Hiro is a Canadian short film, written and directed by Matthew Swanson and released in 2005. The film centres on Hiro (Hiro Kanagawa), a shy Japanese insect collector who finds himself thrust into a wild chase to recover a stolen beetle after a chance encounter with a young girl (Vicky Huang). The film's dialogue is in Japanese, although Swanson does not personally speak the language. Swanson described it as "liberating" to direct in a language he did not understand. The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.