Jun Ichikawa

病院で死ぬということ

Jun Ichikawa

Ittoku Kishibe, Masayuki Shionoya

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.

たどんとちくわ

Jun Ichikawa

Koji Yakusho, Хироюки Санада

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.

トニー滝谷

Jun Ichikawa

Issei Ogata, Rie Miyazawa

A Japanese illustrator falls for a shopaholic client.

あおげば尊し

Jun Ichikawa

Terry Ito, Hiroko Yakushimaru

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.

Bu su

Jun Ichikawa

Yasuko Tomita, Mitsuko Oka

Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. The daughter of a once great geisha, Mugiko is entitled by blood to train in the geishas ancient art of classical Japanese song and dance.

竜馬の妻とその夫と愛人

Jun Ichikawa

Noritake Kinashi, Kiichi Nakai

Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death.

会社物語 MEMORIES OF YOU

Jun Ichikawa

Hajime Hana, Yumi Nishiyama

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.

東京マリーゴールド

Jun Ichikawa

Rena Tanaka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from overseas, she requests to enter into a relationship with him for just one year.

トキワ荘の青春

Jun Ichikawa

Masahiro Motoki, Sadao Abe

There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, worked, and shared experiences.

東京兄妹

Jun Ichikawa

Yuriko Hirooka, Urara Awata

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.

つぐみ

Jun Ichikawa

Riho Makise, Tomoko Nakajima

Tsugumi, 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.

大阪物語

Jun Ichikawa

Chizuru Ikewaki, Kôsuke Nanno

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.

How to Become Myself

Jun Ichikawa

Riko Narumi, Atsuko Maeda

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.

クレープ

Jun Ichikawa

Masashi Tashiro, Kaho Minami

Based on the story of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Ran as a double feature with Chibusa (1993).

ノーライフキング

Jun Ichikawa

Ryo Takayama, Neko Saito

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."

春、バーニーズで

Jun Ichikawa

Shinobu Terajima, Hidetoshi Nishijima