I am Ichihashi je Japanska krimi triler drama bazirana na istinitom događaju iz 2007. kada je Tatsuya Ichihashi ubio Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22-godišnju britanska profesorica Engleskoj u Japanu. Ichihashi je uspio pobjeći i netragom nestati u Aomori, udaljenom 550 kilometara od mjesta ubojstva. Saznavši da je još uvijek tražen od strane zakona, odlučio si ej sam odrezati usnicu kako bi se unakazio i promijenio svoj izgled, te je pobjegao u 1000 kilometara udaljen Shikoku. Tamo je odlučio otići na plastičnu operaciju i pokušao voditi normalan život. Ali progonjen krivnjom Ichihashi se na kraju sam predao te priznao da je ubio Lindsay, tvrdeći da ju je ugušio kada ju je pokušao spriječiti vrišti dok ju je silovao. Dana 21. srpnja 2011, Ichihashi osuđen je na doživotnu zatvorsku kaznu.
Režiju filma potpisuje Dean Fujioka koji je ujedno i scenarist filma, te je odigrao glavnu ulogu, tj. ulogu spomenutog ubojice. A sam scenarij je zapravo baziran na knjizi koju je napisao Tatsuya Ichihashi osobno. Osim Fujioka tu su još Takashi Nishina i Shin’ichi Tsuha. Japanska premijera filma I am Ichihashi: Journal of a Murderer će se održati 09. studenoga 2013.

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Tatsuya Ichihashi kills a British woman who taught English in Japan. Ichihashi escapes the police dragnet to Aomori, 550 kilometers away. Learning that he is wanted by the law, he cuts his own lips to change his features. Burdened by guilt, he continues to avoid the law enforcement. He travels 1000 kilometers to Shikoku to participate in a pilgrimage in hope of resurrecting his murder victim. Obviously it fails and he remains a fugitive. As if to escape his own guilt he changes his identity and has cosmetic surgery to further alter his features. He works at construction sites and when people get suspicious of him he flees to a far-off island in Okinawa where he relies on survival skills. One day, a man talks to the desperately desolate and hopeless Ichihashi. The man says he is a filmmaker who asks Ichihashi questions as part of his research for an upcoming movie. Journalistic questions become accusations. The encounter leaves Ichihashi feeling shaken and he finds himself at a ferry pier, though he doesn’t remember how he got there. He is fleeing to an island. But he is not sure what he is running from any longer. A police officer steps up to him, and Ichihashi identifies himself, “I am Ichihashi.”

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