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All but one of the 25 contestants have retired from their sports. The prize is 30 million yen (just over $200,000).
Story by Koji Uchida Anticipation for the live-action Netflix series "ONE PIECE" Season 2 reached a fever pitch at “ONE PIECE DAY’25,” the annual fan event held in Tokyo, as star Iñaki Godoy made his ...
A new series called Final Draft hit Netflix today [Tuesday, August 12], and it's a Japanese competition show. It puts ...
One Piece' has received an early Season 3 renewal by Netflix with a new co-showrunner, Ian Stokes, joining Joe Tracz. See ...
Shoplifters' star Mayu Matsuoka and 'Alice in Borderland's Riisa Naka will star in 'Plastic Beauty', a Japanese drama series ...
Riisa Naka and Mayu Matsuoka will star as rival surgeons in Netflix’s upcoming Japanese drama series “Plastic Beauty,” which takes viewers inside Japan’s cosmetic surgery industry. The 2026 series ...
Netflix aims to increase its appeal to Japanese filmmakers as the streaming giant engineers a pivot towards local production and feature movies, in particular. Theatrical releases of Netflix ...
In a boost to its Japanese content ambitions, Netflix has signed a five-year strategic partnership with The Seven, a production company subsidiary of Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings (TBS Holdings).
Rounding out the Korean selections is “The Murky Stream,” a period action drama set in late Joseon era directed by Choo Chang ...
Netflix has not disclosed its Japanese financial commitment to date, nor publicly set itself an investment target for the future, unlike South Korea, where at the beginning of the year it ...
In a world hungry for faster data—think AI training, quantum computing, 8K streaming, and massive cloud backups—Japan’s ...
Netflix Japan has a decent library of older English-language movies and children’s titles, but there are shockingly few new releases. By my count, there are only 20 non-Japanese films with a ...