{"id":277811,"date":"2020-12-05T10:25:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T15:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=277811"},"modified":"2020-12-05T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T15:25:16","slug":"netflix-announces-production-of-first-love-co-starring-hikari-mitsushima-and-takeru-satoh-in-the-first-ever-scripted-series-inspired-from-songs-by-hikaru-utada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/05\/netflix-announces-production-of-first-love-co-starring-hikari-mitsushima-and-takeru-satoh-in-the-first-ever-scripted-series-inspired-from-songs-by-hikaru-utada\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix announces production of ‘First Love’, co-starring Hikari Mitsushima and Takeru Satoh in the first ever scripted series inspired from songs by Hikaru Utada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The director and writer for the series will be Yuri Kanchiku, known for her work in not only scripted features, but also documentaries, scripted dramas and music videos since her debut in 2004. (File photo: Thibault Penin\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tokyo, Japan (December 2, 2020) – Netflix, the world\u2019s leading streaming entertainment service, will launch the Netflix original series\u00a0First Love<\/i><\/b>\u00a0in 2022.<\/p>\n

Developed and produced by Netflix, the scripted series was inspired by Hikaru Utada\u2019s seminal chart toppers \u201cFirst Love”(1999) and \u201cHatsukoi\u201d (2018), which were released nearly two decades apart. Utada, who debuted at the tender age of 16, instantly became one of the most popular singer-songwriters of her generation, and\u00a0First Love<\/i>\u00a0went on to become Japan\u2019s best-selling album of all time.<\/p>\n

An original love story,\u00a0First Love<\/i>\u00a0follows a young couple who meet their first love in the late 1990\u2019s, grow up in the 2000\u2019s, and ultimately lead up to the present day as they discover what had made their relationship unforgettable despite the twenty-something years that have passed. Hikari Mitsushima and Takeru Satoh are attached to co-star. Mitsushima, who is acclaimed for her subtle yet bold performances, will play Yae Noguchi, an aspiring flight attendant who finds out that fate has other plans for her when she is struck by a tragic accident in the midst of realizing her dreams. Satoh, who has demonstrated tremendous range in performances ranging from action to romance, will play the earnest Harumichi Namiki, who was at one time a pilot for the self-defense forces, but no longer pursuing that career path.<\/p>\n

The director and writer for the series will be Yuri Kanchiku, known for her work in not only scripted features, but also documentaries, scripted dramas and music videos since her debut in 2004.<\/p>\n

For Utada, who has written several songs for scripted dramas and films in the past, this will be the first ever scripted series directly inspired from her songs.<\/p>\n

First Love<\/i>\u00a0is scheduled to launch worldwide in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tokyo, Japan (December 2, 2020) – Netflix, the world\u2019s leading streaming entertainment service, will launch the Netflix original series\u00a0First Love\u00a0in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":277812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277813,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277811\/revisions\/277813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}