Jun Ichikawa
出生 : 1948-11-25, Tokyo, Japan
死亡 : 2008-09-19
略歴
Jun Ichikawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was first a director of television commercials before adding filmmaking to his creative activities. His most famous film outside of Japan was Tony Takitani, an adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage after suddenly collapsing at a restaurant, shortly before his latest film, Buy a Suit, was to premier at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Editor
Taking his camera and microphone to the heart of the megalopolis of Japan, the director combines scenes of the Tokyo with on-screen commentary and questions to articulate his vision of a city or to ask questions about it in spite of an audience which may think the questions are already answered and need not be asked or commented on.
Cinematography
Taking his camera and microphone to the heart of the megalopolis of Japan, the director combines scenes of the Tokyo with on-screen commentary and questions to articulate his vision of a city or to ask questions about it in spite of an audience which may think the questions are already answered and need not be asked or commented on.
Editor
Yuki travels to Tokyo in search of her missing brother, and searches the streets with an address on a postcard as her only lead.
Screenplay
Yuki travels to Tokyo in search of her missing brother, and searches the streets with an address on a postcard as her only lead.
Cinematography
Yuki travels to Tokyo in search of her missing brother, and searches the streets with an address on a postcard as her only lead.
Screenplay
Taking his camera and microphone to the heart of the megalopolis of Japan, the director combines scenes of the Tokyo with on-screen commentary and questions to articulate his vision of a city or to ask questions about it in spite of an audience which may think the questions are already answered and need not be asked or commented on.
Director
Taking his camera and microphone to the heart of the megalopolis of Japan, the director combines scenes of the Tokyo with on-screen commentary and questions to articulate his vision of a city or to ask questions about it in spite of an audience which may think the questions are already answered and need not be asked or commented on.
Director
Yuki travels to Tokyo in search of her missing brother, and searches the streets with an address on a postcard as her only lead.
Director
Juri, an elementary school girl, loses sight of her true self while acting out a false self to play along with her friends. Kanako, a classmate who used to be the popular girl but has been bullied lately, tells Juri that the girl she is now is not her true self, and Juri sympathizes.
Script
会社員・筒井(西島秀俊)は、離婚歴があり子供もいる瞳(寺島しのぶ)と結婚。瞳の母・正子(倍賞美津子)や妹の紗江(栗山千明)との関係も良好で、結婚生活に不満はない。しかしふと、何かを諦めてこの生活を選んでしまったような気持ちに陥る。ある日、家族で訪れたバーニーズ・ニューヨークで、かつて同棲していたオカマ・閻魔(田口トモロヲ)と偶然、再会。そして、その過去を瞳に話してしまい…。
Director
会社員・筒井(西島秀俊)は、離婚歴があり子供もいる瞳(寺島しのぶ)と結婚。瞳の母・正子(倍賞美津子)や妹の紗江(栗山千明)との関係も良好で、結婚生活に不満はない。しかしふと、何かを諦めてこの生活を選んでしまったような気持ちに陥る。ある日、家族で訪れたバーニーズ・ニューヨークで、かつて同棲していたオカマ・閻魔(田口トモロヲ)と偶然、再会。そして、その過去を瞳に話してしまい…。
Screenplay
Mortality and death seen 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 deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who has decided to spend his final days in the family home. As the story progresses, Koichi finds unexpected solace from his grief by letting his troubled student visit and meet with his father in the hopes that he will understand the meaning of life and death.
Director
Mortality and death seen 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 deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who has decided to spend his final days in the family home. As the story progresses, Koichi finds unexpected solace from his grief by letting his troubled student visit and meet with his father in the hopes that he will understand the meaning of life and death.
Screenplay
美大で芸術を学んだトニー（イッセー尾形）は、デザイン会社へ就職、その後独立してイラストレーターになり、自宅のアトリエで仕事をこなすようになる。そんなトニーが一人の女性、出版社編集部員・小沼英子（宮沢りえ）に恋をする。
Director
美大で芸術を学んだトニー（イッセー尾形）は、デザイン会社へ就職、その後独立してイラストレーターになり、自宅のアトリエで仕事をこなすようになる。そんなトニーが一人の女性、出版社編集部員・小沼英子（宮沢りえ）に恋をする。
Director
竜馬が暗殺されて13年が過ぎた。新政府の役人・菅野覚兵衛は、師弟関係にあった坂本竜馬の十三回忌を催すため、竜馬の元妻である義理の姉おりょうを訪ねた。おりょうは西村松兵衛という冴えない男と電撃再婚し、ボロの長屋で貧乏生活を送っていた。しかし、実はこの時すでにおりょうには竜馬にそっくりの愛人・虎蔵がいた。おりょうは松兵衛と再婚したはいいが、貧乏と退屈な暮らしにすっかり愛想を尽かしてしまい、虎蔵と駆け落ちしようとしていたのだ。覚兵衛は、情けない松兵衛を見かねて、おりょうを取り戻す作戦を立てるのだったが…。
Director
味の素のCMで息の合ったところを見せた田中麗奈と樹木希林を主演に、林真理子の短編小説「一年ののち」を市川準が描いた、一年限りの恋物語。つきあっていた彼と別れたばかりのエリコは気分転換にと転職しては見たものの、その退屈な日々は以前とあまり変わらなかった。そんなある日、エリートサラリーマンとの合コンに出かけたエリコは不思議な雰囲気を漂わすタムラという男に興味を持つようになる。数日後、エリコからのデートの誘いに快く応じたタムラだったが、タムラはデートの最中にアメリカに留学中の恋人がいることを告白する……。
Screenplay
味の素のCMで息の合ったところを見せた田中麗奈と樹木希林を主演に、林真理子の短編小説「一年ののち」を市川準が描いた、一年限りの恋物語。つきあっていた彼と別れたばかりのエリコは気分転換にと転職しては見たものの、その退屈な日々は以前とあまり変わらなかった。そんなある日、エリートサラリーマンとの合コンに出かけたエリコは不思議な雰囲気を漂わすタムラという男に興味を持つようになる。数日後、エリコからのデートの誘いに快く応じたタムラだったが、タムラはデートの最中にアメリカに留学中の恋人がいることを告白する……。
Original Concept
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
Director
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
Director
Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.
