Ichigo Chips

Overview

Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading into a downward spiral as she can't reinvent the success of her 12 year old hit the Cherry Road. Now in her early 30's she's become quite fond of alcohol and egoism to some annoyance of her loyal manager Tomoko (Kajiwara), who isn't willing to leave her side even though the financial strains of her client are also becoming her personal burdens. Ichigo still gets greeted by her female fans and willingly signs autographs, but getting praised for work that she's done over a decade ago doesn't digest as smoothly as one would assume. Her on and off man, who happens to also be her editor steers toward the off days more than usual as he also grows tired of Ichigo's uninspired ways. But when the going gets tough, Ichigo heads down to a transvestite bar where she's more than welcomed with words of wisdom and a few hard drinks.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 19, 2005

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Amuse Soft Entertainment

Cast

Aki Kajiwara,Yoshino Kimura,Masahiro Komoto,Manabu Oshio,Maki Carrousel,Renji Ishibashi,Sansei Shiomi,Mantaro Koichi,Miho Miyazawa

Director

Tsutomu Takahashi,Shun Nakahara

Writer

Aki Kajiwara,Miho Miyazawa

Cinematography

Hiro'o Yanagida

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0468765