Miwako Ichikawa

Acting

Miwako Ichikawa

Born 1976-03-19 · Ota, Tokyo, Japan

Born in Tokyo in 1976 Ichikawa Miwako first career film was 2000's Another Heaven, which made her screen debut in the same year as her younger sister Mikako. Miwako, however, had already released a 1999 album called Pin-up Girl. Miwako has also maintained an active fashion modelling career since 1991 and appeared in multiple Japanese magazines. She notably was in All About Lily Chou Chou where Aoi Yu got her start. Ichikawa is signed to the November Agency.

Acting credits

All About Lily Chou-Chou poster
7.5

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.

All About Lily Chou-Chou

2001

Call Me Chihiro poster
7.2

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.

Call Me Chihiro

2023

Ghost Cat Anzu poster
6.9

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 Anzu's odd jobs for the townsfolk and befriends the eccentric local forest spirits. In an effort to win Karin over, Anzu accidentally makes a deal with the devil, and all Hell breaks loose.

Ghost Cat Anzu

2024

Rebirth poster
7.6

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.

Rebirth

2011

Drowning Love poster
6.1

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 is the successor of the Hasegawa family. His family is wealthy and is respected in the area. Natsume Mochizuki and Koichiro Hasegawa become attracted to each other, but something changes their fate.

Drowning Love

2016

Sex Is No Laughing Matter poster
5.9

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 her studio, she playfully seduces the still naive 19 year old student. Things become more complicated when Mirume discovers that Yuri is married to a much older man....

Sex Is No Laughing Matter

2008

Mirrored Mind poster
6.9

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

Mirrored Mind

2005

Just Remembering poster
6.8

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.

Just Remembering

2022

Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment poster
6.8

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 2: Judgment

2015

Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion poster
7.1

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

Nightmare Detective 2 poster
6.0

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

Nightmare Detective 2

2008

Saikō no Rikon: Special poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Saikō no Rikon: Special

2014

Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic poster
5.5

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

Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic

2014

Karaoke Terror poster
5.7

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!

Karaoke Terror

2003

Another Heaven poster
6.0

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 suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?

Another Heaven

2000

Cats Don't Come When You Call poster
5.8

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

Cats Don't Come When You Call

2016

Disconcerto poster
6.4

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.

Disconcerto

2014

Around The Table poster
6.8

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 friend Tomoyo. They haven't spoken for many years prior to Tomoyo reaching out to Haruko to ask if her daughter could stay with her for the summer. Haruko and Tomoyo have an uncomfortable past.

Around The Table

2021

Trophy poster
NR

The story follows So-hee, a 14-year-old Zainichi Korean girl. She goes to a Korean school and devotes herself to Korean traditional dance as her school club activities. One day, at an exchange event with a Japanese school, she befriends Mirai, a Japanese girl who shares her love of K-pop. Through this encounter, So-hee gradually begins to connect with the world beyond her own. As their friendship deepens, the two decide to sell unused items from So-hee's home on a flea market app to earn money for their favorite K-pop idols live tickets. One item fetches an unexpectedly high price-a North Korean CD, which is So-hee's father's. Sanju, the father, is the principal of a Korean elementary school. Emboldened by this success, So-hee and Mirai take it a step further, eventually selling even the medal that Sanju had been awarded by his homeland, North Korea.

Trophy

2026

It All Began When I Met You poster
7.1

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

It All Began When I Met You

2013

Jeonju Digital Project 2004 poster
3.0

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

Jeonju Digital Project 2004

2004

In the Pool poster
7.7

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

In the Pool

2005

Woman Lived Mori Mitsuko poster
7.0

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.

Woman Lived Mori Mitsuko

2014

Chokolietta poster
6.4

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 watch the Italian movie "La Strada," which her mother liked. Chiyoko soon acts in a movie directed by Masamune.

Chokolietta

2014