Directing

Ichiro Kita

Born

1956-06-09 (70)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

14 titles

Known for

Yokohama Story poster
NR

25-year-old Nanami is managing an amateur band. She is broke, cannot pay her rent, and the singer has run off. Yoshinori is 65. His wife dies the day before his retirement. Having suddenly lost everything, he becomes desperate. After the two accidentally meet, Nanami moves into Yoshinori's place and invites a few other people to become their flatmates – the beginning of an extraordinary life together.

Yokohama Story

2013

Smiles in the Mirror poster
NR

Ryo works as a hairdresser at a successful beauty salon in Tokyo, Japan. He is popular at his workplace. A client, who works as a model, asks him to go out, but he says no. Due to turning down his client, Ryo is fired from his job. Making things worse, a fire breaks out at his apartment. Ryo then decides to go back to his hometown and work there. One day, he goes to the hospital to cut a girl's hair. After her haircut, the girl smiles and this changes Ryo.

Smiles in the Mirror

The Little Angel of Star Sand Island: Mermaid Smile poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Little Angel of Star Sand Island: Mermaid Smile

2010

Bad Moon Rising poster
NR

Middle-aged Keiji gets tired of taking care of his sick mother. Making things worse, the factory where he works goes bankrupt. Keiji decides to kill his mother. He puts her body into his car drives to his hometown. On the way, he meets Towako who has collapsed along a mountain path. Towako has lost her memory and she is trying to find her family. Keiji sees his mother through Towako. He lets Towako in his car and they keep driving. (Source: AsianWiki)

Bad Moon Rising

2015

Always Smiling Above the Sea poster
NR

17-year-old high school student and basketball player Migiwa has a secret crush on Riku. After lying about being able to surf, she loses a surfboard while practicing and sets off by bike along the Shonan coast to find it, meeting new people and growing along the way.

Always Smiling Above the Sea

2009

Life on the Longboard 2nd Wave poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Life on the Longboard 2nd Wave

2019

Behind the camera

Yokohama Story poster
NR

25-year-old Nanami is managing an amateur band. She is broke, cannot pay her rent, and the singer has run off. Yoshinori is 65. His wife dies the day before his retirement. Having suddenly lost everything, he becomes desperate. After the two accidentally meet, Nanami moves into Yoshinori's place and invites a few other people to become their flatmates – the beginning of an extraordinary life together.

Yokohama Story

2013

Yokohama Story poster
NR

25-year-old Nanami is managing an amateur band. She is broke, cannot pay her rent, and the singer has run off. Yoshinori is 65. His wife dies the day before his retirement. Having suddenly lost everything, he becomes desperate. After the two accidentally meet, Nanami moves into Yoshinori's place and invites a few other people to become their flatmates – the beginning of an extraordinary life together.

Yokohama Story

2013

Yokohama Story poster
NR

25-year-old Nanami is managing an amateur band. She is broke, cannot pay her rent, and the singer has run off. Yoshinori is 65. His wife dies the day before his retirement. Having suddenly lost everything, he becomes desperate. After the two accidentally meet, Nanami moves into Yoshinori's place and invites a few other people to become their flatmates – the beginning of an extraordinary life together.

Yokohama Story

2013

Smiles in the Mirror poster
NR

Ryo works as a hairdresser at a successful beauty salon in Tokyo, Japan. He is popular at his workplace. A client, who works as a model, asks him to go out, but he says no. Due to turning down his client, Ryo is fired from his job. Making things worse, a fire breaks out at his apartment. Ryo then decides to go back to his hometown and work there. One day, he goes to the hospital to cut a girl's hair. After her haircut, the girl smiles and this changes Ryo.

Smiles in the Mirror

Smiles in the Mirror poster
NR

Ryo works as a hairdresser at a successful beauty salon in Tokyo, Japan. He is popular at his workplace. A client, who works as a model, asks him to go out, but he says no. Due to turning down his client, Ryo is fired from his job. Making things worse, a fire breaks out at his apartment. Ryo then decides to go back to his hometown and work there. One day, he goes to the hospital to cut a girl's hair. After her haircut, the girl smiles and this changes Ryo.

Smiles in the Mirror

The Little Angel of Star Sand Island: Mermaid Smile poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Little Angel of Star Sand Island: Mermaid Smile

2010

Bad Moon Rising poster
NR

Middle-aged Keiji gets tired of taking care of his sick mother. Making things worse, the factory where he works goes bankrupt. Keiji decides to kill his mother. He puts her body into his car drives to his hometown. On the way, he meets Towako who has collapsed along a mountain path. Towako has lost her memory and she is trying to find her family. Keiji sees his mother through Towako. He lets Towako in his car and they keep driving. (Source: AsianWiki)

Bad Moon Rising

2015

Always Smiling Above the Sea poster
NR

17-year-old high school student and basketball player Migiwa has a secret crush on Riku. After lying about being able to surf, she loses a surfboard while practicing and sets off by bike along the Shonan coast to find it, meeting new people and growing along the way.

Always Smiling Above the Sea

2009

Always Smiling Above the Sea poster
NR

17-year-old high school student and basketball player Migiwa has a secret crush on Riku. After lying about being able to surf, she loses a surfboard while practicing and sets off by bike along the Shonan coast to find it, meeting new people and growing along the way.

Always Smiling Above the Sea

2009

Life on the Longboard 2nd Wave poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Life on the Longboard 2nd Wave

2019

Life on the Longboard 2nd Wave poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Life on the Longboard 2nd Wave

2019

Life on the Longboard poster
8.0

A depressed middle-aged man takes up surfing after he retires.

Life on the Longboard

2005

Life on the Longboard poster
8.0

A depressed middle-aged man takes up surfing after he retires.

Life on the Longboard

2005

Share house poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Share house

2011