Hold Me Back / Watashi wo kuitomete (2020)
Drama
Love on the edge, which can't get any closer than 10cm: Mitsuko, 31, who is getting used to a solo life and has a counselor named "A" in her brain, falls in love with a young man.
Starring: Non, Kento Hayashi, Asami Usuda, Takuya Wakabayashi, Tomoya Maeno, Maho Yamada, Hairi Katagiri
Director: Akiko Ôku
Tremble All You Want / Katte ni furuetero (2017)
Drama
Virgin twenty-something girl is neat, talented and professional, although almost too much of all these. She is an office lady who still romanticizes a school-mate, but has the opportunity to move on and forward with a man at an after-work get-together. She hesitates yearning for the man she loved at school and happens to meet him again soon enough. Will she choose option A, B or something else we can call C?
Starring: Mayu Matsuoka, Daichi Watanabe, Anna Ishibashi, Takumi Kitamura, Kanji Furutachi, Hairi Katagiri
Director: Akiko Ohku
Our Meal For Tomorrow / Bokura no gohan wa ashita de matteru (2017)
Drama | Romance
Ryota and Koharu are high school students. Ryota is indifferent to people and says very little. Koharu is not afraid of to speak her mind and she has a bright personality. Since a game of rice bag jump, they begin to date. They date at a fast-food restaurant, realize they love each other at a family restaurant and finally swear their love on a dining table with white rice.
Starring: Yûto Nakajima, Yûko Araki, Karen Miyama, Amane Okayama, Hairi Katagiri, Chieko Matsubara
Director: Masahide Ichii
A Farewell to Jinu / Jinu yo saraba Kamuroba mura e (2015)
Comedy
Former bank clerk Takeharu thought he was strange when he moved to a remote village in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region after developing an inexplicable "money allergy." However as he attempts to live a peaceful rural life without currency, Kamuroba village's bizarre characters draw him out of his shell in this increasingly surreal madcap comedy. Then a nearby town leader attempts to overthrow the handyman bus driver mayor, Takeharu must prove his attachment to Kamuroba and its people.
Starring: Ryûhei Matsuda, Sadao Abe, Takako Matsu, Fumi Nikaidô, Toshiyuki Nishida, Hairi Katagiri, Yûko Nakamura
Director: Suzuki Matsuo
A Stitch of Life / Tsukuroi tatsu hito (2015)
Drama
Ichie, a dressmaker who has inherited her grandmother's shop. Like her grandmother, Ichie makes and repairs each dress by hand, avoiding mass production or creating a brand name. Through her interactions with her clients, Ichie reminisces about the events in her past.
Starring: Miki Nakatani, Takahiro Mizushima, Hairi Katagiri, Haru Kuroki, Hana Sugisaki, Masatô Ibu
Director: Yukiko Mishima
Oh Brother, Oh Sister! / Onodera no otôto, Onodera no ane (2014)
Comedy
Since their parents died at an early age, Susumu (Osamu Mukai) and Yoriko (Hairi Katagiri) have lived together. Susumu is now 33-years-old and Yoriko is 40-years-old. Both of them have yet to marry. They are like most siblings and they rely on each other. One day, Susumu and Yoriko receive a letter that is sent to the wrong address.
Starring: Osamu Mukai, Hairi Katagiri
Director: Masafumi Nishida
Kamome Diner / Kamome shokudô (2006)
Comedy | Drama
Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her, and meets Masako, a formal and ethereal middle-aged woman whose luggage has gone missing. The three women work in the diner, interact, and serve customers. A somewhat brusque man teaches Sachie to make delicious coffee, then he returns under other circumstances. Three neighborhood women inspect the empty diner every day; will anything bring them inside? We learn why Sachie serves rice balls; but why Finland?
Starring: Satomi Kobayashi, Hairi Katagiri, Masako Motai, Jarkko Niemi, Tarja Markus, Markku Peltola
Director: Naoko Ogigami
