Subscribe to the New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Holidays! 15 “Hidden Masterpieces” of Emotions, Korean Wave and Reality Shows!

The drama “silent” (Fuji TV) is fresh in our memories as a big hit in 2010. Every time a new episode was aired, the drama would trend on SNS, and the total number of views of the missed broadcasts reached an all-time high of 46 million. A producer of a key station said, “It is no exaggeration to say that Reiwa is the age of video distribution.

Mega-hits such as “Squid Game” and “Crash Landing on You,” both from South Korea, have been created through distribution services. From Japan, “The Naked Director” and “Alice in Imaginary Land” were distributed worldwide and were highly acclaimed. Production costs and actors’ salaries are dozens of times higher for distributed productions than for terrestrial dramas. The cost of overseas productions is several hundred million yen. It is only natural that good productions are more likely to be produced than terrestrial drama productions, which are subject to the strictures of compliance.

Many of our readers will probably make their subscription distribution debut during this year-end and New Year holidays. However, “Netflix” and “Amazon Prime Video,” the two major video distribution services, alone offer nearly 20,000 titles.

Therefore, FRIDAY asked up-and-coming watchers to carefully select “hidden masterpieces” that will shake you to your heart’s content. We hope you will use them as a reference for your own moving experience.

From the January 6 and 13, 2023 issues of FRIDAY