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CriticCrunch has 6 Ai Hashimoto titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile.
2019
Drama
Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.
Dir. Tetsuya Nakashima · With Takako Matsu, Masaki Okada, Yoshino Kimura
Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.
Dir. Junichi Mori · With Ai Hashimoto, Takahiro Miura, Mayu Matsuoka
Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.
Dir. Junichi Mori · With Ai Hashimoto, Takahiro Miura, Mayu Matsuoka
Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the '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.
Dir. Takashi Yamazaki · With Shota Sometani, Sadao Abe, Eri Fukatsu
Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.
Dir. Takashi Yamazaki · With Shota Sometani, Ai Hashimoto, Sadao Abe
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.
Dir. Tetsuya Nakashima · With Koji Yakusho, Nana Komatsu, Hiroya Shimizu
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