Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero / Doragon bôru sûpâ: Sûpâ hîrô (2022)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy
The Red Ribbon Army from Goku's past has returned with two new androids to challenge him and his friends.
Starring: Masako Nozawa, Toshio Furukawa, Ryô Horikawa, Hiroshi Kamiya, Mamoru Miyano, Miyu Irino, Kensuke Ôta, Ryōta Takeuchi
Director: Tetsuro Kodama
Child of Kamiari Month / Kamiarizuki no kodomo (2021)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
This is a story of a 12-year-old girl, Kanna, born as a descendant of the Gods. Her family has a mission to deliver offerings from all over Japan to the Gods' gathering in Izumo. Although Kanna's mother was to complete the mission, her passing prompted Kanna to finish the task, hoping she could reunite with her dead mother in the Gods' land at the end of her journey.
Starring: Aju Makita, Maaya Sakamoto, Miyu Irino, Riko Nagase, Chafûrin, Wataru Takagi
Director: Takana Shirai
Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below / Children Who Chase Lost Voices / Hoshi o ou kodomo (2011)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy
A coming of age story involving young love and a mysterious music, coming from a crystal radio left as a memento by an absent father, that leads a young heroine deep into a hidden world.
Starring: Hisako Kanemoto, Kazuhiko Inoue, Miyu Irino, Rina Hidaka, Fumiko Orikasa, Sumi Shimamoto, Junko Takeuchi
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Let Us Adorn the Morning of Farewells with Promised Flowers / Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms / Sayonara no asa ni yakusoku no hana o kazarô (2018)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy
An immortal girl and a normal boy meet and become friends, sharing a bond that lasts throughout the years.
Starring: Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Ai Kayano, Yûki Kaji, Miyuki Sawashiro, Yoshimasa Hosoya
Director: Mari Okada
Koe no katachi / A Silent Voice (2016)
Animation | Drama | Romance
The story revolves around Nishimiya Shoko, a grade school student who has impaired hearing. She transfers into a new school, where she is bullied by her classmates, especially Ishida Shouya. It gets to the point where she transfers to another school and as a result, Shouya is ostracized and bullied himself, with no friends to speak to and no plans for the future. Years later, he sets himself on a path to redemption.
Starring: Miyu Irino, Saori Hayami, Aoi Yuki, Kenshô Ono, Yûki Kaneko, Yui Ishikawa
Director: Naoko Yamada
Spirited Away / Sen and the Mysterious Disappearance of Chihiro / Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
From one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animated cinema comes the most acclaimed film of 2002 and Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature. Hayao Miyazaki's latest triumph, filled with astonishing animation and epic adventure, is a dazzling masterpiece for the ages. It's a "wonderfully welcoming work of art that's as funny and entertaining as it is brilliant, beautiful and deep" (Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal). SPIRITED AWAY is a wondrous fantasy about a young girl, Chihiro, trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world.
Starring: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tatsuya Gashûin
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Anohana the Movie: The Flower We Saw That Day / Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day – The Movie / Ano hi mita hana no namae wo bokutachi wa mada shiranai (2013)
Animation | Fantasy | Teen
She suddenly appeared before us one day… 6 of us…friends…we were always together. I believed that I wasn't afraid of anything. But, then it happened. I didn't mean to hurt her. I'll just tell her sorry tomorrow, that's what I thought. But… That "tomorrow" never came. So, time passed by and then one summer day, a miracle happened. Because of an accident during their childhood, 6 friends' hearts were closed shut, and they grew apart from one another. One summer day, their friend who passed away in the accident appears before them. But, she cannot remember the reason why she came back. The friends meet once more to figure out just what her "reason" was.
Starring: Miyu Irino, Ai Kayano, Haruka Tomatsu, Takahiro Sakurai, Saori Hayami, Takayuki Kondô
Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day / Ano hi mita hana no namae o bokutachi wa mada shiranai (TV Series 2011)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Teen
A story about grief and the acceptance of death. Six children formed a group that they called The Peace Busters. One day, an incident occurred which took the life of one of their friends, Meiko Honma. After this, Jinta Yadomi, leader of the group when they were kids, neglects high school and lives as a shut-in when he unexpectedly starts seeing the ghost of Meiko, who can only interact with him and no one else. The Peace Busters disbanded and the friends began distancing themselves far away from each other. Years later, Meiko has returned to ask Jinta to fulfill the forgotten wish she made as a kid.
Starring: Saori Hayami, Miyu Irino, Ai Kayano, Takayuki Kondô, Mitsuru Ogata, Takahiro Sakurai, Asami Seto, Mutsumi Tamura, Haruka Tomatsu, Aki Toyosaki
Creator: Mari Okada
The Garden of Words / Koto no ha no niwa (2013)
Animation | Romance
When Takao, a young high school student who dreams of becoming a shoe designer, decides to skip school one day in favor of sketching in a rainy garden, he has no idea how much his life will change when he encounters Yukino. Older, but perhaps not as much wiser, she seems adrift in the world. Despite the difference in their ages, they strike up an unusual relationship that unexpectedly continues and evolves, without planning, with random meetings that always occur in the same garden on each rainy day. But the rainy season is coming to a close, and there are so many things still left unsaid and undone between them.
Starring: Miyu Irino, Kana Hanazawa
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Mobile Suit Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer / Gekijouban Kidou senshi Gandamu 00: A wakening of the trailblazer (2010)
Action | Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi
2314 A.D. The new government of the Earth Sphere Federation is carrying out a program of peaceful reconciliation, and preparing for the appearance of the Innovators who will lead the human race into a new era. But the return of a derelict Jupiter exploration ship marks the beginning of an unprecedented crisis. What are the alien entities known as Extraterrestrial Living-metal Shape-shifters? What do they want? And will Setsuna F. Seiei and his fellow Gundam Meisters be able to answer these questions before humanity is wiped out? Featuring the popular heroes from the TV series in an all-new original story, and depicting the first appearance of alien life forms in the Gundam saga, this theatrical feature will amaze you with its breathtakingly animated spectacles of space combat and invite you to mind-expanding adventures throughout the solar system and beyond!
Starring: Miyu Irino, Hiroshi Kamiya, Ryo Katsuji, Mamoru Miyano, Yuichi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Yoshino
Director: Seiji Mizushima
