# How to Become Myself (2007)

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**Original title**: *あしたの私のつくり方*
**Runtime**: 97 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Jun Ichikawa
**Written by**: Kaori Mado, Madoka Hosotani
**Starring**: Riko Narumi, Atsuko Maeda, Mariko Ishihara, Yoshizumi Ishihara, Yoshimasa Kondo, Kaoru Okunuki

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Mean Girls if Bergman directed. A young girl loses herself in the shifting quicksand of elementary-school social life. Ichikawa’s understated eye for detail quietly elevates the familiar scenario.

**Mood tags**: outsider, tender

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