Miwako Ichikawa

Ghost Cat Anzu (2024)

Precocious tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she meets Anzu, a giant "ghost cat" and notorious layabout tasked with looking after her. Distrustful of her new guardian, Karin sabotages ...

Call Me Chihiro (2023)

An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way. ...

Just Remembering (2022)

A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love story inspired by a Jim Jarmusch masterpiece, set in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Will I Be Single Forever? (2021)

36-year-old bachelorette Mami achieved success with an essay she wrote 10 years ago. Mami has since lost her way, and hasn't been able to write a hit piece. Meanwhile Yukino, who leads an independent life, Ayaka who is a housewife, and Miho, who makes her ...

Around The Table (2021)

Haruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko and Aiko's boyfriend Sorao. One day, Yuko stays at Haruko's house to attend an art institute for the summer. Yuko is the daughter of Haruko's old ...

Drowning Love (2016)

Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa. He ...

Cats Don't Come When You Call (2016)

Mitsuo is a boxer who prefers dogs but ends up looking after two cats that his brother rescues. ...

Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment (2015)

A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide. ...

Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion (2015)

A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide. ...

Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic (2014)

The intertwined love story of four young people on Christmas night. ...

Chokolietta (2014)

Chiyoko's mother died when she was young. Since that time, Chiyoko has closed her heart to others. After her pet dies, Chiyoko feels loneliness. Her mother liked the Italian movie "La Strada." Due to movie study club senior, Masamune, Chiyoko is able to wa ...

Disconcerto (2014)

Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school classmate Haruhiko Gyoten. A big crisis then occurs for them. ...

First Class 2 (2014)

Set half a year after the first season of "First Class." Chinami Yoshinari (Erika Sawajiri) begins work as a fashion designer. In the high-end luxury field, big money is involved and Chinami Yoshinari is again trampled over by other women. She attempts to ...

Woman Lived Mori Mitsuko (2014)

Drama special "Mori Mitsuko wo Ikita Onna" follows the life of actress Mitsuko Mori and, in particular, when she 26 to 42 years old. Mitsuko Mori went through struggles to find happiness as a woman and an actress. ...

Saikō no Rikon: Special (2014)

It All Began When I Met You (2013)

Six love stories following the love lives of ten different people. ...

Rebirth (2011)

After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own, it is four years before the authorities catch up with her and the young child. ...

Time Lost, Time Found (2009)

A woman is forced to choose between her unborn child or medical treatment for re-occuring breast cancer. Shizuku, a talented surgeon, gets pregnant. In the past ten years of her marriage, she hasn't expected a baby because of breast cancer when she was yo ...

Nightmare Detective 2 (2008)

A story of the unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave victims psychologically devastated. ...

Sex Is No Laughing Matter (2008)

Mirume is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri, an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university. Yuri isn't your typical college professor, having a quirky sense of humor and unpredictable personality. When Yuri invites Murume to h ...

Into a Dream (2005)

Low-profile theatre troupe actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey home, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD. ...

Princess Raccoon (2005)

Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story. ...

In the Pool (2005)

A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress. ...

Mirrored Mind (2005)

An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise. ...

Kiss & Hurt (2004)

Shun Kosaka has a dream of becoming a novelist and lives in a byte at convenience stores at night. He happened to meet Natsuki, and his life began to change. However, they get involved in an incident related to the local mafia. ...

The Thirsty Flower: Four by Four Equals One (2004)

The title is "Thirsty Flower ~ four by four equal one ~", which is a short story of about 60 minutes with four women as the main characters. ...

Jeonju Digital Project 2004 (2004)

Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Yu Lik-wai ...

Karaoke Terror (2003)

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates! ...

Concent (2002)

In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When she sta ...

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou. ...

Another Heaven (2000)

A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspec ...