Call Me Chihiro / Chihirosan (2023)
Drama
An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.
Starring: Kasumi Arimura, Hana Toyoshima, Tetta Shimada, Van, Ryûya Wakaba, Yui Sakuma, Itsuki Nagasawa
Director: Rikiya Imaizumi
Phases of the Moon / Tsuki no michikake (2022)
Drama | Romance
Kei Osanai enjoys a peaceful and happy life with his wife Kozue and daughter Ruri, but his wife and daughter die in an accident. Kei's life suddenly changes. One day, a man named Akihiko Misumi visits Kei and tells him that on the day Kozue and Ruri died, Ruri, who was a complete stranger to him, was coming to see him. Akihiko tells him about a woman named Ruri Masaki, who he once loved. These people, who don't seem related, connect under the name of love.
Starring: Yô Ôizumi, Kasumi Arimura, Ren Meguro, Ko Shibasaki, Kei Tanaka, Sairi Itô
Director: Ryûichi Hiroki
Prior Convictions / Zenkamono (2022)
Crime | Drama
Kaya has worked as a probation officer for 3 years, she finds her job rewarding. But one client, Makoto, an ex-murderer, suddenly disappears around the time that the police are investigating a series of murders committed by a mystery man.
Starring: Kasumi Arimura, Gô Morita, Hayato Isomura, Ryûya Wakaba, Makita Sports, Shizuka Ishibashi
Director: Yoshiyuki Kishi
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning / Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part II – The Beginning / Rurôni Kenshin: Sai shûshô – The Beginning (2021)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Before becoming a protector, Kenshin is a fearsome assassin known as Battosai, but his story changes when he meets the gentle Tomoe Yukishiro.
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Kasumi Arimura, Issey Takahashi, Nijirô Murakami, Masanobu Andô, Kazuki Kitamura, Yôsuke Eguchi
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet / I Fell in Love Like a Flower Bouquet / Hanataba Mitaina Koi O Shita (2021)
Romance
Two people meet each other at a Tokyo train station and start a love affair.
Starring: Masaki Suda, Kasumi Arimura, Joe Odagiri, Keiko Toda, Ryô Iwamatsu, Kaoru Kobayashi
Director: Nobuhiro Doi
Fortuna's Eye / Forutuna no Hitomi (2019)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Shinichiro is lonely for two reasons. He lost his family in an accident when he was younger. He also has an unusual and morbid ability to see through and beyond the corporal bodies of those who are about to die. His life looks to be on the upswing when he meets the cute Aoi at a shop one day. They are well on the way to happiness together when the man begins seeing through the woman.
Starring: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Kasumi Arimura, Jun Shison, Daigo Naito, Airi Matsui, Yukiya Kitamura, Yuki Saitô, Saburô Tokitô
Director: Takahiro Miki
Our Departures / Kazoku Iro: Railways Watashitachi no Shuppatsu (2018)
Drama | Family
Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.
Starring: Kasumi Arimura, Jun Kunimura, Nanami Sakuraba, Ryusei Kiyama, Hôka Kinoshita, Mariko Tsutsui, Itsuji Itao, Munetaka Aoki, Kenji Mizuhashi
Director: Yasuhiro Yoshida
Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Café Funiculi Funicula / Kohi ga Samenai Uchi Ni (2018)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Kazu works for family at a café. There is a belief that occupying a specific table seat at a table allows the occupant to travel back in time. While the traveller can choose the destination he has to abide by certain rules. Additionally, one's time travelling is limited to the period by which the coffee gets cold.
Starring: Kasumi Arimura, Kentarô Itô, Haru, Kento Hayashi, Motoki Fukam
Director: Ayuko Tsukahara
Narratage / Naratâju (2017)
Drama | Romance
Izumi is a sophomore university student when she hears from her former high school teacher and mentor Takashi. They were both involved in the school drama club. She liked him. He liked her. Takashi asks Izumi to return to the school and assist with a performance. Will the feelings be rekindled?
Starring: Jun Matsumoto, Kasumi Arimura, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Ayaka Ohnishi, Yûtarô Furutachi, Miki Kamioka, Ryusuke Komakine, Daichi Kaneko, Mikako Ichikawa, Kôji Seto
Director: Isao Yukisada
Sekigahara (2017)
History | War
A depiction of Japan's 17th Century Battle of Sekigahara where the Army of the East takes up arms against the Army of the West.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Kasumi Arimura, Kôji Yakusho
Director: Masato Harada
March Comes in Like a Lion 2 / 3-gatsu no raion kouhen / 3-gatsu no Lion: Part 2 (2017)
Drama
A young professional shogi player meets three sisters who change his life.
