Here in the U.S., the strange story of murderer Tetsuya Ichihashi didn’t get any ink – as far as I can tell – but it was evidently a gigantic news story in the UK and Japan, so perhaps our friends over on that side of the pond will recognize the man’s name. In any case, there’s a chance the whole world will know who he is and what he did when the nasty story of his crime, and the subsequent two-year-long investigation, is made into a film next year.
Titled I AM ICHIHASHI, the movie will be based on the memoirs of Ichihashi, who in 2007 raped and murdered British schoolteacher Lindsay Hawker. He spent two and a half years on the run from cops after they discovered her body buried in sand in a tub on his apartment balcony; he even got plastic surgery to effectively conceal his appearance before being being captured in November of 2009.
Model-actor Dean Fujioka will play the lead role as well as direct the film (its full title is I AM ICHIHASHI – TAIYO SARERU MADE, or, “The Time Until I was Captured”). Shooting on the film begins in January, with a late 2012 being eyed.
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