Model and actress Ai Hashimoto (14) has been given the starring role in a new movie titled "Avatar," directed by Atsushi Wada. The film has no relation to the popular 3D movie of the same name, but is instead a horror film in a school setting. ...In "Avatar," Hashimoto plays Michiko, the plainest student in her high school class. However, when she obtains a rare avatar on a social networking site called "Ava Q," the boundary between her real and online identities becomes blurred as she shapes her physical form to match the avatar, even receiving facial surgery. As she gains influence among her classmates, she begins committing crimes for the sake of the site's digital currency, going as far as committing murder. “Avatar” will be released by Uzumasa in Japan sometime in April 2011.