Jun Ichikawa

from Tokyo, Japan

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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.

Timeline

2009Aged 61

  • Poster for Tokyo rendering kashu

    Editor

  • Poster for Buy a Suit

    Editor

2007Aged 59

  • Poster for How to Become Myself

    Director

2006Aged 58

  • Poster for Aogeba Tôtoshi

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Haru, Bânîzu de

    Script

2005Aged 57

  • Poster for Sunny Home

    Self

2004Aged 56

  • Poster for Tony Takitani

    Screenplay

2002Aged 54

  • Poster for Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover

    Director

2001Aged 53

  • Poster for Tokyo Marigold

    Director

2000Aged 52

  • Poster for The Whispered City

    Original Concept

1999Aged 51

  • Poster for Osaka Story

    Director

1998Aged 50

1997Aged 49

  • Poster for Tokyo Lullaby

    Original Story

1996Aged 48

  • Poster for Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment

    Writer

1995Aged 47

  • Poster for The Tokyo Siblings

    Director

1993Aged 45

  • Poster for Kin chan no Cinema Jack

    Director

  • Poster for Dying at a Hospital

    Writer

  • Poster for Crepe

    Screenplay

1991Aged 43

  • Poster for I Found Myself Smaller and Smaller

    Editor

  • Poster for Goaisatsu

    Screenplay

1990Aged 42

  • Poster for Tsugumi

    Screenplay

1989Aged 41

  • Poster for No Life King

    Director

1988Aged 40

  • Poster for Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You

    Director

1987Aged 39

  • Poster for BU・SU

    Director

1986Aged 38

  • Poster for Hyo-Ryu-Ki

    Screenplay