Jun Ichikawa

Jun Ichikawa
Born	November 25, 1948 Tokyo, Japan
Died	September 19, 2008 (aged 59) Tokyo, Japan
Cause of death	Cerebral hemorrhage
Years active	1987–2008

Jun Ichikawa (市川 準 Ichikawa Jun, 25 November 1948 – 19 September 2008) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was first a director of television commercials before adding filmmaking to his creative activities.^[1] His most famous film outside 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,^[2] shortly before his latest film, Buy a Suit, was to premier at the Tokyo International Film Festival.^[2]

Filmography

• Buy A Suit (2008)
• How to Become Myself (2007)
• Aogeba Tôtoshi (2006)
• Tony Takitani (2004)
• Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover (2002)
• Tokyo Marigold (2001)
• Zawa-zawa Shimo-Kitazawa (2000)
• Osaka Story (1999)
• Tadon to Chikuwa (1998)
• Tokyo Lullaby (1997)
• Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996)
• The Tokyo Siblings (1995)
• Kurêpu (1993)
• Dying at a Hospital (1993)
• Kin Chan no Cinema Jack (1993) (segment "Kitto Kurusa")
• Tugumi (1990)
• No Life King (1989)
• Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You (1988)
• Bu Su (1987)

References

1. "Biography". Ichikawa Jun Official Site (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 October 2010.
2. Variety Obit.

External links

• Ichikawa Jun at the Internet Movie Database
• Ichikawa Jun at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)