Screenplay: Jun Ichikawa

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Issei Ogata · Rie Miyazawa · Shinohara Takahumi · Hidetoshi Nishijima

Synopsis Due to his Western name, Tony was shunned by other kids and spent a solitary childhood. Though gifted as an artist, his drawings lacked feeling, so as an adult, he carved a career as a technical illustrator. Then in middle...

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Hajime Hana · Yumi Nishiyama · Hitoshi Ueki · Kei Tani

Synopsis A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Riho Makise · Tomoko Nakajima · Yasuyo Shirashima · Hiroyuki Sanada

Synopsis Tugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a few people are attracted by her beauty and unique character. In this summer,...

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Rena Tanaka · Yukiyoshi Ozawa · Yoichiro Saito · Cillian Joe

Synopsis Based on a novel by Hayashi Mariko, Tokyo Marigold is the story of a modern relationship in modern Tokyo under modern circumstances. Eriko (Rena Tanaka) has no definite plans, but is definitely single. Tamura (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) is definitely not single,...

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Ittoku Kishibe · Masayuki Shionoya · Akira Yamanouchi · Reiko Nanao

Synopsis In the early 1990s a spate of hospital films were released in Japan, including Takita Yojiro’s two Let’s Go to the Hospital comedies, Itami Juzo’s drama The Last Dance and Ichikawa Jun’s Dying at a Hospital, shot in a semi-documentary...

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Yoshiyuki Omori · Arata Furuta · Katsuhisa Namase

Synopsis Feature based on real-life events about a number of young artists responsible for revolutionary innovation in the famous Japanese Manga comic strips in the fifties.

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Miyoko Asô · Moeko Ezawa · Takao Handa · Masato Irie

Synopsis "Aogeba Totoshi" deals with the issues of mortality and death through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he...

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Yukiko Sunahara · Sabakichi · Takaaki Yamazaki · Shin'ichi Kashiwagi

Synopsis Veteran director Jun Ichikawa (Tony Takitani), who died suddenly the night that he finished editing this film (originally a private project), reveals his more personal and playful side while filming with nothing more than a few friends as actors and...

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Kyôzô Nagatsuka · Kaori Momoi · Mitsuko Baisho · Satoko Abe

Synopsis Hamanaka, a middle-aged native of Tokyo's old shitamachi district, returns to it after years of meandering about the country. Soon he is establishing a rapprochement with his jilted wife and revamps his father's dusty appliance store into a shop that...

Direction James Bogle · Kin'ichi Hagimoto · Jun Ichikawa · Naosuke Kurosawa

Cast Maggie Cheung · Harold Hopkins · Issei Ogata · Josephine Siao

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Masashi Tashiro · Kaho Minami · Nana Horie · Ikkei Watanabe

Synopsis Gotsu, a 40-year-old man who works at a hotel barber shop, lives with his young girlfriend, Kayoko. One day, his ex-wife tells him that his daughter Minori, whom he hasn't seen since she was a child, comes to Gotsu when...