Hairi Katagiri

Acting

Hairi Katagiri

Born 1963-01-18 · Ōta, Tokyo, Japan

Born in Tokyo, 1963. Graduated from Seikei University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Japanese Literature. Started acting while working part-time at the Ginza Bunka Cinema, movie theater. Since the 1980’s, she has broadened her appearances to include television and film but mainly on the stage. In recent years, she has appeared on many stage performances directed by Suzuki Matsuo and Shūji Onodera. In TV dramas she has many diverse roles including an “Ama-san” (Sea woman), a teacher, and a scientist. In addition to her acting, she still volunteers sometimes in Kineka Omori, a local movie theater, as a ticket taker. Her latest films are ”Kinema no Kamisama” (release date: August 6th, 2021) and "Koi no Manazashi" (release year: 2021).

Acting credits

Perfect Days poster
7.8

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

Perfect Days

2023

Shin Godzilla poster
7.2

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

Shin Godzilla

2016

Silence poster
7.1

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Silence

2016

Cutie Honey poster
6.3

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.

Cutie Honey

2004

Listen to the Universe poster
7.2

Four pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One is a new face and yet comes recommended.

Listen to the Universe

2019

Hachiko poster
7.8

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.

Hachiko

1987

8 ½ Women poster
5.5

After his wife dies, middle-aged businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight-and-a-half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. As a year passes, the women begin asserting their own power.

8 ½ Women

1999

R100 poster
5.7

Ruthless dominatrixes pursue a mild-mannered salesman who wants to get out of his unbreakable contract with a secret bondage club.

R100

2013

Kamome Diner poster
7.4

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.

Kamome Diner

2006

Goodbye to Our Kindergarten poster
7.7

One day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending their teachers and parents into a panic. The five of them are connecting on trains and headed to an unfamiliar place for some purpose.

Goodbye to Our Kindergarten

2011

Female poster
6.2

'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryuichi Hiroki, Miwa Nishikawa, and Suzuki Matsuo.

Female

2005

It's a Flickering Life poster
6.4

The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous actors. In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family.

It's a Flickering Life

2021

Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer poster
6.3

Graduating at the top of her class, elite detective candidate Jun Shibata is transferred to the section that handles cases deemed "unsolvable" by the department. Her partner, though a well-respected and experienced detective, has grown complacent after unsuccesfully pursuing these cases that many consider an exercise in futility. With her upper class breeding, her colleagues don't expect much from her either, but she suprises them all with her motivation and astounding powers of deduction. Well-constructed mysteries and colorful characters abound in this stylish and edgy police drama.

Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer

2000

AIBOU: CSI Files poster
8.3

Investigator Yonezawa is searching images from the Tokyo Big City Marathon, targeted for a terrorist bomb attack. Within the images he sees his former wife Kazuko, and the following day he learns that dead body that looks like her has been discovered.

AIBOU: CSI Files

2009

Otakus in Love poster
6.1

Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.

Otakus in Love

2004

Making of Cutie Honey poster
NR

Behind the scenes of the 2004 film "Cutie Honey". Extra on Blu-ray Box.

Making of Cutie Honey

2004

恋に唄えば♪ poster
9.0

A young department store worker discovers a magical lantern which contains the spirit of Tsuboi, a genie who has just one last chance to help someone on Earth.

恋に唄えば♪

2002

Tremble All You Want poster
7.0

Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming fixation has prevented her from even considering another candidate for boyfriend until an office colleague asks her out.

Tremble All You Want

2017

Maru poster
6.0

Sawada graduated from an art university but cannot rely on it to make a living and is working as an assistant to a famous contemporary artist. He lost his independent will and became accustomed to simply doing what he was told. One day, Sawada had an accident on the way to work and lost his job because of an arm injury. When he returned to the room, there was an ant on the floor. After drawing a circle as if guided by an ant, Sawada's daily life begins to be eroded by the circle.

Maru

2024

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso poster
9.0

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso

1989

Quartet for Two poster
8.0

Shotaro and Minako are arguing. Minako has confessed her infidelity to her husband and informs him of her intention to leave him. She has ceased to enjoy living with a submissive husband. Minako, who works for a construction company, loves her job and is progressing in her successful career, while her husband eagerly takes care of the house and the kids. He buys groceries, he cooks, he does the laundry – constantly. The couple’s arguing intensifies until Minaka files for divorce. Their older daughter Mari isn’t that upset by her parent’s problems as she’s more interested in the piano piece she’s got to play with her mother at a concert organised by her music school; admittedly, she’s also rather interested in her music teacher. But her younger brother Toru feels betrayed by his mother and can’t manage to reconcile himself to his father’s role as a housewife. A partial reconciliation occurs at Minako and Mari’s concert, where their entrance on stage is met with loud applause.

Quartet for Two

2001

A Farewell to Jinu poster
5.8

Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to a small village in the Tohoku region. There, he encounters residents who are not so easy.

A Farewell to Jinu

2015

Hold Me Back poster
6.4

Mitsuko Kuroda is 31 years old and single. She enjoys her life as a single woman. A big reason why she enjoys her single life is that she has counsellor "A" in her mind, which is her other self. Whenever she does not know what to do, "A" gives her the right answers. She believes her happy and peaceful single life with "A" will continue, but she falls in love with Tada-kun. He is a salesperson and younger than her.

Hold Me Back

2020

Our Meal for Tomorrow poster
6.0

A 7 year love story between Ryota Hayama and Koharu Uemura from their first date to eventual marriage. 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.

Our Meal for Tomorrow

2017