How to Become Myself (2007)

Profile

• Movie: How to Become Myself
• Romaji: Ashita no watashi no tsukurikata
• Japanese: あしたの私のつくり方
• Director: Jun Ichikawa
• Writer: Madoka Hosotani (screenplay), Kaori Mado (story)
• Producer:
• Cinematographer Kazuhiro Suzuki
• Release Date: April 28, 2007
• Runtime: 97 Minutes
• Studio: Nikkatsu
• Distributor: Nikkatsu
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

Juri 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.

Cast

• Riko Narumi – Juri Oshima
• Atsuko Maeda – Hinako Hanada
• Mariko Ishihara – Satsuki Oshima
• Yoshizumi Ishihara – Masashi Sugitani
• Sousuke Takaoka – Hiroyuki Tamura
• Yoshimasa Kondo – Kenichi Furugaki
• Kaoru Okunuki – Hinako’s mother
• Tomorowo Taguchi – Koji Ueshima
• Dori Sakurada
• Elisa Yanagi
• Tokio Emoto
• Minami Minegishi – Hinako Hanada’s classmate
• Ayaka Ikezawa