Jun Ichikawa
- Directing
- November 25, 1948 · Tokyo, Japan
- September 19, 2008
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Buy a Suit · Director, Cinematography
- Tokyo rendering kashu · Editing, Cinematography
- How to Become Myself · Director
- Haru, Bânîzu de · Script, Director
- Aogeba Tôtoshi · Screenplay, Director
- Sunny Home · Self
- Tony Takitani · Director, Screenplay
- Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover · Director
- Tokyo Marigold · Director, Screenplay
- The Whispered City · Director, Original Concept
- Osaka Story · Director
- Tadon and Chikuwa · Screenplay, Director
- Tokyo Lullaby · Director, Story
- Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment · Writer, Director
- The Tokyo Siblings · Director
- Crepe · Director, Screenplay
- Dying at a Hospital · Director, Screenplay
- Kin chan no Cinema Jack · Director
- Kiss off · Director
- Goaisatsu · Screenplay, Director
- I Found Myself Smaller and Smaller · Producer, Editing
- Tsugumi · Director, Screenplay
- No Life King · Director
- Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You · Director, Screenplay
- BU・SU · Director
- Drifting Princess · Screenplay, Director