Another / Anazâ (2012)
Horror | Mystery
After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara turns to a mysterious girl who holds the key to the dark mystery.
Starring: Kento Yamazaki, Ai Hashimoto, Ai Katô, Yoshihiko Hakamada
Director: Takeshi Furusawa
To the Solitary Me Who Loved You / To Me, the One Who Loved You / Kimi o Aishita Hitori no Boku e (2022)
Animation | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
In a universe of parallel worlds, two lovers search for a place to belong.
Starring: Hio Miyazawa, Aju Makita, Ai Hashimoto, Mutsumi Tamura, Kenji Hamada, Mie Sonozaki
Director: Kenichi Kasai
To Every You I've Loved Before / Boku ga Aishita Subete no Kimi e (2022)
Animation | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
In a universe of parallel worlds, a love story takes place.
Starring: Hio Miyazawa, Ai Hashimoto, Aju Makita, Mutsumi Tamura, Kenji Hamada, Mie Sonozaki
Director: Jun Matsumoto
Farewell: Comedy of Life Begins with A Lie / Guddobai: Uso kara Hajimaru Jinsei Kigeki (2020)
Comedy
It is the period following World War II and the Americans have invaded and occupied Japan. Shuji is an editor for a magazine about literature and culture. He is a gigolo and surrounds himself with easy women who suffer from low self-esteem. Shuji does not respect the women and decides to dump them, but easier said than done. His solution? Pretend he is married, complete with a false wife, in order to be rid of the other women.
Starring: Yô Ôizumi, Eiko Koike, Asami Mizukawa, Ai Hashimoto, Tamaki Ogawa, Tae Kimura, Sarutoki Minagawa
Director: Izuru Narushima
It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up / Koko wa taikutsu mukae ni kite (2018)
Drama | Romance
Two girls dream of the same man. One remained in their hometown, went with Shiina and wants to revisit the happy times with him again. The other moved away, returned to move back in with her parents and establishes contact with Shiina and other friends. It may be that either a rivalry or a triangle is in the offing.
Starring: Ai Hashimoto, Mugi Kadowaki, Ryô Narita
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
Oz Land / Ozu Rando: Egao no Maho Oshiemasu (2018)
Adventure
Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected to the business network. The new work is out in the country and there is not much else to do or places to go. The go-to employee is one Yoshiko. Kurumi wants to be successful and valued and is eager to learn from Yoshiko. All is not as it seems on the surface however.
Starring: Haru, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Ai Hashimoto, Amane Okayama, Tomoya Nakamura, Mari Hamada
Director: Takafumi Hatano
A Beautiful Star / Utsukushii hoshi (2017)
Drama
It portrays a family on Earth who come to believe that they are actually from other planets all of a sudden. They try so hard to save the endangered planet Earth but things get crazy on the way.
Starring: Lily Franky, Kazuya Kamenashi, Tomoko Nakajima, Ai Hashimoto
Director: Daihachi Yoshida
Parks / Pâkusu (2017)
Drama | Family
University student Jun has a lot of free time on her hands. She encounters Haru who is in high school and looks a woman she knew in her past. They meet Tokio, who is the grandson of the woman she knew, and learn that the person is dead. They come across media of the woman's work.
Starring: Ai Hashimoto, Mei Nagano, Shôta Sometani, Shizuka Ishibashi
Director: Natsuki Seta
The Old Capital / Koto (2016)
Drama
Chieko Sanda has operated a dry goods store in Kyoto for the past 20 years. Her family has owned the store for generations. Chieko is conflicted on whether her daughter Mai will take over her position with the changing of times.
Starring: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Ai Hashimoto, Riko Narumi, Reina Aoi, Anna Aoi, Shôno Hayama, Asahi Kurizuka, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Eiji Okuda
Director: Yûki Saitô
The Shell Collector / Sheru Korekuta (2016)
Drama | Fantasy
A blind man works as a conchology scholar. He became attracted to the beauty and mystery of shells and then devoted himself to the field of conchology. He is now a world-renowned expert in the study of shells. The scholar lives separately from his wife and child. He lives a peaceful, but solitary existence picking shells alone on a remote island in Okinawa. One day, a female painter, Izumi, appears in front of the blind scholar. The woman suffers from a rare disease. The scholar is able to treat the woman's disease by using poisons from certain shells. Word of the miraculous treatment spreads and more people gather on Koto Island to receive treatment. The scholar's peaceful days are thrown into chaos.