Starring: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Kasumi Arimura, Kana Kurashina, Shôta Sometani, Kaya Kiyohara
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
March Comes in Like a Lion / 3-gatsu no raion zenpen / 3-gatsu no Lion: Part 1 (2017)
Drama
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger sister died in an traffic accident when he was little. One day, Rei Kiriyama meets three sisters who are his neighbors. The three sisters are Akari Kawamoto, Hinata Kawamoto and Momo Kawamoto. This is his first meeting with someone outside of the shogi world in many years. Having meals with the Kawamoto family brings warm feelings to Rei Kiriyama. As Rei Kiriyama continues his shogi career, his interactions with his neighbors allows him to grow as a shogi player and as a person.
Starring: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Kasumi Arimura, Kaya Kiyohara, Kana Kurashina
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
Someone / Somebody / Nanimono (2016)
Drama
Looking for jobs, five young friends regularly meet at one's apartment. Judging and gauging one another by their ability to land job pits the friends as also competitors. When one of the friends finds work the remaining four feel abandoned and the relationships are not the same anymore.
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Masaki Suda, Kasumi Arimura, Fumi Nikaidô, Masaki Okada, Takayuki Yamada
Director: Daisuke Miura
I Am a Hero / Aiamuahiro (2016)
Action | Horror
One day, after returning from work late in the evening, Hideo witnesses a traffic accident in which a car crashes into a nearby pedestrian, killing the victim instantly. However, despite severe injuries including a broken neck, the victim's body stands up and walks away. Hideo questions whether this is another one of his hallucinations, but strange events begin happening around him.
Starring: Yô Ôizumi, Kasumi Arimura, Masami Nagasawa, Hisashi Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Okada, Nana Katase
Director: Shinsuke Sato
The Town Where Only I Am Missing / Bokudake ga inai machi (2016)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Struggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kasumi Arimura, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Yuriko Ishida, Tetta Sugimoto
Director: Yûichirô Hirakawa
Flying Colors / Biri Gal / Biri gyaru (2015)
Drama
Sayaka Kudo is a gyaru who wears miniskirts and dyes her hair blonde. Although she is a 2nd year senior high school student, she is on par academically with 4th grade elementary school students. She frequently transfers between school because she is unable to make friends, and was once suspended for being caught with cigarettes. To prepare her for her university entrance examination, her mother decides to send her to Seiho Cram School. However, when the school director, Yoshitaka Tsubota, hears about Sayaka's academic problem, he makes it his personal achievement to help her enter the university of her choice, Keio University, a prestigious university that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan. After her father labels her an "air-head", Sayaka became determined to study hard to prove her father wrong. Over the course of the summer holidays of her second year through to the exams at the end of her third year in senior high school, Sayaka studies extremely hard. She even removes her blond hair dye and cuts her hair to show her resolve. Her results progressively improves and her academic deviation value increases tremendously from 30 to 70 in this short span of time.
Starring: Kasumi Arimura, Atsushi Itô, Shûhei Nomura
Director: Nobuhiro Doi
Heartbroken Chocolatier / Shitsuren Chocolatier (TV Series 2014- )
Romance
Koyurugi Sota looks up to and adores his senior in school, Takahashi Saeko. With his one-sided love for her, he decides to leave for Paris to learn the art of making chocolates, as she loves chocolates. After returning from Paris, Sota dreams of creating the perfect chocolate to present to Saeko, and that it will make Saeko fall madly in love with him. Saeko, who is already married, is actually quite the airhead, but her actions seem to lead Sota on. Does Saeko not know that Sota is madly in love with her? Or is she just playing with his feelings?
Starring: Osamu Naitô, Jun Matsumoto, Satomi Ishihara, Asami Mizukawa, Kiko Mizuhara, Junpei Mizobata, Kasumi Arimura, Shigeaki Katô, Ryûta Satô, Naoto Takenaka, Hidekazu Mashima
Creator: Naoko Adachi, Miyako Koshikawa
Strobe Edge / Sutorobo ejji (2015)
Comedy
15-year-old Ninako Kinoshita has never been in love until an encounter on the train with her school's most popular boy, the quiet Ren Ichinose. As she grows closer to Ren, she falls in love with him, but must learn to cope with the unfortunate fact that Ren already has a longtime girlfriend.
Starring: Sôta Fukushi, Kasumi Arimura, Yûki Yamada, Arisa Satô, Jingi Irie, Yuina Kuroshima
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
When Marnie Was There / Omoide no Mânî (2014)
Animation | Drama
A young girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with flowing blonde hair. As the friendship unravels it is possible that Marnie has closer ties to the protagonist than we might expect.
Starring: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Susumu Terajima, Toshie Negishi, Ryôko Moriyama
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Jossy's / Joshîzu (2014)
Action
Five women are summoned to battle evil. They each represent a color; red, blue, green, yellow and navy. Together, they must learn to work together as a team to save the world.
Starring: Mirei Kiritani, Mina Fujii, Mitsuki Takahata, Kasumi Arimura, Mizuki Yamamoto, Jirô Satô
Director: Yûichi Fukuda
