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How To Become Myself

ICHIKAWA Jun

Japan2007 97min 35mm color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

uri secretly admires Kanako, who is popular in their class. Juri is like this even at home, where she acts the part of an ideal daughter for her parents because she wants them to stop fighting every day and be loving to each other again. Meanwhile, for no apparent reason, Kanako finds her position in class suddenly plummeting from that of the popular girl to that of the one everybody ignores.

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ICHIKAWA Jun

Born in Tokyo, 1948. A prominent hit maker of TV commercials, he earned the Grand Prize at the Cannes International Advertising Festival in 1985. His first film is "BU+SU" produced in 1987. He continues to produce daring and unhackneyed films, depicting realistic humanity with his unique tranquil style.