s actually all food model. At the department store, they take orders of osechi for New Year’s Day.

Thank you for supporting Sushi Hana 2022. We wish you happiness, health and prosperity.