Ai Hashimoto

Ai Hashimoto
Ai Hashimoto
	Hashimoto at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2016
Born	January 12, 1996 (age 28); Kumamoto, Japan
Occupations	Actress; model; singer;
Years active	2008–present
Agent	Sony Music Artists
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)

Ai Hashimoto (橋本愛, Hashimoto Ai, born 12 January 1996) is a Japanese actress, fashion model and singer.

Life

Hashimoto was born in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture,^[1] the second of three daughters.^[2] In 2008, Hashimoto won the HUAHUA audition held by Newcome;^[3]^[4] her mother had chosen Hashimoto for the audition because she had the strongest facial complexion out of the three sisters.^[3]

In 2009, Hashimoto was selected as the youngest "Miss Seventeen" by fashion magazine Seventeen, alongside Emi Kudo, Arisa Takada and Alice Hirose, out of 5,267 applicants.^[5] The same year, she debuted as an actress in the movie Give and Go, portraying a deaf girl who is absorbed in basketball.^[2]

Hashimoto appeared in Confessions in 2010^[6] and starred in The Kirishima Thing in 2012,^[7] for which she won new face awards from the Japan Academy^[8] and Kinema Junpo.^[9] She also appeared as Sadako in Sadako 3D.^[10]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes	Ref.
2010	Give and Go	Natsuki	Hideto Mori	Lead role
2010	Confessions	Mizuki Kitahara	Tetsuya Nakashima
2011	Control Tower	Mizuho Takimoto	Takahiro Miki	Lead role
	A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip	Yoshiko	Ryūichi Honda
	Avatar	Michiko Abukumagawa	Atsushi Wada	Lead role
2012	The Kirishima Thing	Kasumi	Daihachi Yoshida
	Sadako 3D	Sadako	Tsutomu Hanabusa
	Until the Break of Dawn	Misa Arashi	Yūichirō Hirakawa
	Soup	Chiaki Nishimura	Yūkichi Ōtsuka
	Home: Itoshi no Zashiki Warashi	Azumi Takahashi	Seiji Izumi
	Blood-C: The Last Dark	Mana Hiiragi	Naoyoshi Shiotani	Voice role
	Another	Mei Misaki	Takeshi Furusawa	Lead role
	Bungo: Stories of Desire	Tomoyo	Kōsai Sekine	Lead role, segment Sushi
2013	Goodbye Debussy	Haruka Kōzuki	Gō Rijū	Lead role
	I'll Give It My All... Tomorrow	Suzuko Ōguro	Yūichi Fukuda
	Angel Home	Haruka Kunimura	Yukihiko Tsutsumi
2014	The World of Kanako	Morishita	Tetsuya Nakashima
	Little Forest: Summer & Autumn	Ichiko	Jun'ichi Mori	Lead role	^[11]
	Parasyte: Part 1	Satomi Murano	Takashi Yamazaki
	Adult Drop	Anne Irie	Ken Iizuka
2015	Little Forest: Winter & Spring	Ichiko	Jun'ichi Mori	Lead role	^[12]
	Wonderful World End	Shiori Hayano	Daigo Matsui	Lead role
	Parasyte: Part 2	Satomi Murano	Takashi Yamazaki
2016	The Shell Collector	Tsutako	Yoshifumi Tsubota
	Utsukushii Hito	Tōko	Isao Yukisada	Lead role
	The Inerasable	Ms. Kubo	Yoshihiro Nakamura
	Birthday Card	Noriko	Yasuhiro Yoshida	Lead role
	The Old Capital	Mai Sada	Yuki Saito
2017	A Beautiful Star	Akiko	Daihachi Yoshida
2017	Parks	Jun	Natsuki Seta	Lead role
2018	It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up	I	Ryūichi Hiroki	Lead role
2018	Oz Land	Yayoi Tamachi	Takafumi Hatano
2019	21st Century Girl		Hana Matsumoto	Lead role, anthology film
2020	Good-Bye	Keiko Mizuhara	Izuru Narushima
2020	Hold Me Back	Satsuki	Akiko Ōku		^[13]
2022	xxxHolic	Zashiki-warashi	Mika Ninagawa		^[14]
	To Every You I've Loved Before	Kazune Takigawa (voice)	Jun Matsumoto		^[15]
	To Me, the One Who Loved You	Kazune Takigawa (voice)	Ken'ichi Kasai		^[16]
2024	After the Fever	Sanae	Akira Yamamoto	Lead role	^[17]
2024	Happiness	Tsukiko Kunikida	Tetsuo Shinohara		^[18]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes	Ref.
2012	Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance	Hikaru Baba	Wowow
2013	Hard Nuts	Kurumi Nanba	NHK	Lead role
2013	Amachan	Yui Adachi	NHK	Asadora
2014	All About My Siblings	Kazumi Nagahara	Fuji TV
2018	Segodon	Suga	NHK	Taiga drama
2018	Dele	Yuriko	TV Asahi	Episode 5
2019	Idaten	Koume	NHK	Taiga drama	^[19]
	Nodoka no Niwa	Motoko Asahina	NHK	Lead role
	Our Dearest Sakura	Yuri	NTV
2020	Pareto's Miscalculation	Satomi Makino	Wowow	Lead role
2021	Sekai wo Kaeta Onnanoko	Ada Lovelace (voice)	NHK	Short drama	^[20]
2021	Reach Beyond the Blue Sky	Odaka Chiyo	NHK	Taiga drama	^[21]
2023	A Day-Off of Hana Sugisaki	Midori	Wowow	Episodes 5 and 6	^[22]

Video on demand

Year	Title	Role	Platform	Notes	Ref.
2023	The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House	Momoko	Netflix		^[23]

TV anime

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes	Ref.
2020	Natsunagu!	Natsuna Keyaki	Tokyo MX	Lead role	^[24]

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes	Ref.
2020–	Hashimoto Ai no Kokonishikanai Dokoka e	Host	MBS Radio		^[25]

Dubbing

The Flash (Kara Zor-El / Supergirl (Sasha Calle))^[26]

Discography

Awards

Year	Award ceremony	Award	Result	Ref.
2013	34th Yokohama Film Festival	Best Newcomer	Won
	86th Kinema Junpo Awards	Best New Actress	Won
	36th Japan Academy Film Prize	Newcomer of the Year	Won
2014	38th Elan d'or Awards	Newcomer of the Year	Won	^[27]
2018	72nd Mainichi Film Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Nominated	^[28]

References

External links

Official Site (in Japanese)
Ai Hashimoto at IMDb

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