A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers’ conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck. —Asianmediawiki
Jun Ichikawa (市川 準 Ichikawa Jun?, 25 November 1948 – 19 September 2008) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was first an award-winning director of television commercials before adding filmmaking to his creative activities.His most famous film outside of Japan was Tony Takitani, an adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage after suddenly collapsing at a restaurant, shortly before his latest film, Buy a Suit, was to premier at the Tokyo International Film Festival. —Wikipedia