{"id":2015779,"date":"2025-09-12T03:18:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2015779"},"modified":"2025-09-12T03:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:18:39","slug":"netflix-boosts-japanese-slate-with-koji-yakusho-comedy-drama-did-someone-happen-to-mention-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/netflix-boosts-japanese-slate-with-koji-yakusho-comedy-drama-did-someone-happen-to-mention-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Boosts Japanese Slate with Koji Yakusho Comedy-Drama \u2018Did Someone Happen to Mention Me?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Netflix<\/a> continues to deepen its investments in live-action Japanese content, betting on the country\u2019s continued domestic growth potential and cross-border appeal. Friday marks the 10-year anniversary of the company\u2019s launch in the Japanese market, and the streamer unveiled a trio of buzzy local titles to mark the moment and build on its momentum.<\/p>\n

The new series include the comedy-drama Did Someone Happen to Mention Me?, starring Japanese screen icon Koji Yakusho<\/a>; Straight to Hell<\/a>, a dramatization of the life of celebrity fortune teller Kazuko Hosoki<\/a>; and JoJo\u2019s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run, the latest anime adaptation of Hirohiko Araki<\/a>\u2019s hit manga.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking ahead to the next decade, Netflix will continue to push boundaries and bring unforgettable entertainment from Japan to the world,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Did Someone Happen to Mention Me? is an original comedy drama from hitmaker Kankuro Kudo<\/a> (Netflix Japan breakouts…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Netflix continues to deepen its investments in live-action Japanese content, betting on the country\u2019s continued domestic growth potential and cross-border appeal. Friday marks the 10-year anniversary of the company\u2019s launch in the Japanese market, and the streamer unveiled a trio of buzzy local titles to mark the moment and build on its momentum. The new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2015780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2015779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Netflix-Boosts-Japanese-Slate-with-Koji-Yakusho-Comedy-Drama-\u2018Did-Someone.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}