Screenplay
A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.
Director
A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.
Original Story
Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He gives no explanation of his absence and his family asks no questions. It is only through the questions that a young writer named Asakura, who is secretly in love with Hisako, poses of local shop owners, that we learn that Hamanaka's disappearance may be related to the fact that the woman everyone thought he would marry, Tami - who runs the cafe across the street from the Hamanaka electric store - had ended up tying the knot with another man who died soon thereafter.
Director
Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He gives no explanation of his absence and his family asks no questions. It is only through the questions that a young writer named Asakura, who is secretly in love with Hisako, poses of local shop owners, that we learn that Hamanaka's disappearance may be related to the fact that the woman everyone thought he would marry, Tami - who runs the cafe across the street from the Hamanaka electric store - had ended up tying the knot with another man who died soon thereafter.
Writer
手塚治虫とともにトキワ荘に暮らす、寺田ヒロオ。手塚が越した後、安孫子素雄や藤本弘ら多くの漫画家を夢見る若者たちがトキワ荘に住みつくようになる。早くから住人だった寺田は、よき相談役で兄貴分と慕われるが、後から来た若者たちが次々に売れていく中、時代に取り残されていく。しかし彼はねたみもせず、静かにみんなを応援する。
Director
手塚治虫とともにトキワ荘に暮らす、寺田ヒロオ。手塚が越した後、安孫子素雄や藤本弘ら多くの漫画家を夢見る若者たちがトキワ荘に住みつくようになる。早くから住人だった寺田は、よき相談役で兄貴分と慕われるが、後から来た若者たちが次々に売れていく中、時代に取り残されていく。しかし彼はねたみもせず、静かにみんなを応援する。
Director
Living in an old Tokyo district, Kenichi works at a second-hand bookshop to support his sister, Yoko, a high school student. When Yoko graduates, she starts work at a photo shop. By the time, Kenichi's girlfriend has decided to marry someone else as she is tired of waiting for him. When Yoko starts dating Kenichi's best friend, Makoto , he is strangely resentful, but when Makoto is involved in a fatal accident, brother and sister resume their routine life.
Screenplay
Based on the story of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Ran as a double feature with Chibusa (1993).
Director
Based on the story of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Ran as a double feature with Chibusa (1993).
Writer
Filmed in a documentary style six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.
Director
Filmed in a documentary style six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.
Director
Kin chan no Cinema Jack is an anthology film starring Yuen Biao and produced by Jackie Chan
Screenplay
An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.
Director
An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.
Editor
A story after 100 years from now. A man, Komori who could not receive education and lived by the flow of life came to attend a funeral in a small town that is remote. So, by chance I meet Uchida who is a childhood friend. He is growing up as an intelligent man with a realistic ambition of "conquering the universe."
Producer
A story after 100 years from now. A man, Komori who could not receive education and lived by the flow of life came to attend a funeral in a small town that is remote. So, by chance I meet Uchida who is a childhood friend. He is growing up as an intelligent man with a realistic ambition of "conquering the universe."
Screenplay
西伊豆の小さな港町。生まれつき体が弱く、あまやかされて育ったわがままな１８歳の少女・つぐみ。夏休み、東京の大学に通う従姉妹のまりあが帰ってきて、姉の陽子と３人で穏やかな日々を送っていた。そんなある日、つぐみは美術館に勤める恭一と出会い、運命的なものを感じ恋に落ちる。しかし、つぐみに横恋慕する不良少年たちが恭一に暴行を加え、つぐみの愛犬までも殺してしまう。
Director
西伊豆の小さな港町。生まれつき体が弱く、あまやかされて育ったわがままな１８歳の少女・つぐみ。夏休み、東京の大学に通う従姉妹のまりあが帰ってきて、姉の陽子と３人で穏やかな日々を送っていた。そんなある日、つぐみは美術館に勤める恭一と出会い、運命的なものを感じ恋に落ちる。しかし、つぐみに横恋慕する不良少年たちが恭一に暴行を加え、つぐみの愛犬までも殺してしまう。
Director
Via the New York Times: "The solemn, intent faces of the Japanese schoolboys playing video games in Jun Ichikawa's "No Life King" bespeak a new type of modern horror. Addicted to their favorite new game (from which the film takes its title), these children have become seriously estranged from the real world. The film's constant emphasis is on the ways in which this has been allowed to happen, and on how emblematic it is of larger attitudes in a technological society. When a young boy trying to converse with his mother must compete with a home computer for her attention, it's not hard to see why the boy has retreated into his own computer-dominated world."
Director
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.
Screenplay
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.
Director
性格が“ブス”な女の子が、上京して様々な経験を重ねる中で自分の殻を打ち破って成長していく姿を描く。18歳になる森下麦子は片田舎で生まれ育ち、性格のひねくれた暗い女の子だった。そんな“心のブス”を治すため上京し、置屋を営む叔母・胡蝶のところで鈴女という名前をもらい芸者見習いをしながら高校に通うことになる。
Screenplay
Music video telling the story of idol Yuki Saito who has fled Japan and headed for Hong Kong...
Director
Music video telling the story of idol Yuki Saito who has fled Japan and headed for Hong Kong...