Starring: Lily Franky, Shinobu Terajima, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Ai Hashimoto, Akira Fukuhara, Masahiro Arakaki
Director: Yoshifumi Tsubota
The Inerasable / Zange: Sunde wa ikenai heya (2015)
Horror
I is a successful writer of mystery-novels. One day she receives a letter from Kobu, a young student who recently moved into an apartment near her university. At night she hear strange noises and scary voices that got her afraid. She pleads I to help her. As a mystery-writer, I smells the ultimate story and decides to help Kobu. Together they uncover the truth about the people who lived in Kobu's apartment before. And it is a dark story full of anger, hatred, murder and suicide.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Ai Hashimoto, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Ken'ichi Takitô
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Parasyte: Part 2 / Kiseijuu: Kanketsuhen (2015)
Horror | Sci-Fi
The humanity is suffering from murders all over the globe, called Mincemeat murders. High school student, Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth.
Starring: Shôta Sometani, Ai Hashimoto, Sadao Abe, Eri Fukatsu, Masahiro Higashide, Nao Ômori, Pierre Taki
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Little Forest: Summer & Autumn / Ritoru Foresuto Natsu Hen・Aki Hen (2014)
Drama
Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto) lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients
Starring: Ai Hashimoto, Takahiro Miura, Mayu Matsuoka, Yôichi Nukumizu, Karen Kirishima
Director: Jun'ichi Mori
Little Forest: Winter & Spring / Ritoru Foresuto Fuyu Hen・Haru Hen (2015)
Drama
Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto) lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients.
Starring: Ai Hashimoto, Takahiro Miura, Mayu Matsuoka, Yôichi Nukumizu, Karen Kirishima
Director: Jun'ichi Mori
Parasyte: Part 1 / Kiseijû: Part 1 (2014)
Horror | Sci-Fi
The humanity is suffering from murders all over the globe, called "Mincemeat murders". High school student, Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth.
Starring: Shôta Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Ai Hashimoto, Kazuki Kitamura, Masahiro Higashide, Tadanobu Asano, Miko Yoki, Jun Kunimura, Hirofumi Arai, Pierre Taki
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
The World of Kanako / Kawaki (2014)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Kanako, a beautiful girl and one of the best students at school, goes missing with all the belongings left behind in her room. Her father Akikazu is now asked by his ex-wife to look for their daughter. He starts a desperate search of Kanako using any means, in the hope of getting his "ideal" family back in place despite the fact that the very reason of the family breakup was because of his problematic personality and behaviors. Following tracks of her past and present and talking to her "friends," he starts to get to know his daughter whom he never knew or didn't even attempt to know. When Akikazu is led to one clue, he realizes the world Kanako was facing beyond his imagination… Can the father find his daughter, and get back his perfect happy family he has dreamed of after all these years?
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Nana Komatsu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroya Shimizu, Fumi Nikaidô, Ai Hashimoto, Aoi Morikawa
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Home: The House Imp / Home: Itoshi no Zashiki Warashi (2012)
Drama | Family | Fantasy
A middle-aged father cannot find his place at work or home. He is transferred to Iwate from Tokyo. The father takes his wife, two kids and mother with him. They settle down in a 100-year-old house. There in the countryside they meet Zasikiwarasi and begin to unite together as a family.
Starring: Yutaka Mizutani, Narumi Yasuda, Ai Hashimoto, Tatsuomi Hamada, Mitsuko Kusabue
Director: Seiji Izumi
Kirishima, bukatsu yamerutteyo / The Kirishima Thing (2012)
Drama
"Kirishima, Bukatsu Yamerutteyo" tells the story of two high school students who crosses social boundaries between the elite and lower class at their school. Ryoya Maeda, from the lower class, is a member of the film club, while Hiroki Kikuchi, from the elite class, is a non-participating member of the high school baseball team.
Starring: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Ai Hashimoto, Suzuka Ohgo
Director: Daihachi Yoshida
Sadako / Sadako 3D / Ringu 5 (2012)
Horror
A mysterious, white-clad man is seen dropping a long-haired woman into a well. The well is full of women, all with long hair, all dressed in night-dresses. Thirteen years after the original film, two mysterious suicides- one at a bus station, and the other involving a schoolgirl prompt Detective Koiso and his partner to investigate a string of mysterious deaths. The deaths involve video played on devices, with a voice saying "You're not the one", just before the deaths.
Starring: Satomi Ishihara, Kôji Seto, Yûsuke Yamamoto, Ryôsei Tayama, Ai Hashimoto
Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa
