Overview

• Riisa Naka will portray celebrity plastic surgeon Rin Tohyama and Mayu Matsuoka will play general surgeon–turned–aesthetician Fumi Numata as they clash over differing medical ideals.
• The screenplay is penned by Junya Ikegami and direction is led by Yuki Saito, both of whom have collaborated on recent Netflix Japan projects.
• K2 Pictures is producing with Harue Miyake, Katsuhito Motegi and Shinichi Kudo forming the core producing and development team.
• The creative team conducted rigorous research into contemporary Japanese aesthetic medicine to ground storylines in authentic patient experiences and ethical dilemmas.
• Netflix positions Plastic Beauty within its Japan Originals strategy of probing contentious social industries after series such as The Naked Director and Tokyo Swindlers.