Sairi Ito’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Sairi Ito has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
Recurring themes

Fireworks
2017
Animation · Romance

A Whisker Away
2020
Animation · Drama

Beautiful Creatures
2013
Fantasy · Drama

The Boy and the Heron
2023
Animation · Fantasy

Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022
Drama · Fantasy

Materialists
2025
Romance · Drama

Summer of 85
2020
Romance · Drama

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
2017
Drama · Romance

Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of Japan, and so Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.
Dir. Makoto Shinkai · With Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu

First-year high schooler Midori Asakusa loves anime so much, she insists that "concept is everything" in animation. While she spends her time doodling endless ideas and settings in her sketchbook, she hasn't taken the first step to creating anime, insisting that she can't do it alone. After Asakusa's money-loving best friend Sayaka Kanamori notices her genius and drive – and when it becomes clear that their classmate and charismatic fashion model Tsubame Mizusaki wants to be an animator – the energetic trio start an animation club. Together, the three aim to realize the "ultimate world" that exists in their minds, as they come to see the power that fiction and imagination have on their lives and the world around them.
With Sairi Ito, Mutsumi Tamura, Misato Matsuoka

Follows the rise of Tooru Muranishi, one of Japan's most notorious directors of adult video. Adapted from a biography of the man, this series depicts the character, his art, vision and his interactions with the approving and disapproving folk around him.
With Takayuki Yamada, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Misato Morita

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.
Dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi · With Erika Karata, Masahiro Higashide, Koji Seto